Secret Weapons: Defenses of Insects, Spiders, Scorpions, and Other Many-Legged Creatures

By T. Eisner, M. Eisner, M. Siegler. 2005

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Legacy of top-down herbivore pressure ricochets back up multiple trophic levels in forest canopies over 30 years (2011, background): “Black cherry is more chemically defended than is pin cherry (Burns and Hankala 1990, Eisner and Siegler 2005).”
The chemical defenses of millipedes (diplopoda): Biochemistry, physiology and ecology (2015, methodology): “Popular accounts of several species were provided by Eisner et al. (2005), and Demange (1993) produced a summary in French.”
Predators as drivers of insect defenses (2020, background): “Although the antipredator defense mechanisms of insects are well-studied (e.g. Edmunds 1974; Ruxton et al. 2004; Eisner et al. 2005), relatively few studies have focused on which predator types evoke these types of defenses.”
Trait matching and phylogeny as predictors of predator–prey interactions involving ground beetles (2018, background): “Furthermore, it is highly probable that unrealized interactions could be better predicted by including traits that reflect prey defence strategies, such as mucus secretion by slugs (Pakarinen 1994), fast jumping ability of springtails (Bauer & Kredler 1993) and deterrent chemical compounds (Eisner e”
Feeding by lepidopteran larvae is dangerous: A review of caterpillars’ chemical, physiological, morphological, and behavioral defenses against natural enemies (2012, background): “…may act as defensive mechanisms (reviewed by Edmunds, 1974; DeVries, 1987; Evans and Schmidt, 1991; Gross, 1993; Godfray, 1994; Dyer, 1995; Eisner et al., 2007), and these are generally divided into two categories: A) caterpillar integumental processes, such as spines or hairs; or B)…”
Aposematic (Warning) Coloration in Plants (2009, unknown): “Unpalatable caterpillars with stinging and irritating hairs, functional osmeteria or body-fluid toxins often advertise their presence by aposematic coloration and aggregation (Cott 1940 ; Bowers 1993 ; Eisner et al. 2005) .”
Behavioural defences of anurans: an overview (2011, background): “Taxa-restricted reviews on animal defensive behaviours have been published on invertebrates, mostly insects (e.g. EVANS & SCHMIDT 1990; EISNER 2005), although such reviews are also available for fishes (RANDALL 2005; ZACCONE et al.”