Plant Galls of Europe (3-Volume Set) Keys to Plant Galls (Zoo- and Phytocecidia) of Central- and Northern Europe

About this book

This book is based on Herbert Buhr's seminal keys of 1964-1965 (Bestimmungstabellen der Gallen (Zoo- und Phytocecidien) an Pflanzen Mittel- und Nordeuropas) and augmented with Houard's 1908-1913 work on Southern Europe (Les Zoocécidies des Plantes d’Europe et du Bassin de la Méditerranée). The authors have updated this with the research of a new generation of cecidologists, significantly expanding our knowledge of plant galls and their distribution. The 9,000 galls and malformations described by Buhr and Houard have been updated and 1,250 new galls described in more recent literature have been added. The nomenclature of both gall inducers and host plants has been updated, information about specific groups of gall inducers has been reviewed, and new insights have been added by a team of specialists. Moreover, they collected distribution data for the whole of Europe and, where available, adjacent areas.

Contents

VOLUME I
- Preface IX
- Explanation of symbols and abbreviations IX
- General notes XIII
- Herbert Buhr 1902–1968 XIV
- Clodomir Houard 1873–1943 XV
- Introduction XVII
- Host-parasite associations XIX
- Host-parasite associations of generalist gallers XIX
- Host-parasite associations of specialist gallers XXI
- Keys according to host plant genus Abies – Myrrhis 1

VOLUME II
- Preface IX
- Explanation of symbols and abbreviations IX
-  Keys according to host plant genus Narcissus – Zygophyllum 935

VOLUME III
- Preface IX
- Explanation of symbols and abbreviations IX
- References 1779
- Index to gall inducers 2049
- Plates 2137

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Biography

Johannes C. Roskam is associate professor emeritus in Evolutionary Biology at Leiden University, The Netherlands. His PhD covered a biosystematic analysis of associations among birches, gall midges and their parasitoids. Earlier he revised W.M. Docters van Leeuwen Gallenboek (Plant Galls) 4th edition, 2009.