Table of Contents for Tollrian, R. and Harvell, C.D., eds.: The Ecology and Evolution of Inducible Defenses.

The Ecology and Evolution of Inducible Defenses
Edited by Ralph Tollrian & C. Drew Harvell

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Why Inducible Defenses? 3
1 Coping with Life as a Menu Option: Inducible Defenses of the Wild Parsnip 10
2 Adaptive Status of Localized and Systemic Defense Responses in Plants 33
3 Why Induced Defenses May Be Favored over Constitutive Strategies in Plants 45
4 Evolution of Induced Indirect Defense of Plants 62
5 Consumer-Induced Changes in Phytoplankton: Inducibility, Costs, Benefits, and the Impact on Grazers 89
6 The Immune System as an Inducible Defense 104
7 Kairomone-Induced Morphological Defenses in Rotifers 127
8 Predator-Induced Defenses in Ciliated Protozoa 142
9 Ecology and Evolution of Predator-Induced Behavior of Zooplankton: Depth Selection Behavior and Diel Vertical Migration 160
10 Inducible Defenses in Cladocera: Constraints, Costs, and Multipredator Environments 177
11 Predator-Induced Defense in Crucian Carp 203
12 Density-Dependent Consequences of Induced Behavior 218
13 Complex Biotic Environments, Coloniality, and Heritable Variation for Inducible Defenses 231
14 Developmental Strategies in Spatially Variable Environments: Barnacle Shell Dimorphism and Strategic Models of Selection 245
15 Evolution of Forager Responses to Inducible Defenses 259
16 Evolution of Reversible Plastic Responses: Inducible Defenses and Environmental Tolerance 286
17 The Evolution of Inducible Defenses: Current Ideas 306
References 323
Index 377