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The Phytochemical Landscape - Linking Trophic Interactions and Nutrient Dynamics (Hardcover)
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The Phytochemical Landscape - Linking Trophic Interactions and Nutrient Dynamics (Hardcover)
Series: Monographs in Population Biology
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The dazzling variation in plant chemistry is a primary mediator of
trophic interactions, including herbivory, predation, parasitism,
and disease. At the same time, such interactions feed back to
influence spatial and temporal variation in the chemistry of
plants. In this book, Mark Hunter provides a novel approach to
linking the trophic interactions of organisms with the cycling of
nutrients in ecosystems. Hunter introduces the concept of the
"phytochemical landscape"--the shifting spatial and temporal mosaic
of plant chemistry that serves as the nexus between trophic
interactions and nutrient dynamics. He shows how plant chemistry is
both a cause and consequence of trophic interactions, and how it
also mediates ecosystem processes such as nutrient cycling.
Nutrients and organic molecules in plant tissues affect
decomposition rates and the fluxes of elements such as carbon,
nitrogen, and phosphorus. The availability of these same nutrients
influences the chemistry of cells and tissues that plants produce.
In combination, these feedback routes generate pathways by which
trophic interactions influence nutrient dynamics and vice versa,
mediated through plant chemistry. Hunter provides evidence from
terrestrial and aquatic systems for each of these pathways, and
describes how a focus on the phytochemical landscape enables us to
better understand and manage the ecosystems in which we live.
Essential reading for students and researchers alike, this book
offers an integrated approach to population-, community-, and
ecosystem-level ecological processes.
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