| Description |
xi, 483 pages : illustrations, map ; 27 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-461). |
| Summary |
"Key features: integrates individual, population, community, and ecosystem levels of ecological resolution; illustrates the relationship of insect ecology to disturbance dynamics and environmental change; relates metapopulation dynamics to ecosystem structure and function; demonstrates the ability of insect functional groups to affect ecosystem and global processes, such as primary production, biogeochemical cycling, and carbon flux; and provides a context for evolution as feedback between community modification of ecosystem conditions and selection of individual attributes regulating ecosystem conditions."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Contents |
I. Scope of Insect Ecology 3 -- II. Ecosystem Ecology 5 -- III. Environmental Change and Disturbance 10 -- IV. Ecosystem Approach to Insect Ecology 12 -- Section I Ecology of Individual Insects -- 2 Responses to Abiotic Conditions 17 -- I. Physical Template 18 -- II. Surviving Variable Abiotic Conditions 33 -- III. Factors Affecting Dispersal Behavior 41 -- IV. Responses to Anthropogenic Changes 47 -- 3 Resource Acquisition 49 -- I. Resource Suitability 50 -- II. Resource Acceptability 68 -- III. Resource Availability 72 -- 4 Resource Allocation 85 -- I. Resource Budget 85 -- II. Allocation of Assimilated Resources 87 -- III. Efficiency of Resource Use 104 -- Section II Population Ecology -- 5 Population Systems 113 -- I. Population Structure 113 -- II. Population Processes 123 -- III. Life History Characteristics 130 -- IV. Parameter Estimation 132 -- 6 Population Dynamics 137 -- I. Population Fluctuation 138 -- II. Factors Affecting Population Size 141 -- III. Models of Population Change 151 -- 7 Biogeography 161 -- I. Geographic Distribution 162 -- II. Spatial Dynamics of Populations 167 -- III. Anthropogenic Effects on Spatial Dynamics 175 -- IV. Conservation Biology 181 -- V. Models 183 -- Section III Community Ecology -- 8 Species Interactions 189 -- I. Classes of Interactions 190 -- II. Factors Affecting Interactions 211 -- III. Consequences of Interactions 217 -- 9 Community Structure 221 -- I. Approaches to Describing Communities 222 -- II. Patterns of Community Structure 237 -- III. Determinants of Community Structure 243 -- 10 Community Dynamics 249 -- I. Short-Term Change in Community Structure 250 -- II. Successional Change in Community Structure 250 -- III. Paleoecology 265 -- IV. Diversity versus Stability 271 -- Section IV Ecosystem Level -- 11 Ecosystem Structure and Function 279 -- I. Ecosystem Structure 280 -- II. Energy Flow 283 -- III. Biogeochemical Cycling 290 -- IV. Climate Modification 300 -- V. Modeling 303 -- 12 Herbivory 311 -- I. Types and Patterns of Herbivory 312 -- II. Effects of Herbivory 322 -- 13 Pollination, Seed Predation, and Seed Dispersal 343 -- I. Mechanisms and Patterns of Pollination 344 -- II. Effects of Pollination 348 -- III. Mechanisms and Patterns of Seed Predation and Dispersal 350 -- IV. Effects of Seed Predation and Dispersal 357 -- 14 Decomposition and Pedogenesis 361 -- I. Types and Patterns of Detritivory and Burrowing 362 -- II. Effects of Detritivory and Burrowing 372 -- 15 Insects as Regulators of Ecosystem Processes 389 -- I. Development of the Concept 390 -- II. Properties of Cybernetic Systems 394 -- III. Ecosystems as Cybernetic Systems 395 -- Section V Synthesis -- III. Critical Issues 419. |
| Subject |
Insects -- Ecology.
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| ISBN |
0126289751 alkaline paper |
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9780126289756 alkaline paper |
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