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Allee effect
Aphid
Arthropod
Behavioral ecology
Biodiversity
Biological pest control
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Biology
Carrying capacity
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Caterpillar
Coevolution
Competition
Conservation biology
Density dependence
Drosophila
Drosophila melanogaster
Ecology
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Evolution
Evolutionary biology
Evolutionary dynamics
Evolutionary ecology
Fecundity
Field experiment
Foraging
Forest fragmentation
Functional response
Genotype
Habitat destruction
Herbivore
Host (biology)
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Insect
Insecticide
Instar
Invertebrate
Landscape ecology
Larva
Lepidoptera
Lotka-Volterra equations
Organism
Oviparity
Parasitism
Parasitoid
Parasitoid wasp
Pattern formation
Pest control
Pesticide
Polydnavirus
Population dynamics
Population ecology
Population genetics
Population model
Predation
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Probability
Probability distribution
Pupa
Reaction norm
Reproductive success
Spatial ecology
Spatial heterogeneity
Speciation
Tachinidae
Tent caterpillar
Trade-off
Trophic cascade
Trophic level
Virulence
Product details
- ISBN 9780691049823
- Weight: 510g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 27 Aug 2000
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Extraordinary in the diversity of their lifestyles, insect parasitoids have become extremely important study organisms in the field of population biology, and they are the most frequently used agents in the biological control of insect pests. This book presents the ideas of seventeen international specialists, providing the reader not only with an overview but also with lively discussions of the most salient questions pertaining to the field today and prescriptions for avenues of future research. After a general introduction, the book divides into three main sections: population dynamics, population diversity, and population applications. The first section covers gaps in our knowledge in parasitoid behavior, parasitoid persistence, and how space and landscape affect dynamics. The contributions on population diversity consider how evolution has molded parasitoid populations and communities. The final section calls for novel approaches toward resolving the enigma of success in biological control and questions why parasitoids have been largely neglected in conservation biology.
Parasitoid Population Biology will likely be an important influence on research well into the twenty-first century and will provoke discussion amongst parasitoid biologists and population biologists. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Carlos Bernstein, Jacques Brodeur, Jerome Casas, H.C.J. Godfray, Susan Harrison, Alan Hastings, Bradford A. Hawkins, George E. Heimpel, Marcel Holyoak, Nick Mills, Bernard D. Roitberg, Jens Roland, Michael R. Strand, Teja Tscharntke, and Minus van Baalen.
Michael E. Hochberg is a Research Director with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. A recipient of the Silver Medal of the CNRS in 1997, he employs both empirical and theoretical approaches toward understanding fundamental and applied aspects of evolution in host-parasite associations. Anthony R. Ives is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Zoology and Entomology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a theoretical ecologist who conducts empirical research on aphid pests and their parasitoids in agricultural systems.
