Insect outbreaks revisited /

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Barbosa, Pedro, 1944-, Letourneau, Deborah Kay, Agrawal, Anurag A.
• Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2012.
• Θέματα: Insect populations.; Insects > Ecology.; Insect pests.; NATURE > Animals > Insects & Spiders.; SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Zoology > Entomology.; Electronic books.

"The abundance of insects can change dramatically from generation to generation; these generational changes may occur within a growing season or over a period of years. Such extraordinary density changes or "outbreaks" may be abrupt and ostensibly random, or population peaks may occur...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Insect herbivore outbreaks viewed through a physiological framework : insights from Orthoptera / Spencer T. Behmer and Anthony Joern
• The dynamical effects of interactions between inducible plant resistance and food limitation during insect outbreaks / Karen C. Abbott
• Immune responses and their potential role in insect outbreaks / J. Gwen Shlichta and Angela M. Smilanich
• The role of ecological stoichiometry in outbreaks of insect herbivores / Eric M. Lind and Pedro Barbosa
• Plant-induced responses and herbivore population dynamics / André Kessler, Katja Poveda, and Erik H. Poelman
• Spatial synchrony of insect outbreaks / Andrew M. Liebhold, Kyle J. Haynes, and Ottar N. Bjørnstad
• What tree-ring reconstruction tells us about conifer defoliator outbreaks / Ann M. Lynch
• Insect-associated microorganisms and their possible role in outbreaks / Yasmin J. Cardoza, Richard W. Hofstetter, and Fernando E. Vega
• Life history traits and host plant use in defoliators and bark beetles : implications for population dynamics / Julia Koricheva, Maartje J. Klapwijk, and Christer Björkman
• The ecological consequences of insect outbreaks / Louie H. Yang
• Insect outbreaks in tropical forests : patterns, mechanisms, and consequences / Lee A. Dyer, Walter P. Carson, and Egbert G. Leigh Jr.
• Outbreaks and ecosystem services / Timothy D. Schowalter
• Evidence for outbreaks from the fossil record of insect herbivory / Conrad C. Labandeira
• Implications of host-associated differentiation in the control of pest species / Raul F. Medina
• Disasters by design : outbreaks along urban gradients / Michael J. Raupp, Paula M. Shrewsbury, and Dan A. Herms
• Resistance to transgenic crops and pest outbreaks / Bruce E. Tabashnik and Yves Carrière
• Natural enemies and insect outbreaks in agriculture : a landscape perspective / J. Megan Woltz, Benjamin P. Werling, and Douglas A. Landis
• Integrated pest management : outbreaks prevented, delayed, or facilitated? / Deborah K. Letourneau
• Insect invasions : lessons from biological control of weeds / Peter B. McEvoy, Fritzi S. Grevstad, and Shon S. Schooler
• Assessing the impact of climate change on outbreak potential / Maartje J. Klapwijk [and others].