Methods to ensure the health of crops owe their efficacy to the extent to which we understand the ecology and biology of environmental microorganisms and the conditions under which their interactions with plants lead to losses in crop quality or yield. However, in the pursuit of this knowledge, notions of the ecology of plant-pathogenic microorganisms have been reduced to a plant-centric and ag...

1Behavioural Ecology Group, Department of Systematic Zoology and Ecology Eötvös Loránd University, H-1117 Budapest, Pázmány Péter s. 1/c, Hungary E-mails: [email protected], [email protected] 2Lendület Evolutionary Ecology Research Group, Plant Protection Institute, Centre for Agricultural Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-1022 Budapest, Herman Ottó út 15, Hungary; E-mail: he...

Eelke Jongejans*, Linda D. Jorritsma-Wienk, Ute Becker, Petr Dostál, Mikael Mildén and Hans de Kroon Department of Experimental Plant Ecology, Radboud University Nijmegen, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Department of Biology, Plant Ecology, University of Marburg, Karl-von-Frisch-Strasse 8, D-35032 Marburg, Germany; Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Re...

Simon A. Queenborough1,*, Margaret R. Metz2, Renato Valencia3 and S. Joseph Wright4 Department of Evolution, Ecology & Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA, Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA, Laboratory of Plant Ecology, School of Biological Sciences, Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador and Smith...

Marcel P. Haesler, Charlotte M. Lindeyer, Oliver Otti, Danielle Bonfils, Dik Heg, and Michael Taborsky Division of Behavioural Ecology, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Wohlenstrasse 50a, CH-3032 Hinterkappelen, Switzerland, Division of Aquatic Ecology and Macroevolution, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Baltzerstrasse 6, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland, ...

a LARSyS, University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal b MarSensing Lda, Faro, Portugal c Marine Plant Ecology Research Group, Center of Marine Sciences (CCMar), University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal d Laboratory of Oceanology MARE Centre, University of Liège, Belgium e Department of Plant Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel f Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockhol...

Many authors assert that plants exhibit complex behaviours which are analogous to animal behaviour. However, plant ecologists rarely root these studies in a conceptual foundation as fertile as that used by animal behaviourists. Here we adapt the optimality principles that facilitated numerous advances in the study of animal foraging behaviour to create one possible framework for plant foraging ...