Insect Ecology

An Ecosystem Approach
4 ed
ISBN: 978-0-12-803033-2
Verlag: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc

Buch, Englisch, 774 Seiten, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1683 g

Insect 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.

Zielgruppe

<p>Primarily professional entomologists, ecologists and others with interest in how insects engineer our global ecosystem, as well as how they respond to environmental changes. This book can be, and has been, used in graduate Insect Ecology courses. Reviewers of previous editions also have recommended it for undergraduate Insect Ecology students</p>

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schowalter, Timothy D.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Botanik Pflanzenökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie Tierökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie Wirbellose (Invertebrata) Insekten (Entomologie)
• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Ackerbaukunde, Pflanzenbau Forstwirtschaft, Forstwissenschaft
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Overview

Section I: Ecology of individual insects2. Responses to Abiotic Conditions3. Resource Acquisition4. Resource Allocation

Section II: Population ecology5. Population Systems6. Population Dynamics7. Biogeography

Section III: Community ecology8. Species Interactions9. Community Structure10. Community Dynamics

Section IV: Ecosystem level11. Ecosystem Structure and Function12. Herbivory13. Pollination, Seed Predation, and Seed Dispersal14. Decomposition and Pedogenesis15. Insects as Regulators of Ecosystem Processes

Section V: Applications and synthesis16. Application to Sustainability of Ecosystem Services17. Management of Insect Populations18. Summary and Synthesis

Über Autor(innen)

Schowalter, Timothy D.
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.