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| Dicke, M.. |
| Chemical cues that convey information are widely used by living organisms. The cues mediate interactions in food webs as well as non-trophic interactions such as interactions between conspecific organisms or between plants and natural enemies of herbivorous organisms. Communities are composed of food webs and each food web is overlaid with a reticulate infochemical web that is more complex than the underlying food web. Chemical ecology has addressed the role of information conveyance in intraspecific and interspecific interactions and has mostly concentrated on elucidating the identity of chemicals and their role in individual interactions of food webs. In addition, the role of infochemicals has been investigated in multitrophic interactions. Recently,... |
| Tipo: Conference proceedings |
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| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://library.wur.nl/ojs/index.php/frontis/article/view/1217 |
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| Takken, W.; Dicke, M.. |
| Chemical information conveyance is an important phenomenon in the biology of plants and animals. This involves intraspecific chemical communication and its exploitation by heterospecific organisms. As a result food webs are overlaid with information webs that can have important consequences for community processes. A vast amount of research shows that both the emission of chemical information and the responses to it are often genetically controlled, and mediated by numerous interactions between an individual and its environment. Overall, it is argued that ecosystem functioning is much dependent on the responses of various community members to chemical cues, and that therefore knowledge on the chemical communication, from the genetic level to the ecosystem,... |
| Tipo: Conference proceedings |
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| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://library.wur.nl/ojs/index.php/frontis/article/view/1206 |
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