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Insect Ecomorphology
Linking Functional Insect Morphology to Ecology and Evolution
- 1st Edition - December 1, 2024
- Editor: Oliver Betz
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 5 4 4 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 8 5 4 5 - 8
Insect Ecomorphology: Linking Functional Insect Morphology to Ecology and Evolution offers up-to-date knowledge and understanding on the morphology of insects and the functiona… Read more
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Request a sales quoteInsect Ecomorphology: Linking Functional Insect Morphology to Ecology and Evolution offers up-to-date knowledge and understanding on the morphology of insects and the functional basis of their diversity. This book covers the form and function of insect body structures synthesized with their physiological performance capabilities, biological roles, and evolutionary histories. Written by international experts, this book explores the ecomorphology of functional systems such as insect feeding, locomotion, sensing, and reproduction. The combination of conceptual and review chapters, methodological approaches, and case studies enables readers to delve into active research fields and attain a general idea of the explanatory power of the form-function-performance paradigm.
The book uncovers key structures of the different regions of the insect body, elucidates how they function, and investigates their ecological and evolutionary implications. It will be a vital resource for entomologists, biologists, and zoologists, especially those seeking to better understand the morphology and physiological impacts tying insects to environments and evolution.
- Integrates traditionally separate fields of research to understand insect morphology, ecology, and evolution
- Considers the impacts of insect ecomorphology on biomimetic applications
- Includes conceptual and methodological chapters that help readers comprehend how ecomorphological studies are performed
Researchers and practitioners in entomology, zoology, morphology, ecology, and evolutionary biology, Advanced undergraduate and graduate students in biology, entomology, zoology, paleontology, and evolutionary studies, engineers and biomimeticists
Part I: Conceptual Issues
1. Introduction
2. Conceptual and methodological issues in insect ecomorphology
Part II: Ecomorphology of the Insect Body
3. Ecomorphology of the insect head with a focus on the mouthparts of adults
4. Reflections of an insect's lifestyle and habitat: Morphological and ultrastructural adaptations involving the eyes of insects
5. Ecomorphology of insect flight
6. Ecomorphology of polypedal locomotion
7. Ecomorphology and evolution of tarsal and pretarsal attachment organs in insects
8. Ecomorphology of insect ovipositors
9. Insect antennae and olfactory sensilla – aspects of odorant capture and water conservation
10. Ecomorphology of insect mechanosensilla
Part III: Methodological Approaches
11. Methods for imaging insects using synchrotron x-ray
12. Methods for biomechanical characterization of insect cuticle
13. Shaping up: morphometric approaches to understanding insect behavioral ecology and ecomorphology
Part IV: Case Studies
14. Morphological adaptations of beetles to changing living conditions in the Permian and the Mesozoic
15. Ecomorphology of microinsects
16. Ecomorphology of insect-plant interactions
17. Nectar-feeding ecology, ecomorphological adaptations, and variation of proboscis length in a long-proboscid fly (Diptera: Nemestrinidae: Prosoeca)
18. Ecomorphology of ants
Part V: Biomimetics
19. Ways in which insect biomimetics can benefit from ecomorphological research and vice versa
1. Introduction
2. Conceptual and methodological issues in insect ecomorphology
Part II: Ecomorphology of the Insect Body
3. Ecomorphology of the insect head with a focus on the mouthparts of adults
4. Reflections of an insect's lifestyle and habitat: Morphological and ultrastructural adaptations involving the eyes of insects
5. Ecomorphology of insect flight
6. Ecomorphology of polypedal locomotion
7. Ecomorphology and evolution of tarsal and pretarsal attachment organs in insects
8. Ecomorphology of insect ovipositors
9. Insect antennae and olfactory sensilla – aspects of odorant capture and water conservation
10. Ecomorphology of insect mechanosensilla
Part III: Methodological Approaches
11. Methods for imaging insects using synchrotron x-ray
12. Methods for biomechanical characterization of insect cuticle
13. Shaping up: morphometric approaches to understanding insect behavioral ecology and ecomorphology
Part IV: Case Studies
14. Morphological adaptations of beetles to changing living conditions in the Permian and the Mesozoic
15. Ecomorphology of microinsects
16. Ecomorphology of insect-plant interactions
17. Nectar-feeding ecology, ecomorphological adaptations, and variation of proboscis length in a long-proboscid fly (Diptera: Nemestrinidae: Prosoeca)
18. Ecomorphology of ants
Part V: Biomimetics
19. Ways in which insect biomimetics can benefit from ecomorphological research and vice versa
- No. of pages: 350
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: December 1, 2024
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443185441
- eBook ISBN: 9780443185458
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Oliver Betz
Oliver Betz gained a Ph.D. from the University of Bayreuth, Germany, in 1994 for his work on the morphology, function, and evolution of the prey-capture apparatus in Stenus rove beetles. He then became interested in the broader fields of functional and ecological morphology and qualified in 2002 as a professor in ecology and zoology at the University of Kiel, Germany. Since 2004, Oliver has been a full professor of Evolutionary Biology of Invertebrates at the Biology Department at the University of Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. His research focuses on the functional and ecological morphology of insects, taking into account the integration of morphology and ecology to improve the understanding of the function of morphological structures in their ecological (environment) and evolutionary (history) context.
Affiliations and expertise
University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany