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Résumé :
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This textbook is unique in integrating insect adaptations to environmental conditions with their ability to substantially alter their environment, over a range of hierarchical resolution from individual insects that respond to local environmental variation and affect resource distribution through their foraging activities to communities that have the capacity to modify, and perhaps stabilize, ecosystem conditions. This new edition is a complete course in modern ecology from the vantage point of insects in ecological systems. Accessible and engaging, yet it treats the most complex ecological phenomena from individual behavior and population processes through landscape and regional-scale issues. The following chapters are presented: 1 Overview, 2 Responses to Abiotic Conditions, 3 Resource Acquisition, 4 Resource Allocation, 5 Population Systems, 6 Population Dynamics, 7 Biogeography, 8 Species Interactions, 9 Community Structure, 10 Community Dynamics, 11 Ecosystem Structure and Function, 12 Herbivory, 13 Pollination, Seed Predation and Seed Dispersal, 14 Decomposition and Pedogenesis, 15 Insects as Regulators of Ecosystem Processes, 16 Synthesis.
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