Population and Community Ecology for Insect Management and Conservation

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ISBN: 9789054109303 | 9054109300
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Copyright: 6/1/1998

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One of the themes of the 20th International Congress of Entomology held in Florence in August 1996 was ecology and population dynamics, with papers presented on single species dynamics, population interactions, and community ecology. This text contains a selection of the papers that were presented, and gives and late-1990s picture of the developing area. It should be of interest to biometricians and general population ecolgists, as well as entomologists.

Preface
Single species dynamics
Sampling and modelling of insect populations	p. 3
Measures of spatial pattern and spatial association for insect counts	p. 21
Simulation models of the dynamics of the sheep blowfly, Lucilia sericata	p. 35
Mathematical models for age-structured population dynamics: An overview	p. 45
The impact of behavioural thermoregulation on reproductive rates in a grasshopper	p. 63
Extinction and the variability of populations	p. 75
Some problems and approaches to modelling insect phenology	p. 89
Quantitative analysis of gypsy moth spread in the Central Appalachians	p. 99
Testing for correlation in the presence of spatial autocorrelation in insect count data	p. 111
Does host-plant exploitation influence the population dynamics of a rare weevil?	p. 119
Dynamics of Clavigralla tomentosicollis in cowpea and trap influence on adult infestation	p. 125
Metapopulation structure of Carabus problematicus in a fragmented landscape, significance of simulation results for nature conservation	p. 133
The age structure in a local population of Carabus auronitens under the influence of an abiotic key factor for reproduction	p. 145
Adult longevity - A factor stabilizing the abundance of a Laemostenus schreibersi population (Coleoptera, Carabidae)	p. 157
Population interactions
The population dynamic role of parasitoids: Some inroads to a synthesis	p. 169
Simulation of whitefly biological control, based on behaviour of individual parasitoids	p. 175
Complex population dynamics in a host-pathogen-parasitoid interaction	p. 183
Community ecology
The relevance of life-history theory for carabid species of Western Europe	p. 193
Randomization test for the similarity index of communities	p. 205
Mechanisms and properties of ratio-dependent multitrophic models with particular reference to logistic food webs	p. 211
Carabid population and community features as an 'adaptation' to the landscape system: Importance of the ecotope as a landscape unit	p. 227
Temporal spacing, competition and aggregation in Aphodius-dominated dung beetle communities	p. 243
Author index	p. 253
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