Leaf Defence /Edward E. Farmer.
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TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, (c)2014.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 216 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)Content type: - text
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- 9780191779626
- 9780191651199
- QK649 .L434 2014
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Plates placed within the chapters in online version (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed March 16, 2015).
Includes bibliographies and index.
This title describes the natural history of leaf defence against both invertebrate and vertebrate attack, incorporating insights from the field and laboratory.
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Introduction : The leaf and the pressures it faces -- Leaf colour patterning and leaf form -- Structural defences and specialised defence cells -- Chemical defences -- Inducible defences and the jasmonate pathway -- Top-down pressures and indirect defences -- Release and escape from herbivory -- 8. Escape in space : The cliff trees of Socotra -- Synthesis.
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