Insect Ecology: An Ecosystem Approach, Fifth Edition provides the most updated and comprehensive knowledge of the diversity of insect responses to environmental changes and their effects on ecosystem properties and services.
Written by an expert in the field, this book addresses ways in which insect morphology, physiology and behavior tailor their adaptation to particular environmental conditions, how those adaptations affect their responses to environmental changes, and how their responses affect ecosystem properties and the ecosystem services on which humans depend for survival. This edition also addresses recent reports of global declines in insect abundance and how these declines could affect human interests.
Insect Ecology: An Ecosystem Approach, Fifth Edition is an important resource for researchers, entomologists, ecologists, pest managers and conservationists who want to understand insect ecology and to manage insects in ways that sustain the delivery of ecosystem services. Graduate and advanced undergraduate students may also find this as a useful resource for entomology and specifically insect ecology courses.
1. Insect Ecology - p. i 2. Cover - p. i 3. Title Page - p. i 4. Copyright - p. iv 5. Table of Contents - p. iv 6. Preface - p. xi 7. Chapter 1 Overview - p. 1 8. Chapter 2 Responses to abiotic conditions - p. 29 9. Chapter 3 Resource acquisition - p. 93 10. Chapter 4 Resource allocation - p. 163 11. Chapter 5 Population systems - p. 211 12. Chapter 6 Population dynamics - p. 257 13. Chapter 7 Biogeography - p. 305 14. Chapter 8 Species interactions - p. 349 15. Chapter 9 Community structure - p. 411 16. Chapter 10 Community dynamics - p. 463 17. Chapter 11 Ecosystem structure and function - p. 519 18. Chapter 12 Herbivory - p. 567 19. Chapter 13 Pollination, seed predation, and seed dispersal - p. 623 20. Chapter 14 Decomposition and pedogenesis - p. 667 21. Chapter 15 Insects as regulators of ecosystem processes - p. 715 22. Chapter 16 Sustaining ecosystem services - p. 753 23. Chapter 17 Managing insect populations - p. 799 24. Chapter 18 Summary and synthesis - p. 851 25. Author Index - p. 865 26. Author Index - Continued - p. 873 27. Author Index - Continued - p. 880 28. Author Index - Continued - p. 886 29. Taxonomic Index (Arthropods only) - p. 893 30. Subject Index - p. 901 31. Subject Index - Continued - p. 915
Insect Ecology: An Ecosystem Approach, Fifth Edition provides the most updated and comprehensive knowledge of the diversity of insect responses to environmental changes and their effects on ecosystem properties and services.
Written by an expert in the field, this book addresses ways in which insect morphology, physiology and behavior tailor their adaptation to particular environmental conditions, how those adaptations affect their responses to environmental changes, and how their responses affect ecosystem properties and the ecosystem services on which humans depend for survival. This edition also addresses recent reports of global declines in insect abundance and how these declines could affect human interests.
Insect Ecology: An Ecosystem Approach, Fifth Edition is an important resource for researchers, entomologists, ecologists, pest managers and conservationists who want to understand insect ecology and to manage insects in ways that sustain the delivery of ecosystem services. Graduate and advanced undergraduate students may also find this as a useful resource for entomology and specifically insect ecology courses.
1. Insect Ecology - p. i 2. Cover - p. i 3. Title Page - p. i 4. Copyright - p. iv 5. Table of Contents - p. iv 6. Preface - p. xi 7. Chapter 1 Overview - p. 1 8. Chapter 2 Responses to abiotic conditions - p. 29 9. Chapter 3 Resource acquisition - p. 93 10. Chapter 4 Resource allocation - p. 163 11. Chapter 5 Population systems - p. 211 12. Chapter 6 Population dynamics - p. 257 13. Chapter 7 Biogeography - p. 305 14. Chapter 8 Species interactions - p. 349 15. Chapter 9 Community structure - p. 411 16. Chapter 10 Community dynamics - p. 463 17. Chapter 11 Ecosystem structure and function - p. 519 18. Chapter 12 Herbivory - p. 567 19. Chapter 13 Pollination, seed predation, and seed dispersal - p. 623 20. Chapter 14 Decomposition and pedogenesis - p. 667 21. Chapter 15 Insects as regulators of ecosystem processes - p. 715 22. Chapter 16 Sustaining ecosystem services - p. 753 23. Chapter 17 Managing insect populations - p. 799 24. Chapter 18 Summary and synthesis - p. 851 25. Author Index - p. 865 26. Author Index - Continued - p. 873 27. Author Index - Continued - p. 880 28. Author Index - Continued - p. 886 29. Taxonomic Index (Arthropods only) - p. 893 30. Subject Index - p. 901 31. Subject Index - Continued - p. 915
