The Evolutionary Ecology of Plant Disease

Gregory Gilbert, Presidential Chair for Integral Ecology and Environmental Justice, Department of Environmental Studies and Rachel Carson College, University of California Santa Cruz, USA,Ingrid Parker, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, USA

Gregory S. Gilbert is Professor of Environmental Studies, University of California Santa Cruz, USA. He holds the Robert Headley Presidential Chair for Integral Ecology and Environmental Justice at Rachel Carson College, Director of the UCSC Forest Ecology Research Plot, and is a Research Associate at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama.

Ingrid M. Parker is Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, USA. She is a plant evolutionary ecologist, and her research interests include plant disease ecology, the invasion of non-native species, the evolution of domestication, ecological restoration, and plant conservation.

Part 1: Plant Pathogens and Disease
1. Thinking like a plant disease ecologist
2. How to be a plant
3. How to be a fungus
4. How to be an oomycete
5. How to be a bacterium
6. How to be a virus
7. How to be a macroparasite
8. Types of disease
Part 2: Evolutionary Ecology of Plant-Pathogen Symbioses
9. How to do plant disease ecology
10. The population ecology of plant disease
11. Spatial ecology
12. Physiology and genetics
13. Evolution
14. Community ecology
15. The plant microbiome
16. Global change
17. Disease management
Epilogue