| Description |
viii, 216 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-204) and index. |
| Contents |
1. Introduction: The leaf and the pressures it faces -- 2. Leaf colour patterning and leaf form -- 3. Structural defences and specialised defence cells -- 4. Chemical defences -- 5. Inducible defences and the jasmonate pathway -- 6. Top-down pressures and indirect defences -- 7. Release and escape from herbivory -- 8. Escape in space : The cliff trees of Socotra |
| Language |
Text in English. |
| Subject |
Leaves.
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Leaves. |
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Plant defenses.
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Plant defenses. |
| ISBN |
0199671443 |
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9780199671441 |
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