Insect Ecology
Academic Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-12-381351-0 (ISBN)
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The third edition of Insect Ecology: An Ecosystem Approach provides a modern perspective of insect ecology that integrates two approaches traditionally used to study insect ecology: evolutionary and ecosystem. This integration substantially broadens the scope of insect ecology and contributes to prediction and resolution of the effects of current environmental changes, as these affect and are affected by insects. The third edition includes an updated and expanded synthesis of feedback and interactions between insects and their environment. This updated material and a new chapter on applications of insect ecology to social and environmental issues effectively demonstrates how evolutionary and ecosystem approaches complement each other, with the intent of stimulating further integration of these approaches in experiments that address insect roles in ecosystems. Effective management of ecosystem resources depends on evaluation of the complex, often complementary, effects of insects on ecosystem conditions, as well as insect responses to changing conditions.
Timothy D. Schowalter received his Ph.D. degree in Entomology from the University of Georgia in 1979. He is currently a Professor of Entomology at Louisiana State University, where he also served as the department head until 2015. Previously, he was a professor of entomology at Oregon State University, Corvallis. Dr. Schowalter served as Program Director for Integrative and Theoretical Ecology at the National Science Foundation, where he was involved in developing global change and terrestrial ecosystem research initiatives at the federal level. He also served as a U.S. delegate to international conventions to develop collaboration between U.S. Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites and long-term sites in Hungary and East Asia and the Pacific.
Chapter 1. Overview
SECTION I: Ecology of Individual Insects
Chapter 2. Responses to Abiotic Conditions
Chapter 3. Resource Acquisition
Chapter 4. Resource Allocation
SECTION II: Population Ecology
Chapter 5. Population Systems
Chapter 6. Population Dynamics
Chapter 7. Biogeography
SECTION III: Community Ecology
Chapter 8. Species Interactions
Chapter 9. Community Structure
Chapter 10. Community Dynamics
SECTION IV: Ecosystem Level
Chapter 11. Ecosystem Structure and Function
Chapter 12. Herbivory
Chapter 13. Pollination, Seed Predation and Seed Dispersal
Chapter 14. Decomposition and Pedogenesis
Chapter 15. Insects as Regulators of Ecosystem Processes
Section V. Applications and Synthesis
Chapter 16. Applications
Chapter 17. Synthesis
| Verlagsort | San Diego |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 191 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 1770 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-12-381351-4 / 0123813514 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-12-381351-0 / 9780123813510 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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