Description
| Product ID: | 9780198797517 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Insect Behavior |
| Subtitle: | From Mechanisms to Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences |
| Authors: | Author: Alex Cordoba-Aguilar, Isaac Gonzalez-Santoyo, Daniel Gonzalez-Tokman |
| Page Count: | 416 |
| Subjects: | Ethology and animal behaviour, Animal behaviour, Insects (entomology), Insects (entomology) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-08-16 |
