Ecological Relationships of Plants and Animals

"This book would make an excellent supplementary text for an undergraduate ecology course. H.F. Howe and L.C. Westley set out to create a college-level text covering the ever-growing literature on the ecological and evolutionary consequences of plant-animal interactions. Drawing upon their own considerable expertise and the most recent publications, they have created not only an admirable introduction to the subject, but a well-balanced and extensive review of the current state of the art in this field" --BioScience "Howe and Westley have done a service to those of us who want to convey to undergraduates some of the richness of ideas and results on the evolutionary ecology of interactions between plants and animals." --The Quarterly Review of Biology "A cogent explanation of scientific methods for testing hypothesis in ecology, including literature reviews, observation, and experimentation. Good examples from existing literature fill the book. . . .I recommend this textbook to supplement general ecology courses or to support a seminar on plant-animal interactions." --Science Books and Films "A compactly written introductory text for a subject that is sorely neglected by many standard texts in ecology. . . . This book will certainly help to redress a serious imbalance in the undergraduate ecology curriculum, and represents one of the most rapidly developing areas in the field." --American Scientist "Ecologists who would like to see the literature on plant-animal interactions transformed into a useful reference text will welcome the arrival of Ecological Relationships of Plants and Animals by Henry Howe and Lynn Westley. Their book presents an interesting synthesis of the empirical research on herbivory and three types of plant-animal nonsymbiotic mutualisms. The book's strength is its ecological focus, although it also discusses the evolutionary relationships between plants and animals. . . .a first-rate resource on the ecology of terrestrial plant-animal interactions." --Ecology