The Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Host-Parasitoid Interactions (Hardcover)

Language: English

Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000

0198540892 / 9780198540892

Series: Book 5 of 25 - Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution

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Hardcover. This book examines our current understanding of the population dynamics of one kind of interaction - that between insect parasitoids and their hosts. Parasitoids are amongst the most abundant of all animals, and make up about 10% or more of metazoan species. Almost no insect species escape their attack. Host-parasitoid interactions were first modelled over fifty years ago, but for many years there was little good empirical information on the important factors thataffect host and parasitoid populations. The models were very simple, and their predictions rather divorced from the complexity of what was visible in the field. Now, better data is available on manycomponents of host-parasitoid systems, from field observations and laboratory and field experiments, and this allows a much closer correspondence between models and data. In particular, the past twenty years have seen major advances in our understanding of how host-parasitoid interactions are influenced by spatial processes, by age-structure effects, and by competition from additional host and parasitoid species. The result is a body of theory that makes direct contact with real systems inthe field, and provides us with a detailed understanding of what underpins a whole area of population dynamics. In this book, Michael P Hassell pulls the theory and field data together to present anelegant illustration of the way in which ecological studies advance. Michael P Hassell examines the population dynamics of the interaction between insect parasitoids and their hosts. He incorporates all the major recent advances in our understanding of these interactions to show how the resulting body of theory makes direct contact with systems in the field. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Title
The Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Host-Parasitoid Interactions (Hardcover)
Author
Michael Hassell
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Oxford
Publication year
2000
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new
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
ISBN 10
0198540892
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9780198540892
Series
Book 5 of 25: Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution

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