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Insect Movement : Mechanisms and Consequences.
Title:
Insect Movement : Mechanisms and Consequences.
Author:
Woiwod, I.P.
ISBN:
9780851997810
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (468 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction and Overview -- 2 The Biomechanics and Functional Diversity of Flight -- 3 How Insect Wings Evolved -- 4 Physiology and Endocrine Control of Flight -- 5 Insect Behaviours Associated with Resource Finding -- 6 Host Location by Parasitoids -- 7 Flight Trajectories of Foraging Insects: Observations Using Harmonic Radar -- 8 The Evolution of Migratory Syndromes in Insects -- 9 Orientation Mechanisms and Migration Strategies Within the Flight Boundary Layer -- 10 Characterizing Insect Migration Systems in Inland Australia with Novel and Traditional Methodologies -- 11 Significance of Habitat Persistence and Dimensionality in the Evolution of Insect Migration Strategies -- 12 Predation and the Evolution of Dispersal -- 13 Evolution of Mass Transit Systems in Ants: a Tale of Two Societies -- 14 Dispersal and Conservation in Heterogeneous Landscapes -- 15 Scale, Dispersal and Population Structure -- 16 Gene Flow -- 17 Use of Genetic Diversity in Movement Studies of Flying Insects -- 18 Coping with Modern Times? Insect Movement and Climate Change -- 19 Analysing and Modelling Range Changes in UK Butterflies -- Index.
Abstract:
Insect movement is a subject that has seen many advances in the 1980s and 1990s. This book is based on the main papers presented at the Royal Entomological Society's 20th Symposium on this topic, held in September 1999.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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