Herbivores: An Introduction

by Lohith Thakor

ISBN: 9789371703437
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Imprint : Agri Horti Press
Year : 2026
Price : Rs. 7960.00
Biblio : viii+172p., figs., tbls., 25cm

About The Book

This book examines individual, population, species, and community responses of herbivores to plant variation, with emphasis on insects, fungi, bacteria, and viruses. It explores the variability as a mechanism of defense used by plants against their parasites and the effects of variability on herbivores at several different levels of complexity. It examines interplant variation, the co-evolutionary problems it poses for herbivores, and the ecological and evolutionary responses of these animals and discusses the effects of host-plant variability on the fitness of sedentary herbivorous insects. This book targets a wide audience of general biologists as well as botanists, ecologists, and zoologists including both teachers and students in gaining a better appreciation of this rapidly growing field.