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Oxford University Press, USA
Insect Behavior: From Mechanisms to Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences
Insect Behavior: From Mechanisms to Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences
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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 understand insect 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 providing suggestions 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.
Author: Alex Cordoba-Aguilar
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 10/16/2018
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.05lbs
Size: 9.60h x 7.40w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780198797517
Daniel Gonzalez-Tokman did his doctoral studies at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and has been a researcher at the Instituto de Ecologia, A. C. since 2015. Isaac Gonzalez-Santoyo did his doctoral studies at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and has been a lecturer in the same university since 2015.
This accessible text offers a new approach that provides the reader with the necessary theoretical and conceptual foundations, at different hierarchical levels, to understand insect 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 providing suggestions 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.
Author: Alex Cordoba-Aguilar
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 10/16/2018
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.05lbs
Size: 9.60h x 7.40w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780198797517
About the Author
Alex Cordoba-Aguilar, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Daniel Gonzalez-Tokman, Instituto de Ecologia, Mexico, Isaac Gonzalez-Santoyo, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Daniel Gonzalez-Tokman did his doctoral studies at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and has been a researcher at the Instituto de Ecologia, A. C. since 2015. Isaac Gonzalez-Santoyo did his doctoral studies at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and has been a lecturer in the same university since 2015.
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