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Chemical Biology of the Tropics

An Interdisciplinary Approach

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Editors:
  1. Jorge M. Vivanco

    1. Center for Rhizosphere Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA

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  2. Tiffany Weir

    1. Center for Rhizosphere Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA

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  • Leading tropical ecologists, geneticists, microbiologists, biochemists, and others discuss the newest developments in the emerging field of tropical chemical biology.
  • Introduces new interdisciplinary concept.
  • International experts present the state-of-the-art knowledge in their fields and write about how the rich biodiverse setting of the Amazon Rainforest could provide for a natural laboratory to put that technology into action.

Part of the book series: Signaling and Communication in Plants (SIGCOMM, volume 8)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Biodiversity

    • Emily Wortman-Wunder, Jorge Vivanco, Mark W. Paschke
    Pages 1-14

  3. Chemical Ecology: Definition and Famous Examples

    • Emily Wortman-Wunder, Jorge M. Vivanco
    Pages 15-26

  4. Chemical Defenses of Insects: A Rich Resource for Chemical Biology in the Tropics

    • Aaron T. Dossey
    Pages 27-57

  5. Defensive Behaviors in Leaf Beetles: From the Unusual to the Weird

    • Caroline S. Chaboo
    Pages 59-69

  6. Microbes: A New Frontier in Tropical Chemical Biology

    • Tiffany Weir, Daniel Manter, Waltraud Kofer
    Pages 71-86

  7. Out on a Limb: True Confessions of a Bug Detective

    • Margaret D. Lowman
    Pages 87-96

  8. So, You Want to Do Research in the Rainforest?

    • Arthur S. Edison, Eric Cosio, Stephan Halloy, Jorge Vivanco
    Pages 97-111

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 113-115
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About this book

The mystique of the rainforest has captured the imaginations of generations of young people, explorers, authors, and biologists. It is a delicate ecosystem whose myriad sounds and smells, whose vibrancy of life, is balanced by constant cycles of death and decay. It is a place of fierce competition where unusual partnerships are forged and creative survival strategies are the norm. In this book, you will meet the scientific pioneers who first attempted to quantify and understand the vast diversity of these tropical forests, as well as their successors, who utilize modern tools and technologies to dissect the chemical nature of rainforest interactions.

This book provides a general background on biodiversity and the study of chemical ecology before moving into specific chemical examples of insect defenses and microbial communication. It finishes with first-hand accounts of the trials and tribulations of a canopy biology pioneer and a rainforest research novice, while assessing the state of modern tropical research, its importance to humanity, and the ecological, political, and ethical issues that need to be tackled in order to move the field forward.

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“This recent work in Springer’s ‘Signaling and Communication in Plants’ series originated with an expedition of laboratory scientists to Peru’s Tambopata National Reserve. … The result is a mixture of general review articles together with some firsthand descriptions of the pleasures and perils of tropical research. … should be required reading for graduate students in tropical biology. … Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers/faculty.” (B. E. Fleury, Choice, Vol. 49 (6), February, 2012)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Center for Rhizosphere Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA

    Jorge M. Vivanco, Tiffany Weir

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Chemical Biology of the Tropics

  • Book Subtitle: An Interdisciplinary Approach

  • Editors: Jorge M. Vivanco, Tiffany Weir

  • Series Title: Signaling and Communication in Plants

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19080-3

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-19079-7Published: 06 May 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-26806-9Published: 15 July 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-19080-3Published: 28 April 2011

  • Series ISSN: 1867-9048

  • Series E-ISSN: 1867-9056

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 118

  • Topics: Plant Biochemistry, Plant Ecology, Plant Sciences

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