Ecological and Environmental Physiology of Insects
Series: Ecological and Environmental Physiology Series;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 26 January 2012
- ISBN 9780199225958
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages392 pages
- Size 238x170x21 mm
- Weight 684 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Numerous illustrations 0
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Short description:
Insects are the most ecologically important multicellular heterotrophs in terrestrial systems. This book presents a current and comprehensive overview of how the key physiological traits of insects respond to environmental variation.
MoreLong description:
Insects are the most ecologically important multicellular heterotrophs in terrestrial systems. They play critical roles in ecological food webs, remain devastating agricultural and medical pests, and represent the most diverse group of eukaryotes in terms of species numbers. Their dominant role among terrestrial heterotrophs arises from a number of key physiological traits, and in particular by the developmental and evolutionary plasticity of these traits.
Ecological and Environmental Physiology of Insects presents a current and comprehensive overview of how the key physiological traits of insects respond to environmental variation. It forges conceptual links from molecular biology through organismal function to population and community ecology. As with other books in the Series, the emphasis is on the unique physiological characteristics of the insects, but with applications to questions of broad relevance in physiological ecology. As an aid to new researchers on insects, it also includes introductory chapters on the basics and techniques of insect physiology ecology.
If you are seriously interested in how the environment affects insects, and want to understand this process at a mechanistic level, you should own this book.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Basic insect functional anatomy and physiological principles
Temperature
Water
Nutrition, growth, and size
Oxygen
Techniques and applications
Conclusions and future directions
References
Index
