Pests, Pathogens, and Plant Communities

Overviews: Pests, pathogens and plant communities: an introduction Limitations on insect herbivore abundance in natural vegetation Dynamics of plant-pathogen interactions in natural plant communities Demographic interactions between plant and parasite populations: Effects of insect herbivory on herbaceous plants Spartina and the ergot fungus Claviceps purpurea - a singular contest? Modification of the effects of plant pathogens by other components of natural ecosystems Effects of atmospheric pollutants on intercations between insects and their food plants Insects, endophytic fungi and plants Spatial patterns of damping-off disease during seedling recruitment in tropical forests Two case studies: the pine beauty moth and the bird cherry aphid Plant diseases in natural populations of the wild barley (Hordeum spontaneum) Genetic interactions between plant and parasite populations: Genetic interactions between Senecio vulgaris and the powdery mildew fungus Erysiphe fischeri Resistance to Bremia lactuacae (downey mildew) in British populations of Latuca serriola (prickly lettuce) Toxic and nutritive substances as plant defence mechanisms against invertebrate herbivores The spatial scale of genetic interactions in host-pathogen coevolved systems Coevolution and the evolutionary genetics of interactions between plants and insects and pathogens Long term consequences of host-parasite interactions: Insect herbivory and its effect on plant succession The unexpected element: mycovirus involvement in the outcome of two recent epidemics, Dutch elm and chestnut blight Population biology and population genetics of plant-pathogen associations.