Allan D. Watt, Nigel E. Stork, Mark D. Hunter

Forests and Insects

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book covers the full breadth of forest entomology. It combines the work of forest entomologists working on the impact and management of forest pests with those involved in diversity assessment and conservation of insects in forests. Forests and Insects demonstrates that both these disciplines demand an understanding of population and community biology.
The book covers such topics as colonization of trees by insects, population dynamics of forest insects, insect natural enemies, the effects of climate change and pollution on forest pests, spatial variation in the abundance of insects,the mineralization of carbon by termites, the impact of herbivorous insects, and the conservation of forest insect diversity, including the effects of forest fragmentation and deforestation.
This Royal Entomological Society Symposium volume will be of great interest to all agricultural and forest entomologists, population and community biologists, pest management specialists and anyone concerned with the conservation of forest biodiversity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer Netherlands / The Royal Entomological Society
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-412-79110-9
• 1997.
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 1021g
• ISBN-13: 9780412791109
• ISBN-10: 0412791102
• Artikelnr.: 23448971

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors. Preface. Introduction. Part One: Colonization of
trees by insects. 1. Adaptations of phytophagous insects to life on trees,
with particular reference to aphids; A.F.G. Dixon. 2. Host specificity in
forest insects; S.M. Fraser. Part Two: Temporal and spatial population
ecology. 3. Population dynamics of forest insects: Are they governed by
single or multiple factors? T. Royama. 4. The impact of parasitoids and
predators on forest insect populations; N.A.C. Kidd, M.A. Jervis. 5.
Herbivore-induced responses in treees: Internal vs. external explanations;
E. Haukioja, T. Honkanen. 6. Incorporating variation in plant chemistry
into a spatially explicit ecology of phytophagous insects; M.D. Hunter. 7.
Forest structure and the spatial pattern of parasitoid attack; J. Roland,
et al. Part Three: Insects in forest ecosystems. 8. Termites as mediators
of carbon fluxes in tropical forest: Budgets for carbon dioxide and methane
emissions; D.E. Bignell, et al. 9. Herbivory in forests: From centimetres
to megametres; M.D. Lowman. Part Four: Forest pests. 10. Comparative
analysis of patterns of invasion and spread of related lymantriids; P.
Barbosa, P.W. Schaefer. 11. Threats to forestry by insect pests in Europe;
K.R. Day, S.R. Leather. 12. Forest pests in the tropics: Current status and
future threats; M.R. Speight. 13. The impacts of climate change and
pollution on forest pests; M. Docherty, et al. Part Five: Insect diversity.
14. Patterns of use of large moth caterpillars (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae
and Sphingidae) by ichneumonid parasitoids (Hymenoptera) in Costa Rican dry
forest; D.H. Janzen, I.D. Gauld. 15. Impact of forest loss and regeneration
on insect abundance and diversity; A.D. Watt, et al. 16. Beetle abundance
and diversity in a boreal mixed-wood forest; J.R. Spence, et al. 17. An
overview of invertebrate responses to forest fragmentation; R.K. Didham.
18. Impact of forest and woodland structure on insect abundance and
diversity; P. Dennis. 19. Ficus: A resource for arthropods in the tropics,
with particular reference to New Guinea; Y. Basset, et al. Part Six: Insect
conservation. 20. Arthropods of coastal old-growth Sitka spruce forests:
Conservation of biodiversity with special reference to the Staphylinidae;
N.N. Winchester. 21. Conservation corridors and rain forest insects; C.J.
Hill. 22. Insect conservation; T.E. Lovejoy, et al. Index.

Rezensionen

`The book is a very useful source of research information, and provides a good selection of relevant topics in the area of forest entomology ... The book should be present in all entomological research libraries.'
European Journal of Entomology, 96 (2000)

`The book is a very useful source of research information, and provides a good selection of relevant topics in the area of forest entomology ... The book should be present in all entomological research libraries.'
European Journal of Entomology, 96 (2000)