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Parasitoid Population Biology

Buch | Hardcover
2000
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-04981-6 (ISBN)
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Presenting the ideas of 17 international specialists, this text provides an overview of the most salient questions pertaining to the field of parasitoid population biology.
Extraordinary in the diversity of their lifestyles, insect parasitoids have become extremely important study organisms in the field of population biology, and they are the most frequently used agents in the biological control of insect pests. This book presents the ideas of seventeen international specialists, providing the reader not only with an overview but also with lively discussions of the most salient questions pertaining to the field today and prescriptions for avenues of future research.


After a general introduction, the book divides into three main sections: population dynamics, population diversity, and population applications. The first section covers gaps in our knowledge in parasitoid behavior, parasitoid persistence, and how space and landscape affect dynamics. The contributions on population diversity consider how evolution has molded parasitoid populations and communities. The final section calls for novel approaches toward resolving the enigma of success in biological control and questions why parasitoids have been largely neglected in conservation biology. Parasitoid Population Biology will likely be an important influence on research well into the twenty-first century and will provoke discussion amongst parasitoid biologists and population biologists.


In addition to the editors, the contributors are Carlos Bernstein, Jacques Brodeur, Jerome Casas, H.C.J. Godfray, Susan Harrison, Alan Hastings, Bradford A. Hawkins, George E. Heimpel, Marcel Holyoak, Nick Mills, Bernard D. Roitberg, Jens Roland, Michael R. Strand, Teja Tscharntke, and Minus van Baalen.

Michael E. Hochberg is a Research Director with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. A recipient of the Silver Medal of the CNRS in 1997, he employs both empirical and theoretical approaches toward understanding fundamental and applied aspects of evolution in host-parasite associations. Anthony R. Ives is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Zoology and Entomology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a theoretical ecologist who conducts empirical research on aphid pests and their parasitoids in agricultural systems.

Zusatzinfo 1 halftone, 60 line illus.
Verlagsort New Jersey
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 235 mm
Gewicht 709 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Biologie Mikrobiologie / Immunologie
ISBN-10 0-691-04981-5 / 0691049815
ISBN-13 978-0-691-04981-6 / 9780691049816
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