Insect Behavior : From Mechanisms to Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences PDF
Edited by Alex Cordoba-Aguilar, Daniel Gonzalez-Tokman, Isaac Gonzalez-Santoyo
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Insects display a staggering diversity of behaviors.
Studying these systems provides insights into a wide range of ecological, evolutionary, and behavioral questions including the genetics of behavior, phenotypic plasticity, chemical communication, and the evolution of life-history traits.
This accessible text offers a new approach that provides the reader with the necessary theoretical and conceptual foundations, at different hierarchical levels, to understandinsect behavior.
The book is divided into three main sections: mechanisms, ecological and evolutionary consequences, and applied issues.
The final section places the preceding chapters within a framework of current threats to human survival - climate change, disease, and food security - before providingsuggestions and insights as to how we can utilize an understanding of insect behavior to control and/or ameliorate them.
Each chapter provides a concise, authoritative review of the conceptual, theoretical, and methodological foundations of each topic.
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:448 pages
- Publisher:OUP Oxford
- Publication Date:19/07/2018
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- ISBN:9780192518095
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:448 pages
- Publisher:OUP Oxford
- Publication Date:19/07/2018
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- ISBN:9780192518095