Biology of the Springtails - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Biology of the Springtails write by Stephen P. Hopkin. This book was released on 1997-02-27. Biology of the Springtails available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Springtails are the most numerous and wide-spread insects in terrestrial ecosystems. They are important ecotoxicological test organisms and have been used extensively to indicate the effects of environmental pollutants and different agricultural regimes on biodiversity in soils. This comprehensive work by the co-author of The biology of millipedes is the only single-volume review of the biology of springtails in the English language to appear this century. The book covers classification, behaviour, physiology, evolution, ecology, and ecotoxicology. An extensive reference section with more than 2500 entries is included together with a complete list of all Collembola genera, a list of studies on the effects of chemicals on springtails, and reference to species checklists for most countries of the world.
A Key to the Collembola (springtails) of Britain and Ireland
A Key to the Collembola (springtails) of Britain and Ireland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Key to the Collembola (springtails) of Britain and Ireland write by Steve P. Hopkin. This book was released on 2007. A Key to the Collembola (springtails) of Britain and Ireland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Social Biology of Wasps
The Social Biology of Wasps - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Social Biology of Wasps write by Kenneth G. Ross. This book was released on 2018-08-06. The Social Biology of Wasps available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this edited collection, 17 internationally known authorities bring together the results of recent research on the natural history, ecology, behavior, morphology, and genetics of wasps as they pertain to the evolution of social behavior. The first part of the book opens with a review of the classification of the family Vespidae along with a revision of the subfamily Polistinae. Seven subsequent chapters deal with the natural history and social biology of each of the major taxa of social and presocial vespids. The second part of the book offers chapters on reproductive competition; worker polyethism; evolution of nest architecture, of queen number and queen control, and of exocrine glands; population genetics; the nutritional bsis of social evolution; and the nest as the locus of social life. The final chapter is a comparative discussion of social behavior in the Sphecidae, the only family of wasps besides the Vespidae in which well-developed social behavior is known. Providing a wealth of information about the biology of wasps, this comprehensive, up-to-date volume will be an essential reference for entomologists, evolutionary biologists, behavioral ecologists, ethologists, and zoologists. Contributors: James M. Carpenter. David P. Cowan. Holly A Downing. Raghavendra Gadagkar. Albert Greene. James H. Hunt. Robert L. Jeanne. Makoto Matsuura. Robert W. Matthews. Hudson K. Reeve. PeterFrank Roseler. Kenneth G. Ross. J. Philip Spradbery. Christopher K. Starr. Stefano Turillazzi. John W. Wenzel. Mary Jane West-Eberhard.
Insect Physiological Ecology
Insect Physiological Ecology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Insect Physiological Ecology write by Steven L. Chown. This book was released on 2004-07-15. Insect Physiological Ecology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides a modern, synthetic overview of interactions between insects and their environments from a physiological perspective that integrates information across a range of approaches and scales. It shows that evolved physiological responses at the individual level are translated into coherent physiological and ecological patterns at larger, even global scales. This is done by examining in detail the ways in which insects obtain resources from the environment, process these resources in various ways, and turn the results into energy which allows them to regulate their internal environment as well as cope with environmental extremes of temperature and water availability. The book demonstrates that physiological responses are not only characterized by substantial temporal variation, but also shows coherent variation across several spatial scales. At the largest, global scale, there appears to be substantial variation associated with the hemisphere in which insects are found. Such variation has profound implications for patterns of biodiversity as well as responses to climate change, and these implications are explicitly discussed. The book provides a novel integration of the understanding gained from broad-scale field studies of many species and the more narrowly focused laboratory investigations of model organisms. In so doing it reflects the growing realization that an integration of mechanistic and large-scale comparative physiology can result in unexpected insights into the diversity of insects.
Biology of the Springtails. Insecta
Biology of the Springtails. Insecta - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Biology of the Springtails. Insecta write by S. P. Hopkin. This book was released on 1997. Biology of the Springtails. Insecta available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. General introduction. Review of the literature on springtails. Evolution, systematics and biogeography. Ecomorphology and anatomy. Taxonomic methods and the species concept in collembola. Interactions between collembola and the abiotic environment. Interactions between collembola and the biotic environment. Reproduction, development and life histories. Ecology and conservation. Ecotoxicology. World genera of collembola. Regional checklists of collembola. Laboratory and field studies on the effects of chemicals on collembola.
