Overview
- Written by a team of leading researchers
- Discusses the enormous advances in the field over the past twenty years
- Examines topics from the basic structures of plant-animal interactions to their implications in generating and maintaining biodiversity
- Includes an overview and also highlights innovative aspects of plant-animal interactions
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Kleber Del-Claro holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biology, and an MSc and PhD in Ecology from Universidade Estadual de Campinas. He is currently a Full Professor at Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU). His research interests include ecology in biotic interactions, behavioral ecology and ecological networks. He was the coordinator of the graduate program in Ecology at UFU; member of the Whitney Harris World Ecology Center (Scientific board), University of Missouri St. Louis (UMSL), USA; coodinator the terms of agreement for cooperations at UFU-UMSL and UFU-BOKU (University of Natural Resources of Vieen). He is the editor of Tropical Biology for the Encyclopedia of Life System Support (UNESCO). He was Director of the Biology Institute from 2013 to 2017 and Research Director at the UFU from 2017 to 2020. A researcher at the Brazilian National Scientific Council - highest level - 1A.
Helena Maura Torezan-Silingardi has been an Associate Professor at the Biology Institute/UFU since 2009. Her Master's, PhD and PostDoc degrees focused on the field of Ecology of Pollination, Florivory and Phenology in the cerrado/Brazilian savannah. She holds a postdoctoral degree in Plant-Animal Interactions from UFU; PhD in Entomology from USP, Master’s in Ecology and Conservation of Natural Resources from UFU and Bachelor’s in Biology from Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas. She works in the areas of ecology of pollination, phenology, floral herbivory and insect-plant interactions. She is involved in the graduate programs in "Ecology and Conservation of Natural Resources" and "Plant Biology" at the Federal University of Uberlândia. She participated in the production of the books "Ecology of Plant-Animal Interactions: an ecological-evolutionary approach"; "Ethology 2011: Current Issues in Ethology and Annals of the XXIX Annual Meeting of Ethology" and "Current Issues in Behavioral Ecology and Interactions - Annals of II Behavioral Ecology and Conservation Symposium (2017)". She also Coordinates terms of agreement for cooperation: UFU-BOKU (University of Natural Resources of Vieen).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Plant-Animal Interactions
Book Subtitle: Source of Biodiversity
Editors: Kleber Del-Claro, Helena Maura Torezan-Silingardi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66877-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-66876-1Published: 04 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-66879-2Published: 04 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-66877-8Published: 03 May 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 357
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 51 illustrations in colour
Topics: Biodiversity, Entomology, Plant Ecology, Community & Population Ecology