Insect Behavior: From Mechanisms to Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198797516 ISBN 13: 9780198797517

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2018

Synopsis

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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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198797516
• ISBN 13: 9780198797517
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416
• Editor: Córdoba-Aguilar Alex, González-Tokman Daniel, González-Santoyo Isaac