Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. List of Contributors ix
5. Why Inducible Defenses? 1
6. 1 Coping with Life as a Menu Option: Inducible Defenses of the Wild Parsnip 10
7. 2 Adaptive Status of Localized and Systemic Defense Responses in Plants 33
8. 3 Why Induced Defenses May Be Favored Over Constitutive Strategies in Plants 45
9. 4 Evolution of Induced Indirect Defense of Plants 62
10. 5 Consumer-Induced Changes in Phytoplankton: Inducibility, Costs, Benefits, and the Impact on Grazers 89
11. 6 The Immune System as an Inducible Defense 104
12. 7 Kairomone-Induced Morphological Defenses in Rotifers 127
13. 8 Predator-Induced Defenses in Ciliated Protozoa 142
14. 9 Ecology and Evolution of Predator-Induced Behavior of Zooplankton: Depth Selection Behavior and Diel Vertical Migration 160
15. 10 Inducible Defenses in Cladocera: Constraints, Costs, and Multipredator Environments 177
16. 11 Predator-Induced Defense in Crucian Carp 203
17. 12 Density-Dependent Consequences of Induced Behavior 218
18. 13 Complex Biotic Environments, Coloniality, and Heritable Variation for Inducible Defenses 231
19. 14 Developmental Strategies in Spatially Variable Environments: Barnacle Shell Dimorphism and Strategic Models of Selection 245
20. 15 Evolution of Forager Responses to Inducible Defenses 259
21. 16 Evolution of Reversible Plastic Responses: Inducible Defenses and Environmental Tolerance 286
22. 17 The Evolution of Inducible Defenses: Current Ideas 306
23. References 323
24. Index 377