Barbosa / Letourneau / Agrawal Insect Outbreaks Revisited

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-25386-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 492 Seiten, E-Book

The abundance of insects can change dramatically from generation togeneration; these generational changes may occur within a growingseason or over a period of years. Such extraordinary densitychanges or "outbreaks" may be abrupt and ostensibly random, orpopulation peaks may occur in a more or less cyclic fashion. Theycan be hugely destructive when the insect is a crop pest or carriesdiseases of humans, farm animals, or wildlife. Knowledge of thesetypes of population dynamics and computer models that may helppredict when they occur are very important.
This important new book revisits a subject not thoroughlydiscussed in such a publication since 1988 and brings aninternational scale to the issue of insect outbreaks.
Insect Outbreaks Revisited is intended for seniorundergraduate and graduate students in ecology, population biologyand entomology, as well as government and industry scientists doingresearch on pests, land managers, pest management personnel,extension personnel, conservation biologists and ecologists, andstate, county and district foresters.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barbosa, Pedro

Letourneau, Deborah K.

Agrawal, Anurag

Agrawal, Anurag A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors viii
Acknowledgments xi
Preface xii
PART I PHYSIOLOGICAL AND LIFE HISTORY PERSPECTIVES 1
1 Insect Herbivore Outbreaks Viewed through a PhysiologicalFramework: Insights from Orthoptera 3
Spencer T. Behmer and Anthony Joern
2 The Dynamical Effects of Interactions between Inducible PlantResistance and Food Limitation during Insect Outbreaks 30
Karen C. Abbott
3 Immune Responses and Their Potential Role in Insect Outbreaks47
J. Gwen Shlichta and Angela M. Smilanich
4 The Role of Ecological Stoichiometry in Outbreaks of InsectHerbivores 71
Eric M. Lind and Pedro Barbosa
PART II POPULATION DYNAMICS AND MULTISPECIES INTERACTIONS89
5 Plant-Induced Responses and Herbivore Population Dynamics91
André Kessler, Katja Poveda, and Erik H. Poelman
6 Spatial Synchrony of Insect Outbreaks 113
Andrew M. Liebhold, Kyle J. Haynes, and Ottar N.Bjørnstad
7 What Tree-Ring Reconstruction Tells Us about ConiferDefoliator Outbreaks 126
Ann M. Lynch
8 Insect-Associated Microorganisms and Their Possible Role inOutbreaks 155
Yasmin J. Cardoza, Richard W. Hofstetter, and Fernando E.Vega
PART III POPULATION, COMMUNITY, AND ECOSYSTEM ECOLOGY175
9 Life History Traits and Host Plant Use in Defoliators and BarkBeetles: Implications for Population Dynamics 177
Julia Koricheva, Maartje J. Klapwijk, and ChristerBjörkman
10 The Ecological Consequences of Insect Outbreaks 197
Louie H. Yang
11 Insect Outbreaks in Tropical Forests: Patterns, Mechanisms,and Consequences 219
Lee A. Dyer, Walter P. Carson, and Egbert G. Leigh Jr.
12 Outbreaks and Ecosystem Services 246
Timothy D. Schowalter
PART IV GENETICS AND EVOLUTION 267
13 Evidence for Outbreaks from the Fossil Record of InsectHerbivory 269
Conrad C. Labandeira
14 Implications of Host-Associated Differentiation in theControl of Pest Species 291
Raul F. Medina
PART V APPLIED PERSPECTIVES 311
15 Disasters by Design: Outbreaks along Urban Gradients313
Michael J. Raupp, Paula M. Shrewsbury, and Dan A. Herms
16 Resistance to Transgenic Crops and Pest Outbreaks 341
Bruce E. Tabashnik and Yves Carrière
17 Natural Enemies and Insect Outbreaks in Agriculture: ALandscape Perspective 355
J. Megan Woltz, Benjamin P. Werling, and Douglas A.Landis
18 Integrated Pest Management - Outbreaks Prevented,Delayed, or Facilitated? 371
Deborah K. Letourneau
19 Insect Invasions: Lessons from Biological Control of Weeds395
Peter B. McEvoy, Fritzi S. Grevstad, and Shon S.Schooler
20 Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on Outbreak Potential429
Maartje J. Klapwijk, Matthew P. Ayres, Andrea Battisti, and StigLarsson
Subject Index 451
Taxonomic Index 459
Colour plate pages fall between pp. 196 and 197

Über Autor(innen)

Pedro Barbosa was born in Guayama, Puerto Rico and raised inSpanish Harlem, in New York City. He received his B.S. in biologyfrom the City College of New York and his M.S. and Ph.D. at theUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst. Pedro's research interestsare in theoretical and applied ecology of plant-insect interactionswith an emphasis on tri-trophic interactions. He has authored orcoauthored many refereed publications, and written or edited 13books.
Deborah K. Letourneau's Bachelor's, Master's and doctoraldegrees are from the University of Michigan and University ofCalifornia at Berkeley. As Professor of Environmental Studies atthe University of California, Santa Cruz her research concernsplant-insect interactions, biodiversity, and environmental risk inthe context of decision-making that sustains both livelihoods andthe environment.
Anurag A. Agrawal studies the evolutionary ecology ofplants and insects as a professor at Cornell University'sDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Department ofEntomology. His work spans community ecology, invasive species,coevolution, and ecological genetics. Please visit his lab websitewww.herbivory.com forcurrent projects and research.