Effects of climate change on insects : physiological, evolutionary, and ecological responses / edited by Daniel González-Tokman and Wesley Dáttilo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

González-Tokman, Daniel, editor.

Dáttilo, Wesley, editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Insects--Climatic factors.

Insects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (401 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

An advanced textbook that reviews the conceptual approaches and the most important advances in our current understanding of insect physiology, ecology, evolution and conservation, in the ongoing and rapidly developing context of global anthropogenic climate change.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Contributors

1 Anthropogenic climate change: Causes, consequences and a call to action and research

2 Evidence from the fossil record on insect response to climate change

3 Studying climate change effects in the era of omic sciences

4 Physiological mechanisms of heat tolerance in insects

5 Genetic and plastic responses of insects to climate change

6 Effects of climate change on insect phenology

7 Sexual selection in insects in times of climate change

8 Interspecific hybridization in insects in times of climate change

9 Changes in insect population dynamics due to climate change

10 Evidence of climate change effects on insect diversity: The wind and the pinwheel

11 Effects of climate change on insect distributions and invasions

12 Insect communities adapting to climate change: Using species' trajectories along elevation gradients in tropical and temperate zones

13 Impacts of climate change on insect pollinators and consequences for their ecological function

14 Insect vectors of human pathogens in a warming world: Summarizing responses and consequences

15 Climate change disrupts insect biotic interactions: Cascading effects through the web of life

16 Refugia from climate change, and their influence on the diversity and conservation of insects

17 Improving our understanding of insect responses to climate change: Current knowledge and future perspectives

Glossary

Subject Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2024.

Includes index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on February 12, 2024).

ISBN:

9780191954733

019195473X

9780192679147

0192679147

OCLC:

1420808845