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9780198797517: Insect Behavior: From Mechanisms to Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences
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ISBN 10: 0198797516 ISBN 13: 9780198797517
Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, 2018

Sinossi

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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Informazioni sull?autore

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.

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Editore
Oxford University Press
Data di pubblicazione
2018
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0198797516
ISBN 13 
9780198797517
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
414
Redattore
Córdoba-Aguilar Alex, González-Tokman Daniel, González-Santoyo Isaac
Contatto del produttore
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9780198797500: Insect Behavior: From Mechanisms to Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0198797508 ISBN 13:  9780198797500
Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2018
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