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Book Synopsis Radar Entomology by : V. Alistair Drake
Download or read book Radar Entomology written by V. Alistair Drake and published by CABI. This book was released on 2012 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the world's most serious agricultural pests are highly migratory. Through the use of special-purpose radars we are provided with insights into their movement and how they learn about and navigate through their environment. This text examines the behaviour and regional variations of these species, as well as the altitude of migration, concentration of insects in layers and how they respond to large and small-scale wind systems. The book relates radar observation of insect movement to complementary and competing methodologies and surveys its capabilities and limitations. It also deals wi
Book Synopsis Evolution of Insect Migration and Diapause by : H. Dingle
Download or read book Evolution of Insect Migration and Diapause written by H. Dingle and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is an outgrowth of a Symposium entitled "Evolution of Escape in Space and Time" held at the XV International Congress of Entomology in Washington, D. C., USA in August, 1976. The choice of topic was prompted by recent advances in evolutionary ecology and the apparent suitability of insect migration and dia pause as appropriate material for evolutionary studies. In the event, that choice seems amply justified as I hope a perusal of these papers will show. These Sympos ium papers hardly cover the topic of the evolution of escape mechanisms exhaustively, and I am sure everyone will have his favorite lacuna. Some of the more obvious ones are indicated by Professor Southwood in his Concluding Remarks at the end of the book. The purpose of the Symposium, however, was not complete coverage, but rather to indicate the potential inherent in insect migration and diapause for the study of evolutionary problems. In that I think we have succeeded reasonably well. These papers are expanded and in some cases somewhat altered versions of the papers delivered in Washington. This has allowed greater coverage of the topics in question. I suggested a format of a general overview of a topic emphasizing the author's own research con tributions. In general the papers follow this outline although emphases vary. Two of the authors, Dr. Rainey and Dr. Lumme, were unable to attend the Symposium. Dr. Rainey's paper was read by Mr. Frank Walsh, but Dr.
Book Synopsis Biotic Borders by : Jeannie N. Shinozuka
Download or read book Biotic Borders written by Jeannie N. Shinozuka and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-04-20 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This timely book reveals how the increase in traffic of transpacific plants, insects, and peoples raised fears of a "biological yellow peril" beginning in the late nineteenth century, when mass quantities of nursery stock and other agricultural products were shipped from large, corporate nurseries in Japan to meet the growing demand for exotics in the United States. Jeannie Shinozuka marshals extensive research to explain how the categories of "native" and "invasive" defined groups as bio-invasions that must be regulated-or somehow annihilated-during a period of American empire-building. Shinozuka shows how the modern fixation on foreign species provided a linguistic and conceptual arsenal for anti-immigration movements that gained ground in the early twentieth century. Xenophobia fed concerns about biodiversity, and in turn facilitated the implementation of plant quarantine measures while also valuing, and devaluing, certain species over others. The emergence and rise of economic entomology and plant pathology alongside public health and anti-immigration movements was not merely coincidental. Ultimately, what this book unearths is that the inhumane and unjust incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II cannot, and should not, be disentangled from this longer history"--
Book Synopsis The Art of Migration by : Peggy Macnamara
Download or read book The Art of Migration written by Peggy Macnamara and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tiny ruby-throated hummingbirds weighing less than a nickel fly from the upper Midwest to Costa Rica every fall, crossing the six-hundred-mile Gulf of Mexico without a single stop. One of the many creatures that commute on the Mississippi Flyway as part of an annual migration, they pass along Chicago’s lakefront and through midwestern backyards on a path used by their species for millennia. This magnificent migrational dance takes place every year in Chicagoland, yet it is often missed by the region’s two-legged residents. The Art of Migration uncovers these extraordinary patterns that play out over the seasons. Readers are introduced to over two hundred of the birds and insects that traverse regions from the edge of Lake Superior to Lake Michigan and to the rivers that flow into the Mississippi. As the only artist in residence at the Field Museum, Peggy Macnamara has a unique vantage point for studying these patterns and capturing their distinctive traits. Her magnificent watercolor illustrations capture flocks, movement, and species-specific details. The illustrations are accompanied by text from museum staff and include details such as natural histories, notable features for identification, behavior, and how species have adapted to environmental changes. The book follows a gentle seasonal sequence and includes chapters on studying migration, artist’s notes on illustrating wildlife, and tips on the best ways to watch for birds and insects in the Chicago area. A perfect balance of science and art, The Art of Migration will prompt us to marvel anew at the remarkable spectacle going on around us.
Book Synopsis Insect Migration by : V. Alistair Drake
Download or read book Insect Migration written by V. Alistair Drake and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-09-14 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive account of insect migration in its ecological and evolutionary context.
Book Synopsis Insect Migration by : Shannon Anderson
Download or read book Insect Migration written by Shannon Anderson and published by North Star Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers young readers an exciting look at insect migration, focusing on the reasons these insects make their journeys and the places they travel to. The book also includes an "Animal Spotlight" special feature, fun facts, a table of contents, quiz questions, a glossary, additional resources, and an index.
Download or read book Insect Migration written by Liz Oram and published by Steck-Vaughn. This book was released on 1992 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses how insects such as wasps, army ants, locusts, and various butterflies and moths migrate and the purpose of these voyages.
