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Insect Ecology
An Ecosystem Approach
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
Timothy D. Schowalter (Author)
9780128030332
Hardback, published 15 August 2016
774 pages
23.4 x 19 x 3.9 cm, 2.41 kg
"I consider Schowalter’s Insect Ecology to be the consummate text on the topic as the author has a very broad and diverse perspective on insect ecology. The ecosystem-level perspective Schowalter takes in this book fills the need to incorporate insects and their influence into a larger, applied context. Insects have huge impacts on timber availability, large scale fires, and the carbon sink capacity of our forests. Understanding insects' influence on these disturbances and ecosystem services is essential for land managers, restoration project managers, and environmental consultants, in addition to research scientists." --Dr. Samantha Chapman, Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Villanova University
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.
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
Subject Areas: Insects [entomology PSVT7]
