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Schowalter - Insect Ecology_ An Ecosystem Approach 4th Edition C2016
READERSHIP: 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.
OVERVIEW: This new and updated edition provides the most advanced synthesis of insect ecology, following a hierarchical organization that explores adaptive responses of insect populations to various environmental changes, disturbances, and anthropogenic activities, and how insects find food and habitat resources and allocate available energy and nutrients.
PITCH: 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.
FEATURES:
* 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
BRIEF CONTENTS:
.1 Overview
Section I - Ecology of individual insects
.2 Responses to Abiotic Conditions
.3 Resource Acquisition
.4 Resource Allocation
Section II - Population ecology
.5 Population Systems
.6 Population Dynamics
.7 Biogeography
Section III - Community Ecology
.8 Species Interactions
.9 Community Structure
.10 Community Dynamics
Section IV - Ecosystem Level
.11 Ecosystem Structure and Function
.12 Herbivory
.13 Pollination, Seed Predation, and Seed Dispersal
.14 Decomposition and Pedogenesis
.15 Insects as Regulators of Ecosystem Processes
Section V - Applications and Synthesis
.16 Application to Sustainability of Ecosystem Services
.17 Management of Insect Populations
.18 Summary and Synthesis
Bibliography
Indexes
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