Continuing our weekly selection of the very best titles available through NHBS:
Plant-Animal Communication
by H. Martin Schaefer and Graeme D. Ruxton
What?
A summary of all the latest research on this poorly understood but significant area of ecological and evolutionary research. 
Why?
The literature on the subject is wide-ranging and of interest to a diverse section of the scientific community, and here Schaefer and Ruxton provide a much-needed synthesis of the latest research in sensory ecology, plant physiology, evolution and the behavioural sciences as applicable to plant-animal communication.
Table of Contents
Preface
- Communication and the Evolution of Plant-Animal Interactions
- Animal Sensory Ecology and Plant Biochemistry
- Animals as Seed Dispersers
- Visual Communication in Fleshy Fruits
- Evolutionary Ecology of Non-Visual Fruit Traits
- Flower Signals and Pollination
- The Potential for Leaf Colouration to Communicate to Animals
- Plant Crypsis, Aposematism, and Mimicry
- Chemical Communication by Plants about Herbivores Sensory Aspects of Carnivorous Plants
- Final Thoughts
Glossary
References
Index
Who?
H. Martin Schaefer is Associate Professor in Evolutionary Biology and Ecology at the University of Freiburg. His main research interests are the sensory ecology of plant-animal interactions in the three fields covered in this book, seed dispersal, plant defence and carnivory.
Graeme D. Ruxton is Professor of Theoretical Ecology at the University of Glasgow. His main research interests are in sensory ecology and how one species can exploit the senses of another.
