Insect Behavior
From Mechanisms to Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 16 August 2018
- ISBN 9780198797517
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages416 pages
- Size 246x190x20 mm
- Weight 938 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This edited volume offers a new approach that will provide readers with the theoretical and conceptual foundations, at different hierarchical levels, to understand insect behavior.
MoreLong description:
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.
MoreTable of Contents:
Foreword
Introduction
The genetics of reproductive behavior in insects
Neurobiology of insect behavior
The role of hormones in insect behavior
Phenotypic plasticity and insect behavior
Habitat selection and territoriality
Long-range migration and orientation behavior
Insect feeding behavior
Anti-predator behavior
Chemical communication
Visual communication
Acoustic communication
Reproductive behavior
Parental care
Insect sociality
Personality and behavioral syndromes in insects and spiders
Insect cognition and learning
The influence of parasites on insect behavior
Behavioral, plastic, and evolutionary responses to a changing world
Behavior-based control of insect crop pests
Behavior-based control of arthropod vectors: the case of mosquitoes, ticks and Chagasic bugs
Insect behavior in conservation
