Chemical signals mediate all aspects of insects' lives and their
ecological interactions. The discipline of chemical ecology seeks
to unravel these interactions by identifying and defining the
chemicals involved, and documenting how perception of these
chemical mediators modifies behaviour and ultimately reproductive
success. Chapters in this 2004 volume consider how plants use
chemicals to defend themselves from insect herbivores; the
complexity of floral odors that mediate insect pollination;
tritrophic interactions of plants, herbivores, and parasitoids and
the chemical cues that parasitoids use to find their herbivore
hosts; the semiochemically mediated behaviours of mites; pheromone
communication in spiders and cockroaches; the ecological dependency
of tiger moths on the chemistry of their host-plants; and the
selective forces that shape the pheromone communication channel of
moths. The volume presents descriptions of the chemicals involved,
the effects of semiochemically mediated interactions on
reproductive success, and the evolutionary pathways that have
shaped the chemical ecology of arthropods.
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