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Arthropods of tropical forests : spatio-temporal dynamics and resource use in the canopy
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ISBN: 0521820006 Year: 2003 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Global Decline of Insects
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ISBN: 1839695889 Year: 2022 Publisher: London, United Kingdom : IntechOpen,

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Insects are a group of animals that contribute significantly to the proper functioning of different ecosystems on the planet. They provide services such as pollinating crops, recycling nutrients and controlling pests. Many scientific publications and reports have studied the current global decline of insects. This decline can severely affect other groups of animals including birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and small mammals that utilize insects as a source of food. This will have a great impact on the trophic cascade and an eventual adverse effect on the overall ecosystem. This book provides insights into the possible reasons behind the decline of insects as well as potential measures that might mitigate this decline. It contains eleven chapters written by different experts. The book is useful for a wide range of readers including entomologists, ecologists, botanists, environmentalists, and amateurs who love collecting and preserving insects.


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Diversity of insect faunas
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ISBN: 0632003529 Year: 1978 Publisher: Oxford : Blackwell,


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Simulation of the fluctuations of the grey larch bud moth
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ISBN: 9022005895 Year: 1976 Publisher: Wageningen Centre for Agricultural Publishing and Documentation


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Researches on population ecology.
ISSN: 14375613 Year: 1999 Publisher: Tokyo : Society of Population Ecology and Springer-Verlag,

Genetic structure and local adaptation in natural insect populations : effects of ecology, life history, and behavior
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ISBN: 0412080311 1475709048 1475709021 Year: 1998 Publisher: New York : Chapman & Hall,

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Providing an essential foundation for evolutionary theory, this comprehensive volume examines patterns of genetic variation within natural insect populations, and explores the underlying mechanisms that lead to the genetic divergence of coexisting organisms. In particular, the text investigates current research on finescale genetic structure in natural insect populations. Internationally renowned scientists offer a wealth of current information not previously published. Part I present case studies of adaptive genetic structure in natural insect populations, including a critical discussion of the strenghts and weaknesses of the experimental methods employed. Part II addresses the ecological mechanisms that produce adaptive genetic structure in natural insect populations. Part III describes how behavioral and life-history patterns influence genetic structure. Finally, Part IV combines theoretical and empirical approaches linking genetic structure at the population level with larger-scale patterns of variation, such as host race formation and speciation. This broad-ranging, interdisciplinary source of information supplies a thorough examination of the mechanisms that promote and impede genetic structure in natural insect populations. It is a book that will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students, and to researchers in the fields of ecology, evolution, insect and plant systems, entomology, and population genetics.

Population dynamics: new approaches and synthesis
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ISBN: 0121592707 9786611036126 1281036129 0080539254 9780121592707 9780080539256 Year: 1995 Publisher: San Diego (Calif.): Academic press,

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An understanding of the dynamics of populations is critically important to ecologists, evolutionary biologists, wildlife managers, foresters, and many other biologists. This edited treatise brings together the latest research on how populations fluctuate in size, the factors that drive these changes, and the theories explaining how populations are regulated. The book also includes specific chapters dealing with insects of economic importance.

Forest entomology in East Africa : forest insects of Tanzania
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ISBN: 1280619503 9786610619504 1402046553 1402046545 9048171636 Year: 2006 Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer,

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East African forests, among the world’s most biologically rich and diverse, are subject to multiple pressures, including insects. As the first work to focus exclusively on East African forest insects, this monograph distils 135 years of scientific and historical literature extending from before the colonial era to the present into an authoritative survey of this region’s major pests of trees and wood, as well as their antagonists. This comprehensive treatise also addresses insects of social and economic importance, such as endemics, edible and collectible insects, wild bees and silk producers. It should be of great value to foresters, entomologists, conservation biologists, resource managers, safari outfitters and anyone else interested in the natural history of this fascinating region.

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