Plant-Provided Food for Carnivorous Insects: A Protective Mutualism and its Applications [Hardcover]

This book, first published in 2005, addresses food-mediated interactions, focusing on how plants employ foods to recruit arthropod 'bodyguards' as a protection against herbivores.Within a carnivore's lifecycle there is often at least one stage that relies on plant-provided food e.g. nectar. In fact carnivore omnivory is far more common than first thought. Written by an international team of experts, this book is a topical commentary set to influence thought on plant defence-theory and evolution, and agricultural practice. Amongst other topics it suggests that presence, or lack of, plant-provided foods for carnivores could determine the success or failure of agricultural ecosystems using Integrated Pest Management systems that rely on predators as biological control agents.Within a carnivore's lifecycle there is often at least one stage that relies on plant-provided food e.g. nectar. In fact carnivore omnivory is far more common than first thought. Written by an international team of experts, this book is a topical commentary set to influence thought on plant defence-theory and evolution, and agricultural practice. Amongst other topics it suggests that presence, or lack of, plant-provided foods for carnivores could determine the success or failure of agricultural ecosystems using Integrated Pest Management systems that rely on predators as biological control agents.Within a carnivore's lifecycle, there is often at least one stage that relies on plant-provided food, e.g., nectar. In fact, carnivore omnivory is far more common than first thought. Contributed by an international team of experts, this book suggests, among other ideas, that presence, or lack of, plant-provided foods for carnivores could determine the success or failure of agricultural ecosystems using Integrated Pest Management systems relying on predators as biological control agents.1. Food for protection: an introduction F. L. W?ckers and P. C. J. van Rijn; Part I. Food Provision by Plants: 2. Suitabill#`