| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 216 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Introduction : The leaf and the pressures it faces -- Leaf colour patterning and leaf form -- Structural defences and specialised defence cells -- Chemical defences -- Inducible defences and the jasmonate pathway -- Top-down pressures and indirect defences -- Release and escape from herbivory -- 8. Escape in space : The cliff trees of Socotra -- Synthesis |
| Summary |
This title describes the natural history of leaf defence against both invertebrate and vertebrate attack, incorporating insights from the field and laboratory |
| Notes |
Plates placed within the chapters in online version (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed March 16, 2015) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-204) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Leaves.
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Plant defenses.
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Plant physiology.
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Plant Leaves
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Plant Physiological Phenomena
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leaf (plant material)
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Botany.
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Plant physiology
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Leaves
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Plant defenses
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Blatt
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Abwehrreaktion
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191779626 |
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0191779628 |
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9780191651199 |
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0191651192 |
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