Insect Behavior: From Mechanisms to Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences

Cordoba-aguilar, Alex (Editor)/ Gonzalez-tokman, Daniel (Editor)/ Gonzalez-santoyo, Isaac (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0198797508 / ISBN 13: 9780198797500

Published by Oxford Univ Pr, 2018

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448 pages. 10.00x7.75x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Insect Behavior: From Mechanisms to Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences
• Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198797508
• ISBN 13: 9780198797500
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 1.07 kilograms

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Alex Cordoba-Aguilar, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico,Daniel Gonzalez-Tokman, Instituto de Ecologia, Mexico,Isaac Gonzalez-Santoyo, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

Alex Cordoba-Aguilar completed his PhD at Sheffield University and has been a researcher at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico since 2003.



Daniel Gonzalez-Tokman did his doctoral studies at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and has been a researcher at the Instituto de Ecologia, A. C. since 2015.


Isaac Gonzalez-Santoyo did his doctoral studies at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and has been a lecturer in the same university since 2015.