Mechanisms of Woody Plant Defenses Against Insects

Chapter 1 Defensive Strategies of Woody Plants Against Different Insect-Feeding Guilds in Relation to Plant Ecological Strategies and Intimacy of Association with Insects

Chapter 2 Towards a Unified Theory of Plant Defense

Chapter 3 Defensive Responses of Trees in Relation to Their Carbon/Nutrient Balance

Chapter 4 Growth Differentiation-Balance Relationships in Pines Affect Their Resistance to Bark Beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytidae)

Chapter 5 Seasonal Variations in Energy Sources and Biosynthesis of Terpenes in Maritime Pine

Chapter 6 Terpene Biosynthesis Under Pathological Conditions

Chapter 7 Resistance of Plants at the Population Level to Attack by Phytophagous Insects

Chapter 8 Induced Defenses in Ponderosa Pine Against Defoliating Insects

Chapter 9 Changes in Levels of Foliar Minerals and Phenolics in Trembling Aspen, Populus tremuloides , in Response to Artificial Defoliation

Chapter 10 The Role of Resin Acids in the Relationship Between Scots Pine and the Sawfly, Diprion pini (Hymenoptera: Diprionidae). I.—Resin Acids in the Needles

Chapter 11 The Role of Resin Acids in the Relationship Between Scots Pine and the Sawfly, Diprion Pini (Hymenoptera: Diprionidae). II.—Correlations with the Biology of Diprion pini

Chapter 12 Variations in Nutrient Levels as a Defense: Indentifying Key Nutritional Traits of Host Plants of the Western Spruce Budworm

Chapter 13 Phenological Resistance of Oaks to the Green Oak Leafroller, Tortrix viridana (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)

Chapter 14 Wound Response of Living Bark of Scots Pine Seedlings and Its Influence on Feeding by the Weevil, Hylobius abietis

Chapter 15 Interactions Between the Leaf Miner, Phyllocnistis suffusella , and Poplars

Chapter 16 A Resistance Response of Picea excelsa to the Aphid, (Homoptera: Aphidoidea) Adelges abietis

Chapter 17 Variations in Susceptibility of Pinus pinaster to Matsucoccus feytaudi

Chapter 18 Beech Resistance to the Beech Scale: A Variety of Defenses

Chapter 19 Resistance Mechanisms of Loblolly and Shortleaf Pines to Southern Pine Beetle Attack

Chapter 20 Wound-Induced Oleoresins of Abies concolor : Is It Part of Host Resistance to the Fir Engraver, Scolytus ventralis?

Chapter 21 Elicitation of Defensive Reactions in Conifers

Chapter 22 Do Fungi Influence the Establishment of Bark Beetles in Scots Pine?

Chapter 23 The Toxicity of Norway Spruce Monoterpenes to Two Bark Beetle Species and Their Associates

Chapter 24 Traumatized Hosts: Their Influence on the Population Dynamics of the Southern Pine Bark Beetle Guild

Chapter 25 The Role of Spruce Monoterpene Derivatives as Oviposition Stimuli for Rhizophagus grandis , a Predator of the Bark Beetle, Dendroctonus micans

Chapter 26 Host Orientation Behavior of Dendroctonus ponderosae : Integration of Token Stimuli Host and Defenses

Chapter 27 Investigating the Hypothesis of Primary Attraction in Conifer-Specific Scolytidae Using a Chemometrical Approach