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Insect Herbivore-Host Dynamics: Tree-Dwelling Aphids »
Authors: A. F. G. Dixon
ISBN-13: 9780521802321, ISBN-10: 0521802326
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: March 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: A. F. G. Dixon
A. F. G.Dixon is an Emeritus Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of East Anglia. He has written over 200 papers on aphids and their natural enemies in scientific journals, and has written or edited 10 books. In 1992, he was awarded the Gregor Mendel Gold Medal by the Czech Academy of Science, in 2000 a medal of honour by Akademia Podlaska, Poland, and in 2001 became Laureate of the University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic.
Book Synopsis
Introduces students and research workers to insect herbivore-host dynamics using the interaction between aphids and trees as a model.
Table of Contents
| 1 | Introduction | 1 |
| 2 | Tree-dwelling aphids | 6 |
| 3 | Trees as a habitat : relations of aphids to trees | 18 |
| 4 | Trees as a habitat : relations of aphids to their natural enemies | 43 |
| 5 | Carrying capacity of trees | 54 |
| 6 | Aphid abundance | 64 |
| 7 | Population dynamics | 93 |
| 8 | Risky dispersal | 122 |
| 9 | Seasonal sex allocation | 136 |
| 10 | Aphids and tree fitness | 147 |
| 11 | Rarity, conservation and global warming | 162 |
Subjects
Science & Nature
Biology Biology - Entomology
Science & Nature Biology Botany - General & Miscellaneous
Science & Nature Nature Arthropods - Insects - General
Science & Nature All Science & Nature Agricultural Sciences
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Nature Arthropods - Insects - GeneralScience & Nature
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