Insect Behavior (eBook, PDF)

From Mechanisms to Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences
Redaktion: Córdoba-Aguilar, Alex; González-Santoyo, Isaac; González-Tokman, Daniel

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780192518095
• Artikelnr.: 54591516

Autorenporträt

Alex Córdoba-Aguilar completed his PhD at Sheffield University and has been a researcher at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México since 2003. Daniel González-Tokman did his doctoral studies at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and has been a researcher at the Instituto de Ecología, A. C. since 2015. Isaac González-Santoyo did his doctoral studies at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and has been a lecturer in the same university since 2015.

Inhaltsangabe

* Foreword
* 1: Daniel González-Tokman, Isaac González-Santoyo, and Alex
Córdoba-Aguilar: Introduction
* 2: John Hunt, James Rapkin, and Clarissa House: The genetics of
reproductive behavior in insects
* 3: Anne C. von Philipsborn: Neurobiology of insect behavior
* 4: H. Frederik Nijhout and Emily Laub: The role of hormones in insect
behavior
* 5: Karen D. Williams and Marla B. Sokolowski: Phenotypic plasticity
and insect behavior
* 6: Darrell J. Kemp: Habitat selection and territoriality
* 7: Don R. Reynolds and Jason W. Chapman: Long-range migration and
orientation behavior
* 8: Stephen J. Simpson, Carlos Ribeiro, and Daniel González-Tokman:
Insect feeding behavior
* 9: Thomas N. Sherratt and Changku Kang: Anti-predator behavior
* 10: Bernard D. Roitberg: Chemical communication
* 11: James C. O'Hanlon, Thomas E. White, and Kate D.L. Umbers: Visual
communication
* 12: Heiner Römer: Acoustic communication
* 13: Rachel Olzer, Rebecca L. Ehrlich, Justa L. Heinen-Kay, Jessie
Tanner, and Marlene Zuk: Reproductive behavior
* 14: Glauco Machado and Stephen T. Trumbo: Parental care
* 15: Jennifer Fewell and Patrick Abbot: Insect sociality
* 16: Carl N. Keiser, James L.L. Lichtenstein, Colin M. Wright, Gregory
T. Chism, and Jonathan N. Pruitt: Personality and behavioral
syndromes in insects and spiders
* 17: Reuven Dukas: Insect cognition and learning
* 18: Pedro F. Vale, Jonathon A. Siva-Jothy, André Morrill, and Mark R.
Forbes: The influence of parasites on insect behavior
* 19: Wolf U. Blanckenhorn: Behavioral, plastic, and evolutionary
responses to a changing world
* 20: Sandra A. Allan: Behavior-based control of insect crop pests
* 21: Ana E. Gutiérrez-Cabrera, Giovanni Benelli, Thomas Walker, José
Antonio De Fuentes-Vicente, and Alex Córdoba-Aguilar: Behavior-based
control of arthropod vectors: the case of mosquitoes, ticks and
Chagasic bugs
* 22: Tim R. New: Insect behavior in conservation