Mechanisms of Woody Plant Defenses Against Insects: Search for Pattern

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Defensive Strategies of Woody Plants Against Different Insect-Feeding Guilds in Relation to Plant Ecological Strategies and Intimacy of Association with Insects....Pages 3-38
Towards a Unified Theory of Plant Defense....Pages 39-55
Defensive Responses of Trees in Relation to Their Carbon/Nutrient Balance....Pages 57-72
Growth Differentiation-Balance Relationships in Pines Affect Their Resistance to Bark Beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytidae)....Pages 73-92
Seasonal Variations in Energy Sources and Biosynthesis of Terpenes in Maritime Pine....Pages 93-116
Terpene Biosynthesis Under Pathological Conditions....Pages 117-130
Resistance of Plants at the Population Level to Attack by Phytophagous Insects....Pages 131-137
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
Induced Defenses in Ponderosa Pine Against Defoliating Insects....Pages 141-155
Changes in Levels of Foliar Minerals and Phenolics in Trembling Aspen, Populus tremuloides , in Response to Artificial Defoliation....Pages 157-169
The Role of Resin Acids in the Relationship Between Scots Pine and the Sawfly, Diprion pini (Hymenoptera: Diprionidae). I.—Resin Acids in the Needles....Pages 171-187
The Role of Resin Acids in the Relationship Between Scots Pine and the Sawfly, Diprion Pini (Hymenoptera: Diprionidae). II.—Correlations with the Biology of Diprion pini ....Pages 189-201
Variations in Nutrient Levels as a Defense: Indentifying Key Nutritional Traits of Host Plants of the Western Spruce Budworm....Pages 203-213
Phenological Resistance of Oaks to the Green Oak Leafroller, Tortrix viridana (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)....Pages 215-226
Wound Response of Living Bark of Scots Pine Seedlings and Its Influence on Feeding by the Weevil, Hylobius abietis ....Pages 227-235
Front Matter....Pages 237-237
Interactions Between the Leaf Miner, Phyllocnistis suffusella , and Poplars....Pages 239-251
A Resistance Response of Picea excelsa to the Aphid, (Homoptera: Aphidoidea) Adelges abietis ....Pages 253-266
Variations in Susceptibility of Pinus pinaster to Matsucoccus feytaudi ....Pages 267-275
Beech Resistance to the Beech Scale: A Variety of Defenses....Pages 277-293
Resistance Mechanisms of Loblolly and Shortleaf Pines to Southern Pine Beetle Attack....Pages 295-304
Wound-Induced Oleoresins of Abies concolor : Is It Part of Host Resistance to the Fir Engraver, Scolytus ventralis? ....Pages 305-312
Front Matter....Pages 237-237
Elicitation of Defensive Reactions in Conifers....Pages 313-319
Do Fungi Influence the Establishment of Bark Beetles in Scots Pine?....Pages 321-334
The Toxicity of Norway Spruce Monoterpenes to Two Bark Beetle Species and Their Associates....Pages 335-344
Traumatized Hosts: Their Influence on the Population Dynamics of the Southern Pine Bark Beetle Guild....Pages 345-358
The Role of Spruce Monoterpene Derivatives as Oviposition Stimuli for Rhizophagus grandis , a Predator of the Bark Beetle, Dendroctonus micans ....Pages 359-368
Host Orientation Behavior of Dendroctonus ponderosae : Integration of Token Stimuli Host and Defenses....Pages 369-390
Investigating the Hypothesis of Primary Attraction in Conifer-Specific Scolytidae Using a Chemometrical Approach....Pages 391-409
Back Matter....Pages 411-416