Aimed primarily at advanced graduate students and professional biologists, this book explores the degree to which animalb1plant interactions are determined by plant and animal variability. Many of the patterns seen in natural communities appear to result from cascading effects up as well as down the trophic system. Variability among primary producers can influence animal and plant population quality and dynamics, community structure, and the evolution of animalb1plant interations.

Researchers and graduate students in animal population biology, and evolutionary, community, and theoretical ecology.