The book features comparative perspectives on the field of chemical ecology, present and future, offered by scientists from a wide variety of disciplines. The scientists contributing to this book -biologists, ecologists, biochemists, chemists, biostatisticians – are interested in marine, freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems and work on life forms ranging from micro-organisms to mammals, including humans, living in areas from the tropics to polar regions.
Here, they cross their analyses of the present state of chemical ecology and its perspectives for the future. Those presented here include complex, multispecies communities and cover a wide range both of organisms and of the types of molecules that mediate the interactions between them. Up to now, no book has presented a solid scientific treatment of a wide range of examples. This book illustrates a diverse panel of the most advanced aspects of this rapidly expanding field.
Cuprins
1 – Introduction
2 -Biodiversity and chemical mediation
3 – Chemical Ecology, an Integrative and Experimental Science
4 – Odors in the social life of human and non-human primate societies
5 – Chemical Ecology and Microbiome
6 – From chemical ecology to ecogeochemistry
7 – Omics in chemical ecology
8 – Contributions of metabolomics in chemical ecology
10 – Chemistry for eco-inspired living
11 – Perspectives or the chemical ecology of tomorrow
Despre autor
Anne-Genevie Ive Bagnères is Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). Her scientific interests are chemical communication and the evolutionary ecology of insects and, more specifically, social insects. She is the leader of a group of more than 250 French researchers (Mediat EC) specialized in chemical ecology. She is a long-time member of the ISCE (International Society of Chemical Ecology).
Martine Hossaert-Mc Key is a senior scientist at CEFE-CNRS, and a Scientific Deputy Director of the CNRS-Institute Ecology Environment. A specialist in chemical ecology, she works on the intricate sets of co-evolved interactions between fig species, their species-specific pollinators, their parasites and seed-dispersers.
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