Plant-provided food for carnivorous insects : a protective mutualism and its applications /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005. |
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| Description: | xii, 356 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5820106 |
Table of Contents:
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- 1. Food for protection: an introduction
- Part I. Food Provision by Plants
- 2. Suitability of (extra-)floral nectar, pollen, and honeydew as insect food sources
- 3. Nectar as fuel for plant protectors
- 4. Fitness consequences of food-for-protection strategies in plants
- Part II. Arthropods Feeding on Plant-Provided Food
- 5. Food needs of adult parasitoids: behavioral adaptations and consequences
- 6. Effects of plant feeding on the performance of omnivorous "predators"
- 7. Nectar- and pollen-feeding by adult herbivorous insects
- Part III. Plant-Provided Food and Biological Control
- 8. Impact of plant-provided food on herbivore-carnivore dynamics
- 9. Does floral nectar improve biological control by parasitoids?
- 10. Habitat diversification in biological control: the role of plant resources
- 11. Providing plant foods for natural enemies in farming systems: balancing practicalities and theory
- Index
