Population Biology of Tropical Insects

Population Biology of Tropical Insects by Allen M. Young.

In this book I have tried to bring together the major developments in the study of insect populations in tropical environments. In some ways, this task has been a difficult one because conceptually it is virtually impossible to limit a discussion of insect ecology to the tropics, since the same conc...

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Main Author: Young, Allen M. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1982.
Edition:1st ed. 1982.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
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Evolutionary biology.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Faunistic Richness of Insects in the Tropics: A Brief Overview
  • 2. Individual and Population Responses to Environments
  • 2.1. Ecological Response
  • 2.2. Natural Selection
  • 2.3. Some Properties of Populations
  • 2.4. Ecological Diversity and the Tropics
  • 2.5. Some Mechanisms Underlying Tropical Insect Density
  • 2.6. Strategies of Response to the Environment
  • 2.7. Natural Selection and Properties of Populations
  • 2.8. Environmental Predictability and Response Patterns
  • 3. Machinery of Environmental Response Mechanisms in Insects: Key to Evolutionary and Ecological Diversification
  • 3.1. Notes on Insect Diversity
  • 3.2. Comments on Insect Physiology
  • 3.3. Integration of the Insect Phenotype by Hormonal Systems: A Brief Review
  • 3.4. Diapause and Migration in Insect Populations: Escape in Time and Space
  • 3.5. Temperature, Photoperiod, and Other Factors Related to Insect Activity: Further Comments
  • 3.6. Notes on Mating and Communication in Insects
  • 3.7. Rhythmicity in Tropical Insects
  • 3.8. Sociality and Defense in Social Insects
  • 3.9. Density-Related Behavior in Insects
  • 3.10. Notes on the Physiology of Feeding in Insects
  • 4. Ecological Aspects of Plant Defenses against Insects
  • 4.1. Plant Defenses and Coevolution: An Overview
  • 4.2. Evolution of Unpalatability and Implications for Food Chains
  • 4.3. Notes on Defoliation in the Tropics
  • 4.4. Notes on Seed Prédation in Tropical Habitats
  • 4.5. Notes on Plant-Ant Interactions in the Tropics
  • 5. Distribution Patterns of Insects in Tropical Habitats
  • 5.1. The Concept of Local Adaptation
  • 5.2. Examples of Habitat Differentiation in the Tropics
  • 5.3. Insect Communities in Tropical Habitats
  • 5.4. Plant Resources and Habitat Selection in Tropical Insects
  • 5.5. Disturbed and Undisturbed Habitats: Some General Effects
  • 6. Population Responses to the Environment in Tropical Insects
  • 6.1. Adaptation to Habitats
  • 6.2. Demography and Fitness in Populations: Implications for Tropical Insects
  • 6.3. Further Notes on Population Regulation
  • 6.4. Some Examples of Census Histories in Tropical Insects
  • 6.5. Population Responses to Environmental Heterogeneity in Tropical Insects
  • 6.6. Competition as a Selective Force in Population Responses
  • 6.7. Spatial Environmental Heterogeneity and Demes in the Tropics
  • 7. Effects of Seasonality on Insect Populations in the Tropics
  • 7.1. Temperate Zone and Tropical Seasonality
  • 7.2. Some Regional Patterns of Seasonality in the Tropics
  • 7.3. Some Seasonal Distributions of Tropical Insects
  • 7.4. Molding of Ecological Traits in Tropical Insects by the Dry Season
  • 8. Dynamics of Organization of Insect Commmiities in Tropical Ecosystems
  • 8.1. Notes on Tropical Ecosystems
  • 8.2. Pattems of Organization in Tropical Forests: Some Comments
  • 8.3. Notes on the Dynamics of Tropical Insect Communities
  • 8.4. Some Ecological Factors Generating Patchy Distributions of Insects in Tropical Habitats
  • 9. Insect Species in Agricultural Habitats in the Tropics
  • 9.1. Plant-Insect Interactions and Tropical Agricultural Habitats: Some Comments
  • 9.2. Insect Pollination in an Agricultural Habitat in the Tropics: The Case of Cacao
  • 9.3. Grazing and Related Activities by Insects in Agricultural Habitats in the Tropics
  • 9.4. Tropical Insect Pest Populations
  • 10. Biogeographical and Regional Evolutionary-Ecological Effects on the Maintenance of Tropical Insect Faunas: A Brief Perspective
  • 10.1. Historical Events and Ecological Processes
  • 10.2. Altitudinal and Other Macrogradients in Tropical Regions
  • 10.3. Notes on Altitudinal Gradients in the Tropics
  • 10.4 Biogeographical Pattems of the Origins of Tropical Insect Faunas
  • 10.5. Some Mechanisms of Ecological and Evolutionary Differentiation
  • 10.6. Some Examples of Differential Adaptation to Tropical Lowland and Montane Areas by Insects
  • References.

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