The Phytochemical Landscape (eBook)

Linking Trophic Interactions and Nutrient Dynamics

Mark D. Hunter (Autor)

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2016
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
9781400881208 (ISBN)

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Mark D. Hunter is the Henry A. Gleason Collegiate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan. His books include Ecology of Insects: Concepts and Applications.

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The dazzling variation in plant chemistry is a primary mediator of trophic interactions, including herbivory, predation, parasitism, and disease. At the same time, such interactions feed back to influence spatial and temporal variation in the chemistry of plants. In this book, Mark Hunter provides a novel approach to linking the trophic interactions of organisms with the cycling of nutrients in ecosystems.Hunter introduces the concept of the "e;phytochemical landscape"e;-the shifting spatial and temporal mosaic of plant chemistry that serves as the nexus between trophic interactions and nutrient dynamics. He shows how plant chemistry is both a cause and consequence of trophic interactions, and how it also mediates ecosystem processes such as nutrient cycling. Nutrients and organic molecules in plant tissues affect decomposition rates and the fluxes of elements such as carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus. The availability of these same nutrients influences the chemistry of cells and tissues that plants produce. In combination, these feedback routes generate pathways by which trophic interactions influence nutrient dynamics and vice versa, mediated through plant chemistry. Hunter provides evidence from terrestrial and aquatic systems for each of these pathways, and describes how a focus on the phytochemical landscape enables us to better understand and manage the ecosystems in which we live.Essential reading for students and researchers alike, this book offers an integrated approach to population-, community-, and ecosystem-level ecological processes.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.8.2016
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• Zusatzinfo: 99 line illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Botanik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Schlagworte: Abiotic component • algae • algal bloom • Alkaloid • Amino acid • apex predator • aphid • Aquatic ecosystem • Autotroph • Bacteria • biodiversity • Biogeochemical cycle • Biological interaction • Biomass (ecology) • Biome • Brown Algae • Carbohydrate • carnivore • Cellulose • Chemical defense • Copepod • cyanobacteria • Decomposer • Detritivore • Detritus • Diatom • Digestion • Dimethylsulfoniopropionate • dinoflagellate • domoic acid • Ecological Stoichiometry • Ecology • ecosystem • Enzyme • eutrophication • Evolution • Fertilizer • Flora • Food Chain • food web • foraging • fungus • Glucosinolate • Grassland • grazing • Green algae • Herbivore • Immobilization (soil science) • Lignin • macrophyte • Meta-analysis • Metabolism • Microcystin • Microorganism • Molecule • Mutualism (biology) • Nematode • nitrogen • nutrient • nutrient cycle • nutrient pollution • organic compound • palatability • parasitism • Parasitoid • pathogen • Phenotype • Phenotypic plasticity • Phlorotannin • photosynthesis • Phycotoxin • Phytochemical • phytochemistry • Phytoplankton • plant community • Plant litter • population dynamics • predation • primary producers • Primary production • Prochlorococcus • Red Algae • rhizosphere • Root • salt marsh • saxitoxin • seagrass • seawater • secondary metabolite • Sediment • Shrub • Soil • Starch • stoichiometry • Subsidy • tannin • Terrestrial ecosystem • trophic cascade • Trophic level • Zooplankton
• ISBN-13: 9781400881208 / 9781400881208