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Chemical Ecology: From Gene to Ecosystem 2006 Edition
Contributor(s): Dicke, Marcel (Editor), Takken, Willem (Editor)
ISBN: 1402047924     ISBN-13: 9781402047923
Publisher: Springer
OUR PRICE:   $208.99  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: July 2006
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BISAC Categories:
- Science | Life Sciences - Botany
- Science | Life Sciences - Ecology
- Social Science | Anthropology - Physical
Dewey: 573.929
LCCN: 2007451263
Series: Wageningen UR Frontis
Physical Information: 0.42" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.63 lbs) 192 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Ecology
 
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Chemical ecology is the ecology of body odour. Every organism uses chemical information in intra- and inter-specific interactions. Animals emit chemicals to attract a mate or to prevent a competitor from mating with the partner they just mated with. Plants emit chemicals to recruit other organisms to take care of their sex life or to attract bodyguards to defend them against their enemies. Chemical cues mediate a whole gamut of interactions in plant and animal communities. Chemical cues are used to communicate, but can also be exploited in espionage or eavesdropping. To understand the ecology of chemical signalling in communities one needs to carry out manipulative experiments. Such experiments have been done throughout the last century. However, in recent years the degree of precision with which such experiments can be done has grown tremendously as a result of rapidly increasing knowledge at the molecular-genetic level. This opens exciting new avenues to chemical ecologists. The connection of molecular genetics to community ecology and ecosystem ecology provides novel tools to take up old questions that were often hard to answer. This book provides an overview of chemical ecology related to different ecosystems and an outlook at novel directions that can be taken in chemical ecology through a molecular-ecological or eco-genomic approach. The book addresses above- and belowground terrestrial systems as well as aquatic systems, and the organisms involved are micro- and macro-organisms, such as plants, arthropods and mammals. The scientific approach presented in this book is characteristic of modern biological research. The book will be useful for scientists and students interested in ecology in general as well as those working in the fields of molecular, chemical, behavioural, population or community ecology.