Author :Wijesiri Danthanarayana Publisher :Springer Science & Business Media ISBN 13 :3642711553 Total Pages :297 pages Book Rating :4.6/5 (427 download)
Book Synopsis Insect Flight by : Wijesiri Danthanarayana
Download or read book Insect Flight written by Wijesiri Danthanarayana and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Monarch Butterflies: A Generational Journey by : Rebecca Hirsch
Download or read book Monarch Butterflies: A Generational Journey written by Rebecca Hirsch and published by Weigl Publishers. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the seasons change, many animals migrate to new homes. Readers will learn about these fascinating creatures in Nature’s Great Journeys. This series explores the physical features, behaviors, and histories of migratory animals with easy-to-read text and vivid images. This is an AV2 media enhanced book. A unique book code printed on page 2 unlocks multimedia content. This book comes alive with video, audio, weblinks, slide shows, activities, quizzes, and much more.
Download or read book Migration written by Hugh Dingle and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Migration, broadly defined as directional movement to take advantage of spatially distributed resources, is a dramatic behaviour and an important component of many life histories that can contribute to the fundamental structuring of ecosystems. In recent years, our understanding of migration has advanced radically with respect to both new data and conceptual understanding. It is now almost twenty years since publication of the first edition, and an authoritative and up-to-date sequel that provides a taxonomically comprehensive overview of the latest research is therefore timely. The emphasis throughout this advanced textbook is on the definition and description of migratory behaviour, its ecological outcomes for individuals, populations, and communities, and how these outcomes lead to natural selection acting on the behaviour to cause its evolution. It takes a truly integrative approach, showing how comparisons across a diversity of organisms and biological disciplines can illuminate migratory life cycles, their evolution, and the relation of migration to other movements. Migration: The Biology of Life on the Move focuses on migration as a behavioural phenomenon with important ecological consequences for organisms as diverse as aphids, butterflies, birds and whales. It is suitable for senior undergraduate and graduate level students taking courses in behaviour, spatial ecology, 'movement ecology', and conservation. It will also be of interest and use to a broader audience of professional ecologists and behaviourists seeking an authoritative overview of this rapidly expanding field.
Book Synopsis Insect Migration (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 36) by : C. B. Williams
Download or read book Insect Migration (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 36) written by C. B. Williams and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlighting the significance of the widespread distribution of the migratory habit throughout the insect world. This edition is exclusive to newnaturalists.com
Book Synopsis Migration and Dispersal of Insects by Flight by : Cecil George Johnson
Download or read book Migration and Dispersal of Insects by Flight written by Cecil George Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Migration and dispersal; Migratory and non-migratory flight; Classes of migration; The beginning of migration; Individual aspects; Flight maturation, Take-off, and the exodus flight; The air speed and the intrinsic duration and range of flight; The orientation of migrants; Migration in relation to mating, sexual development and oviposition; The control of spontaneous locomotor activity a prerequisite for migratory flight; Casual aspects of migratory flight; Colletive aspects; The numbers of insects flying in relation to wether; The periodicity and synchronization of migration; The Composition of aerial populations and the vertical distribution of insects in the air; Selected examples of short-range and medium-range displacement especially in relation to the life-histories of the insects; Diptera; Coleoptera; Hemiptera; Lepidoptera. The idea randon dispersal, and of the deminution of density away from a source, in relation to migratory flight. General systems of air movement involved in longrange sispolacement. Hemiptera. Lepidoptera. The displacement of swarms of the desert locust schistocerca gregaria. Migration through mountain passes and along sea coats. The invasion of habitats. The ecological significance of migration and of flightlessness.
Download or read book Insect Migration written by and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Experimental Analysis of Insect Behaviour by : L.B. Browne
Download or read book Experimental Analysis of Insect Behaviour written by L.B. Browne and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume has come about as a direct result of a Symposium entitled "Experimental Analysis of Insect Behaviour" which was an important con tribution to the 14 International Congress of Entomology held in Canberra, Australia, in August 1972 under the joint sponsorship of the Australian Academy of Science and the Australian Entomological Society. It is not, however, strictly Symposium proceedings. I have included, in this volume contributions from several workers who had to withdraw from the Symposium at a fairly late stage. Furthermore, quite intentionally, a number of the contributions bear only a general relationship to the papers given at the Congress. To permit this; the deadline for contribu tions was set at some six months after the Symposium. I imposed no restrictions on the form of the contributions. I did, however, indicate that speculative reviews highlighting the author's own recent research or that of his immediate colleagues would be particularly acceptable, and a number of the contributors have taken the opportunity to write this kind of paper. Several contributors, notably those whose task it was to give more general papers in the Symposium itself, have written reviews of somewhat greater scope.
Book Synopsis Biophysics of Insect Flight by : N. Chari
Download or read book Biophysics of Insect Flight written by N. Chari and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book basically involves the study of flight parameters, wing beat frequency, moment of inertia, and wing movements for developing various aerodynamic forces which have been calculated. The book is intended for biologists, physicists, nanotechnologists, and aerospace engineers. Resilin, an elastic polymer (4 λ) which is present at the base of insect, plays a major role in Neurogenic and Myogenic insect flyers and influences the physiology of flight muscles. Leading edge vortex (LEV) is a special feature of insect flight. Insect wings have stalling angle above 60 degrees as compared to a man-made aeroplane stalling angle which is 16 degree. Reynolds number, the knowledge of LEV, and detailed study of moment of inertia help in developing flapping flexible wings for micro-aerial-vehicles. This book serves as an interface between biologists and engineers interested to develop biomimicking micro-aerial-vehicles. The contents of this book is useful to researchers and professionals alike.
Book Synopsis Insect Migration by : Cecil George Johnson
Download or read book Insect Migration written by Cecil George Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Insect Behavior by : Alex Córdoba-Aguilar
Download or read book Insect Behavior written by Alex Córdoba-Aguilar and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-19 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
