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Insect Ecology
An Ecosystem Approach
- 5th Edition - February 24, 2022
- Author: Timothy D. Schowalter
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 5 6 7 3 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 5 6 7 4 - 4
Insect Ecology: An Ecosystem Approach, Fifth Edition provides the most updated and comprehensive knowledge of the diversity of insect responses to environmental changes and their… Read more
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Request a sales quoteInsect Ecology: An Ecosystem Approach, Fifth Edition provides the most updated and comprehensive knowledge of the diversity of insect responses to environmental changes and their effects on ecosystem properties and services.
Written by an expert in the field, this book addresses ways in which insect morphology, physiology and behavior tailor their adaptation to particular environmental conditions, how those adaptations affect their responses to environmental changes, and how their responses affect ecosystem properties and the ecosystem services on which humans depend for survival. This edition also addresses recent reports of global declines in insect abundance and how these declines could affect human interests.
Insect Ecology: An Ecosystem Approach, Fifth Edition is an important resource for researchers, entomologists, ecologists, pest managers and conservationists who want to understand insect ecology and to manage insects in ways that sustain the delivery of ecosystem services. Graduate and advanced undergraduate students may also find this as a useful resource for entomology and specifically insect ecology courses.
- The only insect ecology text that emphasizes insect effects on ecosystem properties and services, as well as evolutionary adaptations to environmental conditions
- Includes new material on long-term trends in insect abundance, addressing the so-called “insect apocalypse”
- Offers crucial updates on mechanisms by which insects affect, and potentially regulate, ecosystem structure and function
- Applies ecological principles to improved management of insects for the sustainable delivery of ecosystem services
Professional entomologists, ecologists and others with interest in how insects engineer our global ecosystem, as well as how they respond to environmental changes. Advanced undergraduate and graduate students in insect ecology
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Overview
- Abstract
- I Scope of insect ecology
- II Ecosystem ecology
- III Environmental change and disturbance
- IV Ecosystem approach to insect ecology
- V Scope of this book
- References
- Section I. Ecology of individual insects
- Chapter 2. Responses to abiotic conditions
- Abstract
- I Introduction
- II The physical template
- III Surviving variable abiotic conditions
- IV Dispersal behavior
- V Responses to anthropogenic changes
- VI Summary
- References
- Chapter 3. Resource acquisition
- Abstract
- I Introduction
- II Resource quality
- III Resource acceptability
- IV Resource availability
- V Summary
- References
- Chapter 4. Resource allocation
- Abstract
- I Introduction
- II Resource budget
- III Allocation of assimilated resources
- IV Efficiency of resource use
- V Summary
- References
- Section II. Population ecology
- Chapter 5. Population systems
- Abstract
- I Introduction
- II Population structure
- III Population processes
- IV Life history characteristics
- V Parameter estimation
- VI Summary
- References
- Chapter 6. Population dynamics
- Abstract
- I Introduction
- II Population fluctuation
- III Factors affecting population size
- IV Models of population change
- V Summary
- References
- Chapter 7. Biogeography
- Abstract
- I Introduction
- II Geographic distribution
- III Spatial dynamics of populations
- IV Habitat connectivity
- V Anthropogenic effects on spatial dynamics
- VI Models of spatial dynamics
- VII Summary
- References
- Section III. Community ecology
- Chapter 8. Species interactions
- Abstract
- I Introduction
- II Direct interactions
- III Indirect effects
- IV Factors affecting interactions
- V Consequences of interactions
- VI Summary
- References
- Chapter 9. Community structure
- Abstract
- I Introduction
- II Approaches to describing communities
- III Patterns of community structure
- IV Determinants of community structure
- V Summary
- References
- Chapter 10. Community dynamics
- Abstract
- I Introduction
- II Short-term change in community structure
- III Successional change in community structure
- IV Paleoecology
- V Diversity versus stability
- VI Summary
- References
- Section IV. Ecosystem level
- Chapter 11. Ecosystem structure and function
- Abstract
- I Introduction
- II Ecosystem structure
- III Energy flow
- IV Biogeochemical cycling
- V Ecosystem engineering
- VI Urban ecosystems
- VII Ecosystem modeling
- VIII Summary
- References
- Chapter 12. Herbivory
- Abstract
- I Introduction
- II Types and patterns of herbivory
- III Effects of herbivory
- IV Summary
- References
- Chapter 13. Pollination, seed predation, and seed dispersal
- Abstract
- I Introduction
- II Types and patterns of pollination
- III Effects of pollination
- IV Types and patterns of seed predation and dispersal
- V Effects of seed predation and dispersal
- VI Summary
- References
- Chapter 14. Decomposition and pedogenesis
- Abstract
- I Introduction
- II Types and patterns of detritivory and burrowing
- III Effects of detritivory and burrowing
- IV Summary
- References
- Chapter 15. Insects as regulators of ecosystem processes
- Abstract
- I Introduction
- II Development of the concept
- III Ecosystems as cybernetic systems
- IV Summary
- References
- Section V. Applications and synthesis
- Chapter 16. Sustaining ecosystem services
- Abstract
- I Introduction
- II Provisioning services
- III Cultural services
- IV Supporting services
- V Regulating services
- VI Valuation of ecosystem services
- VII Threats to ecosystem services
- VIII Insects as indicators of environmental change
- IX Summary
- References
- Chapter 17. Managing insect populations
- Abstract
- I Introduction
- II Integrated pest management
- III Conservation/restoration ecology
- IV Summary
- References
- Chapter 18. Summary and synthesis
- Abstract
- I Summary
- II Synthesis
- III Critical issues
- IV Conclusion
- References
- Author Index
- Taxonomic Index (Arthropods only)
- Subject Index
- No. of pages: 942
- Language: English
- Edition: 5
- Published: February 24, 2022
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardback ISBN: 9780323856737
- eBook ISBN: 9780323856744
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Timothy D. Schowalter
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.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Entomology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA