Ecological Modelling Applied to Entomology (eBook)

Contents1. Insects and the Ecological Basis for Mathematical Modelling1.1 Introduction 1.2 Insects and their evolutionary strategies1.3 Insects and the climate changes1.4 Insects and their responses1.5 Insects and the numbers1.6 Insects and their interactions1.7 Insects and the models1.8 This book1.9 References2. Demographic processes in spatially structured host-parasitoid systems2.1 Introduction2.2 Modelling host-parasitoid dynamics with spatial structure2.3 Resources quality, frequency and duration2.4 Foraging and reproductive strategies3. Abiotic effects on population dynamics of mosquitoes and their influenceon dengue transmission3.1 Introduction3.2 Mosquito population dynamics3.3 Dengue transmission3.4 Results3.5 Conclusions4. Modelling the implications of temperature on the life cycle of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes4.1 Introduction4.2 Theory from mathematical model4.3 Results and Discussion4.4 Conclusions5. Predictive modelling of insect metacommunities in biomonitoring of aquatic networks5.1 Introduction5.2 Simulating insect metacommunities in networks under punctual anthropogenic impacts5.3 Results5.4 Implications for biomonitoring6. Modeling trophic interactions in insect population dynamics6.1 Introduction6.2 Continuous time modeling of food web dynamics6.3 Continuous time modeling in biological control and Integrated Pest Management6.4 Discrete time modeling of predation between immature stages 6.5 Final considerations7. Coupled Map Lattice Model for insects and spreadable substances7.1 Introduction7.2 The spatial structure and the movement rules7.3 The model for insects that only have local perception abilities7.4 The Model for Quasi-Local Perception Insects7.5 Discussion and final remarks8. Computational Methods for Accurate Evaluation of Pest Insect Population Size8.1 Introduction8.2 Theory of numerical integration8.3 The coarse grid problem8.4 Numerical integration in ecological problems8.5 Highly aggregated density distributions8.6 Evaluating pest abundance on irregular grids8.7 Concluding remarks9. Models for over dispersed data in entomology9.1 Introduction9.2 Models for proportion data9.3 Models for count data9.4 Discussion