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Plant Sensing & Communication

Product Description: The news that a flowering weed—mousear cress (Arabidopsis thaliana)—can sense the particular chewing noise of its most common caterpillar predator and adjust its chemical defenses in response led to headlines announcing the discovery of the first “hearing” plant...read more

By Richard Karban

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Hardcover:

9780226264677 | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 18, 2015, cover price $105.00

Paperback:

9780226264707 | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 30, 2015, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The news that a flowering weed—mousear cress (Arabidopsis thaliana)—can sense the particular chewing noise of its most common caterpillar predator and adjust its chemical defenses in response led to headlines announcing the discovery of the first “hearing” plant.

The Evolution of Insect Life Cycles

Product Description: This book was developed out of a symposium at the XVII International Congress of Entomology held in Hamburg, Germany, on August 21, 1984. This symposium was organized by Drs. William Bradshaw and Hugh Dingle, who subsequently asked us to edit the proceedings...read more

By Richard Karban (editor) and Fritz Taylor (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780387963495 | Springer Verlag, November 1, 1986, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: This book was developed out of a symposium at the XVII International Congress of Entomology held in Hamburg, Germany, on August 21, 1984.

Paperback:

9781461386681 | Reprint edition (Springer Verlag, July 1, 2012), cover price $119.00 | About this edition: This book was developed out of a symposium at the XVII International Congress of Entomology held in Hamburg, Germany, on August 21, 1984.

How to Do Ecology: A Concise Handbook

Product Description: Most ecology books and courses focus on the facts and the concepts. While these are essential, many young ecologists need to figure out how to actually do research themselves. How to Do Ecology provides nuts-and-bolts advice on how to develop a successful thesis and research program...read more

By Mikaela Huntzinger and Richard Karban

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Hardcover:

9780691125763 | Princeton Univ Pr, August 1, 2006, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Most ecology books and courses focus on the facts and the concepts.

Paperback:

9780691125770 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 31, 2006, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Most ecology books and courses focus on the facts and the concepts.

Induced Responses to Herbivory

Product Description: Plants face a daunting array of creatures that eat them, bore into them, and otherwise use virtually every plant part for food, shelter, or both. But although plants cannot flee from their attackers, they are far from defenseless...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Ian T. Baldwin and Richard Karban

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9780226424958 | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 27, 1997, cover price $72.00 | About this edition: Plants face a daunting array of creatures that eat them, bore into them, and otherwise use virtually every plant part for food, shelter, or both.

Paperback:

9780226424965 | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 1, 1997, cover price $34.00 | About this edition: Plants face a daunting array of creatures that eat them, bore into them, and otherwise use virtually every plant part for food, shelter, or both.

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