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Carnivorous plants: physiology, ecology, and evolution
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication Date
2018.
Language
English
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From the Book - First edition.
Part I. Overview
1. Introduction / Aaron M. Ellison and Lubomír Adamec
2. Biogeography and habitats of carnivorous plants / J. Stephen Brewer and Jan Schlauer
3. Evolution of carnivory in angiosperms / Andreas Fleischmann, Jan Schlauer, Stephen A. Smith, and Thomas J. Givnish
Part II. Systematics and evolution of carnivorous plants
4. Systematics and evolution of Droseraceae / Andreas Fleischmann, Adam T. Cross, Robert Gibson, Paulo M. Gonella, and Kingsley W. Dixon
5. Systematics and evolution of Nepenthes / Charles Clarke, Jan Schlauer, Jonathan Moran, and Alastair Robinson
6. Systematics and evolution of Lentibulariaceae. I. Pinguicula / Andreas Fleischmann and Aymeric Roccia
7. Systematics and evolution of Lentibulariaceae. II. Genlisea / Andreas Fleischmann
8. Systematics and evolution of Lentibulariaceae. III. Utricularia / Richard W. Jobson, Paulo C. Baleeiro, and Cástor Guisande
9. Systematics and evolution of Sarraceniaceae / Robert F.C. Naczi
10. Systematics and evolution of small genera of carnivorous plants / Adam T. Cross, Maria Paniw, André Vito Scatigna, Nick Kalfas, Bruce Anderson, Thomas J. Givnish, and Andreas Fleischmann
11. Carnivorous plant genomes / Tanya Renner, Tianying Lan, Kimberly M. Farr, Enrique Ibarra-Laclette, Luis Herrera-Estrella, Stephan C. Schuster, Mitsuyasu Hasebe, Kenji Fukushima, and Victor A. Albert
Part III. Physiology, form, and function
12. Attraction of prey / John D. Horner, Bartosz J. Plachno, Ulrike Bauer, and Bruno Di Giusto
13. Functional anatomy of carnivorous traps / Bartosz J. Plachno and Lyudmila E. Muravnik
14. Motile traps / Simon Poppinga, Ulrike Bauer, Thomas Speck, and Alexander G. Volkov
15. Non-motile traps / Ulrike Bauer, Reinhard Jetter, and Simon Poppinga
6. Biochemistry of prey digestion and nutrient absorption / Ildikó Matušiková, Andrej Pavlovic, and Tanya Renner
17. Mineral nutrition of terrestrial carnivorous plants / Lubomír Adamec and Andrej Pavlovic
18. Why are plants carnivorous? Cost-benefit analysis, whole-plant growth, and the context-specific advantages of botanical carnivory / Thomas J. Givnish, K. William Sparks, Steven J. Hunter, and Andrej Pavlovic
19. Ecophysiology of aquatic carnivorous plants / Lubomír Adamec
20. Biotechnology with carnivorous plants / Laurent Legendre and Douglas W. Darnowski
Part IV. Ecology
21. Prey selection and specialization by carnivorous plants / Douglas W. Darnowski, Ulrike Bauer, Marcos Méndez, John D. Horner, and Bartosz J. Plachno
22. Reproductive biology and prey-pollinator conflicts / Adam T. Cross, Arthur R. Davis, Andreas Fleischmann, John D. Horner, Andreas Jürgens, David J. Merritt, Gillian L. Murza, and Shane R. Turner
23. Commensals of Nepenthes pitchers / Leonora S. Bittleston
24. Pitcher-plant communities as model systems for addressing fundamental questions in ecology and evolution / Thomas E. Miller, William E. Bradshaw, and Christina M. Holzapfel
25. The Utricularia-associated microbiome: composition, function, and ecology / Dagmara Sirová, Jirí Bárta, Jakub Borovec, and Jaroslav Vrba
26. Nutritional mutualisms of Nepenthes and Roridula / Jonathan A. Moran, Bruce Anderson, Lijin Chin, Melinda Greenwood, and Charles Clarke
Part V. The future of carnivorous plants
27. Conservation of carnivorous plants / Charles Clarke, Adam Ross, and Barry Rice
28. Estimating the exposure of carnivorous plants to rapid climatic change / Matthew C. Fitzpatrick and Aaron M. Ellison
29. The future of research with carnivorous plants / Aaron M. Ellison and Lubomír Adamec.
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