Reprint

Plant–Animal Interactions: Exploring Costs and Benefits in Highly Conditional Relationships

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October 2024
240 pages
  • ISBN978-3-7258-2160-0 (Hardback)
  • ISBN978-3-7258-2159-4 (PDF)
https://doi.org/10.3390/books978-3-7258-2159-4 (registering)

This is a Reprint of the Special Issue Plant–Animal Interactions: Exploring Costs and Benefits in Highly Conditional Relationships that was published in

Biology & Life Sciences
Environmental & Earth Sciences
Summary

Interactions between animals and plants exist on a spectrum that ranges from completely antagonistic relationships to those of obligatory mutualism, as seen in the pollination of certain tropical orchid species. In fact, these relationships are highly conditional and can change radically depending on variations in environmental conditions such as temperature, rainfall, and fluctuations in the populations of other interacting species. This Special Issue, entitled "Plant–Animal Interactions: Exploring Costs and Benefits of Highly Conditional Relationships", focuses on mutualistic interactions between animals and plants. It aims to provide a better understanding of ecological relationships by highlighting both the benefits and costs involved.

Format
  • Hardback
License and Copyright
© 2024 by the authors; CC BY-NC-ND license
Keywords
pollination ecology; exclusion cages; yield; seed set; integrated pest management; Asparagus; floral scent; volatile compounds; plant–pollinator interaction; flowering synchrony; gynodioecy; pollination; pollen; nectar; phenology; temporal partition; carotenoids; Colombia; forest; HPLC; plants; xanthophyll; mutualism; ant–plant interactions; Cerrado; tropical savanna; myrmecophily; Palicourea rigida; plant fitness; cerrado; pericarpial nectaries; extrafloral nectaries; Camponotus crassus; Ectatomma tuberculatum; ant–plant–herbivore interactions; chemical similarity; chemical strategy; cuticular hydrocarbons; multitrophic interaction; mutualism; Heteropoterys pteropetala; biotic defence; Cerrado; plant fitness; facultative mutualism; neutral effect; aposematic coloration; flower; herbivory; olfactory; poisonous plants; secondary metabolites; toxic nectar; ant-excluded plants; compatibility system; Dyckia; floral nectar; extrafloral nectar; fruit set; seed set; animal–plant mutualisms; flower damage; plant–animal interactions; floral visitors; plant fitness; protective mutualism; extrafloral nectar; costs and benefits; flower distraction hypothesis; pollination; ant–plant interaction; evolutionary ecology; Cerrado; herbivores; Bauhinia brevipes; plant-induced defense; plant performance; phenotypes; transgenerational success; brood-site pollination; mutualism; plant-insect interaction; reproductive strategy; wasp pollination; ant; epicuticular wax projections; Lasius niger; nectar thieving; running velocity; travelled distance; trichomes; visiting frequency; pollination; nectar robbing; Corydalis caseana; cheating; mutualism; bumble bees; foraging; nectar

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