Biology of Grasshoppers - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471609013 ISBN 13: 9780471609018

Publisher: Wiley-Interscience, 1990

Synopsis

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About this title

From the Publisher:

This volume presents diverse biological aspects of grasshoppers, a group of insects that includes locusts and that is of major importance in research and pest control. Advances made possible by new methods and technological development are emphasized such as electron microscopy, radar studies of insect movements, modern methods in population biology, as are developments in ecophysiology. Coverage includes chemoreception, food selection, water and temperature regulation, chemical communication, pathogenic diseases and color pattern polymorphism.

From the Inside Flap:

The often mythic status accorded migratory locust plagues and the severe economic impact of which they, along with grasshoppers, are capable have been a chief motive behind research into those insects. But acridoids are also ideal organisms for studying problems of basic biology, not to mention their significance in a number of other areas of research. That they are interesting subjects of research is one of the premises at work in this book. The other is that a multidimensional view of acridoids is necessary to appreciate fully their observable biological responses. Reflecting the considerable refinement in research techniques that has occurred since Uvarov’s classic on physiology and behavior of Acridoidea, this book offers new information in the field made possible by the advent of radar and electron microscopy, recent developments in electrophysiology, and new paradigms, especially in approaches to population biology. Biology of Grasshoppers comprises articles authored by a number of specialists in a variety of related disciplines. Among the topics covered are:

• Chemoreception, food selection, feeding, nutrition
• Water and temperature regulation
• Pheromones, chemical communication, mating systems
• Flight and migration, population dynamics
• Pathogenic diseases and color pattern polymorphism

With studies ranging from the molecular to the evolutionary scales, Biology of Grasshoppers presents a diversity of topics in a context that emphasizes the functioning of the whole organism. Providing many insights into general biological principles through the study of Acridoidea, its organismal approach juxtaposes chapters from scientists with very different backgrounds to provide links among disciplines that are too often ignored.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0471609013
• ISBN 13: 9780471609018
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 576
• Editor: Chapman R. F., Joern A.