Evolutionary Ecology of Plant-Herbivore Interaction

Front Matter ....Pages i-xix
 Introduction: Evolutionary Ecology of Plant-Herbivore Interactions  (Juan Núñez-Farfán, Pedro Luis Valverde)....Pages 1-11
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 Role of Trichomes in Plant Stress Biology  (Jasleen Kaur, Rupesh Kariyat)....Pages 15-35
 Resource Allocation and Defence Against Herbivores in Wild and Model Plants  (Germán Avila-Sakar)....Pages 37-61
 Toward a Unifying Quest for an Understanding of Tolerance Mechanisms to Herbivore Damage and Its Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics  (Iván Darío Camargo)....Pages 63-86
 Natural Selection of Plant Defense Against Herbivores in Native and Non-native Ranges  (Juan Núñez-Farfán, Pedro Luis Valverde)....Pages 87-105
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 Herbivory in Cacti: Fitness Effects of Two Herbivores, One Tending Ant on Myrtillocactus geometrizans (Cactaceae)  (Alicia Callejas-Chavero, Diana Martínez-Hernández, Arturo Flores-Martínez, Alejandra Moncada-Orellana, Yahveh Diaz-Quiñones, Carlos Fabián Vargas-Mendoza)....Pages 109-134
 The Extended Microbiota: How Microbes Shape Plant-Insect Interactions  (Zyanya Mayoral-Peña, Roberto Álvarez-Martínez, Juan Fornoni, Etzel Garrido)....Pages 135-146
 Ecosystem Engineering by Insect Herbivores: Non-trophic Interactions in Terrestrial Ecosystems  (Nancy Calderón-Cortés)....Pages 147-172
 Sex-Biased Herbivory and Its Effects on Tritrophic Interactions  (Araceli Romero-Pérez, Sandra Gómez-Acevedo, Zenón Cano-Santana, Johnattan Hernández-Cumplido)....Pages 173-189
 Functional Plant Traits and Plant-Herbivore Interactions  (Betsabé Ruiz-Guerra, Noé Velázquez-Rosas, Cecilia Díaz-Castelazo, Roger Guevara)....Pages 191-207
 Natural Herbivore Regulation in Tropical Agroecosystems: Importance of Farming Practices and Landscape Structure  (Ana M. Flores-Gutiérrez, Ek del-Val)....Pages 209-225
 Disruption of Plant-Herbivore Interactions in Light of the Current Defaunation Crisis  (Rodolfo Dirzo, Roger Guevara, Eduardo Mendoza)....Pages 227-246
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 The Role of Enemies in Bare and Edaphically Challenging Environments  (N. Ivalú Cacho, Patrick J. McIntyre)....Pages 249-267
 Evolution Among Weevils and Their Host Plants: Interaction Between the Genera Trichobaris Le Conte and Datura L.  (Marisol De-la-Mora Curiel)....Pages 269-276
 The Evolution and Diversification of Neotropical Generalist Herbivores: The Evolutionary History of the Grasshopper Genus Sphenarium Charpentier, 1842  (Salomón Sanabria-Urbán, Raúl Cueva del Castillo)....Pages 277-292
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 What Do We Know About the Genetic Basis of Plant Defensive Responses to Herbivores? A Minireview  (Ivan Mijail De-la-Cruz, Sabina Velázquez-Márquez, Juan Núñez-Farfán)....Pages 295-314
 Ecological Genomics of Plant-Insect Interactions: The Case of Wasp-Induced Galls  (Eunice Kariñho Betancourt, Paulina Hernández Soto, Nancy Calderón Cortés, Martha Rendón Anaya, Alfredo Herrera Estrella, Ken Oyama)....Pages 315-341
 Latitudinal and Elevational Gradients in Plant Defences and Herbivory in Temperate Trees: Recent Findings, Underlying Drivers, and the Use of Genomic Tools for Uncovering Clinal Evolution  (Diego Carmona, Xoaquín Moreira, Luis Abdala-Roberts)....Pages 343-368
Back Matter ....Pages 369-376