Parasitoid Population Biology (eBook)

Michael E. Hochberg, Anthony R. Ives (Herausgeber)

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2021
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23089-4 (ISBN)

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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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.5.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 1 halftone, 60 line illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Mikrobiologie / Immunologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Schlagworte: Aleiodes malacosomatus • alfalfa • Allee Effect • aphid • Aphytis lingnanensis • Arthropod • Asophes brevipetiolatus • balanced mortality hypothesis • beetle • Behavioral Ecology • biodiversity • biological pest control • biologist • Biology • Blepharipa pratensis • Braconidae • Brood (honey bee) • Cameria hamadryadella • Carrying Capacity • Case study • Caterpillar • Cereal leaf beetle • Chalcid wasp • Chemical defense • Chilocorus bipustulatus • Climatic Conditions • Coccus hesperidum • Coevolution • Competition • conservation biology • Copidosoma floridanum • Dasineura brassicae • Dendrocerus aphidum • Density dependence • Diapause • Drosophila • Drosophila melanogaster • Ecology • Ectomyelois ceratoniae • encapsulation • Environmental Stochasticity • Eurytoma curia • Evolution • evolutionary biology • evolutionary dynamics • evolutionary ecology • Fecundity • Field Experiment • field margin strips • Fly • Food Chain • foraging • forest fragmentation • functional response • Gaussian redistribution kernel • genetic structure • Genotype • Giraudiella inclusa • Grassland • habitat destruction • Hassell-Anderson model • Herbivore • Hochberg-Hawkins model • Homoptera • Host (biology) • host encounter rate • Hymenoptera • Ichneumonidae • ideal free distribution (IFD) • insect • insecticide • instar • interspecific competition • Intraguild predation • introduced species • Invertebrate • isofemale lines • Kraaijeveld, L. • landscape ecology • larva • Lepidoptera • Leptopilina boulardi • life history theory • Lolium multifloum • Lomatium dissectum • Lotka–Volterra equations • macroevolution • Maize • metapopulation • Microplitis demolitor • microsatellite • mortality rate • Nasonia vitripenis • Ophiomyia phaseoli • organism • Oviparity • Ovipositor • Pachyneuron califomicum • parasitism • Parasitoid • parasitoid community ecology • Parasitoid wasp • pasture weevil control • pathogen • pattern formation • pest control • Pesticide • Pest management • Phenotype • Phragmites australis • Poisson distribution • Pollen beetle • Polydnavirus • population dynamics • Population Ecology • Population Genetics • Population model • Population Size • Praon pequodorum • predation • Princeton University Press • Probability • Probability Distribution • pseudohyperparasitoids • pupa • reaction norm • Reproductive success • Rhopalomyia californica • Sasaki-Godfray model • Sex Ratio • spatial ecology • spatial heterogeneity • Speciation • Suggestion • Tachinidae • Tachinomyia similis • Tent caterpillar • Tetrastichus howardi • Time Scales • Torymus koebelei • Trade-off • trophic cascade • Trophic level • Turing, A. M. • Urophora cardui L. • Venturia caenescens • Virulence • Zatropis capitis
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23089-7 / 0691230897
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23089-4 / 9780691230894