Chemical War in Marine Animal Forests: Natural Products and Chemical Interactions

摘要: Forests are characterized by many different species living together, a high biodiversity, and kinds of relationships among them, resulting from an advanced degree mutual adaptations along evolution. Interactions occur both at interspecific intraspecific levels, including types, such as competition (for food, light, space, etc.), predation, fouling, parasitism, symbiosis, etc. Many organisms evolved to defend or protect themselves against all sort aggressive interactions. Reactions may include chemical, physical, and/or behavioral strategies. Chemical interactions very common in terrestrial forests, regulating these species. Natural products the molecules involved regulations usually consist secondary metabolites. In marine animal regulated just same way as in with sorts controlled natural compounds, but studying ecosystems is often challenging because cryptic, small, rare belong poorly known taxonomic groups. this chapter, chemical strategies commonly found forests reviewed, well how relevant they structuring functioning ecosystems. This chapter also shows biodiversity correlated diversity forests.