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Leaf Defence /

This title describes the natural history of leaf defence against both invertebrate and vertebrate attack, incorporating insights from the field and laboratory.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Farmer, Edward E. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : The leaf and the pressures it faces
  • Leaf colour patterning and leaf form
  • Structural defences and specialised defence cells
  • Chemical defences
  • Inducible defences and the jasmonate pathway
  • Top-down pressures and indirect defences
  • Release and escape from herbivory
  • 8. Escape in space : The cliff trees of Socotra
  • Synthesis.