Insect Ecology
An Ecosystem Approach
- 4th Edition - July 29, 2016
- Author: Timothy D. Schowalter
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 3 0 3 3 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 3 0 3 7 - 0
Insect Ecology: An Ecosystem Approach, Fourth Edition, follows a hierarchical organization that begins with relatively easy-to-understand chapters on adaptive responses of insect… Read more
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Request a sales quoteInsect Ecology: An Ecosystem Approach, Fourth Edition, follows a hierarchical organization that begins with relatively easy-to-understand chapters on adaptive responses of insect populations to various environmental changes, disturbances, and anthropogenic activities, how insects find food and habitat resources, and how insects allocate available energy and nutrients.
Chapters build on fundamental information to show how insect populations respond to changing environmental conditions, including spatial and temporal distribution of food and habitat. The next section integrates populations of interacting species within communities and how these interactions determine structure of communities over time and space.
Other works in insect ecology stop there, essentially limiting presentation of insect ecology to evolutionary responses of insects to their environment, including the activities of other species. The unique aspect of this book is its four chapters on ecosystem structure and function, and how herbivores, pollinators, seed predators, and detritivores drive ecosystem dynamics and contribute to ecosystem stability.
- Provides the most advanced synthesis of insect ecology, with updated material throughout and new chapters
- Presents the roles of insects in delivery of ecosystem services and applications to pest management and conservation
- Features full coverage of ecosystem structure and function balanced with essential background on evolutionary aspects
- Includes case studies highlighting practical and theoretical applications for topics covered in each chapter
Professional entomologists, ecologists and others with interest in how insects engineer our global ecosystem, as well as how they respond to environmental changes. Graduate Insect Ecology courses. Reviewers of previous editions also have recommended it for undergraduate Insect Ecology students
Chapter 1: Overview
- Abstract
- 1. Scope of insect ecology
- 2. Ecosystem ecology
- 3. Environmental change and disturbance
- 4. Ecosystem approach to insect ecology
- 5. Scope of this book
Section I: Ecology of individual insects
Introduction
Chapter 2: Responses to Abiotic Conditions
- Abstract
- Introduction
Chapter 3: Resource Acquisition
- Abstract
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Resource quality
- 3. Resource acceptability
- 4. Resource availability
- 5. Summary
Chapter 4: Resource Allocation
- Abstract
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Resource budget
- 3. Allocation of assimilated resources
- 4. Efficiency of resource use
- 5. Summary
Section II: Population ecology
Introduction
Chapter 5: Population Systems
- Abstract
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Population structure
- 3. Population Processes
- 4. Life history characteristics
- 5. Parameter estimation
- 6. Summary
Chapter 6: Population Dynamics
- Abstract
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Population fluctuation
- 3. Factors affecting population size
- 4. Models of population change
- 5. Summary
Chapter 7: Biogeography
- Abstract
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Geographic distribution
- 3. Spatial dynamics of populations
- 4. Habitat connectivity
- 5. Anthropogenic effects on spatial dynamics
- 6. Models of spatial dynamics
- 7. Summary
Section III: Community ecology
Introduction
Chapter 8: Species Interactions
- Abstract
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Direct interactions
- 3. Indirect effects
- 4. Factors affecting interactions
- 5. Consequences of interactions
- 6. Summary
Chapter 9: Community Structure
- Abstract
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Approaches to describing communities
- 3. Patterns of community structure
- 4. Determinants of community structure
- 5. Summary
Chapter 10: Community Dynamics
- Abstract
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Short-term change in community structure
- 3. Successional change in community structure
- 4. Paleoecology
- 5. Diversity versus stability
- 6. Summary
Section IV: Ecosystem level
Introduction
Chapter 11: Ecosystem Structure and Function
- Abstract
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Ecosystem structure
- 3. Energy flow
- 4. Biogeochemical cycling
- 5. Climate modification
- 6. Urban ecosystems
- 7. Ecosystem modeling
- 8. Summary
Chapter 12: Herbivory
- Abstract
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Types and patterns of herbivory
- 3. Effects of herbivory
- 4. Summary
Chapter 13: Pollination, Seed Predation, and Seed Dispersal
- Abstract
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Types and patterns of pollination
- 3. Effects of pollination
- 4. Types and patterns of seed predation and dispersal
- 5. Effects of seed predation and dispersal
- 6. Summary
Chapter 14: Decomposition and Pedogenesis
- Abstract
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Types and patterns of detritivory and burrowing
- 3. Effects of detritivory and burrowing
- 4. Summary
Chapter 15: Insects as Regulators of Ecosystem Processes
- Abstract
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Development of the concept
- 3. Ecosystems as cybernetic systems
- 4. Summary
Section V: Applications and synthesis
Introduction
Chapter 16: Application to Sustainability of Ecosystem Services
- Abstract
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Provisioning services
- 3. Cultural services
- 4. Supporting services
- 5. Regulating services
- 6. Valuation of ecosystem services
- 7. Threats to ecosystem services
- 8. Insects as indicators of environmental change
- 9. Summary
Chapter 17: Management of Insect Populations
- Abstract
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Integrated pest management
- 3. Conservation/restoration ecology
- 4. Summary
Chapter 18: Summary and Synthesis
- Abstract
- 1. Summary
- 2. Synthesis
- 3. Critical issues
- 4. Conclusions
- No. of pages: 774
- Language: English
- Edition: 4
- Published: July 29, 2016
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardback ISBN: 9780128030332
- eBook ISBN: 9780128030370
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