Interrelationship Between Insects and PlantsOne of the world's most insightful writers on the subject brings together an array of important and readable information on the ways in which insects and plants coexist in nature. Interrelationship Between Insects and Plants is a rare and expansive look at the intertwining of these two vastly different species. Its aim is to summarize in a simple and understandable way the basis of food selection among insects, and to review the various sides of their relationships with plants. |
Contents
A brief and simple review of plantarthropod relationships | 1 |
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22227 | 32 |
Relationships between insects and fungi | 55 |
Physiology of food selection | 71 |
Carnivorous and protocarnivorous plants | 101 |
Myrmecophily and antplants | 123 |
epizoic symbiosis | 143 |
Natural weed control in the Holarctic region | 167 |
Pollination | 173 |
Coevolution or not between insects and plants | 201 |
A general review of insectplant relationships | 209 |
Epilogue | 217 |
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Galls and mines | 151 |
Insect mimicry and homochromy in relation to plants | 161 |
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