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Insect outbreaks revisited / edited by Pedro Barbosa, Deborah K. Letourneau, Anurag A. Agrawal.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Insect populations.
- Insects--Ecology.
- Insects.
- Insect pests.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (493 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester, England ; Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The abundance of insects can change dramatically from generation to generation; these generational changes may occur within a growing season or over a period of years. Such extraordinary density changes or ""outbreaks"" may be abrupt and ostensibly random, or population peaks may occur in a more or less cyclic fashion. They can be hugely destructive when the insect is a crop pest or carries diseases of humans, farm animals, or wildlife. Knowledge of these types of population dynamics and computer models that may help predict when they occur are very important. This important new book revisit
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Physiological and life history perspectives
- pt. 2. Population dynamics and multispecies interactions
- pt. 3. Population, community, and ecosystem ecology
- pt. 4. Genetics and evolution
- pt. 5. Applied perspectives.
- Notes:
- Updates: Insect outbreaks / edited by Pedro Barbosa and Jack C. Shultz. San Diego : Academic Press, c1987.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786613721679
- 9781280880360
- 1280880368
- 9781118253847
- 1118253841
- 9781118295205
- 111829520X
- 9781118253861
- 1118253868
- OCLC:
- 798943401
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