Trait-mediated indirect interactions : ecological and evolutionary perspectives /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Ohgushi, Takayuki, Schmitz, Oswald J., Holt, Robert D.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Series:Ecological reviews.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • Part I. Community:
  • 2. Perspective: kinds of trait-mediated indirect effects in ecological communities: a synthesis
  • 3. Consequences of trait changes in host-parasitoid interactions in insect communities
  • 4. The impact of trait-mediated indirect interactions in marine communities
  • 5. Trait-mediated indirect interactions in size-structured populations: causes and consequences for species interactions and community dynamics
  • 6. Trait-mediated effects, density dependence, and the dynamic stability of ecological systems
  • 7. Plant effects on herbivore-enemy interactions in natural systems
  • 8. The implications of adaptive prey behavior for ecological communities: a review of current theory
  • 9. Community consequences of phenotypic plasticity of terrestrial plants: herbivore-initiated bottom-up trophic cascades
  • 10. Model-based, response surface approaches to quantifying indirect interactions
  • Part II. Coevolution:
  • 11. Perspective: trait-mediated indirect interactions and the coevolutionary process
  • 12. Evolutionary indirect effects: examples from introduced plant and herbivore interactions
  • 13. Indirect evolutionary interactions in a multi-trophic system
  • 14. The role of trait-mediated indirect interactions for multispecies plant-animal mutualisms
  • 15. Consequences of trait evolution in a multi-species system
  • Part III. Ecosystem:
  • 16. Perspective: interspecific indirect genetic effects (IIGEs): linking genetics and genomics to community ecology and ecosystem processes
  • 17. Species functional traits, trophic control, and the ecosystem consequences of adaptive foraging in the middle of food chains
  • 18. Effects of herbivores on terrestrial ecosystem processes: the role of trait mediated indirect effects
  • 19. Functional and heritable consequences of plant genotype on community composition and ecosystem processes
  • 20. Microbial mutualists and biodiversity in ecosystems
  • 21. Integrating trait-mediated effects and non-trophic interactions in the study of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
  • Part IV. Applied Ecology:
  • 22. Perspective: consequences of trait-mediated indirect interactions for biological control of plant pests
  • 23. Natural enemy functional identity, trait-mediated interactions, and biological control
  • 24. Trait-mediated effects modify patch-size density relationships in insect herbivores and parasitoids
  • 25. Plasticity and trait-mediated indirect interactions among plants
  • 26. Climate change, phenology, and the nature of consumer-resource interactions: advancing the match/mismatch hypothesis.