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Author : Friedrich Shimon Bodenheimer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (124 download)
Download or read book Population Problems of Social Insects written by Friedrich Shimon Bodenheimer and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Oliver Milman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324006609
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)
Download or read book The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World written by Oliver Milman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A devastating examination of how collapsing insect populations worldwide threaten everything from wild birds to the food on our plate. From ants scurrying under leaf litter to bees able to fly higher than Mount Kilimanjaro, insects are everywhere. Three out of every four of our planet’s known animal species are insects. In The Insect Crisis, acclaimed journalist Oliver Milman dives into the torrent of recent evidence that suggests this kaleidoscopic group of creatures is suffering the greatest existential crisis in its remarkable 400-million-year history. What is causing the collapse of the insect world? Why does this alarming decline pose such a threat to us? And what can be done to stem the loss of the miniature empires that hold aloft life as we know it? With urgency and great clarity, Milman explores this hidden emergency, arguing that its consequences could even rival climate change. He joins the scientists tracking the decline of insect populations across the globe, including the soaring mountains of Mexico that host an epic, yet dwindling, migration of monarch butterflies; the verdant countryside of England that has been emptied of insect life; the gargantuan fields of U.S. agriculture that have proved a killing ground for bees; and an offbeat experiment in Denmark that shows there aren’t that many bugs splattering into your car windshield these days. These losses not only further tear at the tapestry of life on our degraded planet; they imperil everything we hold dear, from the food on our supermarket shelves to the medicines in our cabinets to the riot of nature that thrills and enlivens us. Even insects we may dread, including the hated cockroach, or the stinging wasp, play crucial ecological roles, and their decline would profoundly shape our own story. By connecting butterfly and bee, moth and beetle from across the globe, the full scope of loss renders a portrait of a crisis that threatens to upend the workings of our collective history. Part warning, part celebration of the incredible variety of insects, The Insect Crisis is a wake-up call for us all.
Author : M. V. Brian
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483266370
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Social Insect Populations written by M. V. Brian and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Insect Populations focuses on observations on the populations of social insects, including egg production, nesting characteristics, and food collection. The book first underscores the evolution of social life and organization and control of social insect populations. The text also ponders on the numbers and density of social insect populations, as well as methods of estimation, numbers in colonies, and density and biomass. Egg production, stationary populations, nest size, productivity, and survival are discussed. The manuscript discusses reproduction and brood periodicity of social insect populations. Discussions focus on reproduction by single and group of queens and reciprocity among bees, wasps, and ants. The text also examines nest sites and shelters, mating structures, and food collection of social insects. Discussions focus on food supply, intergeneric competition, predators and parasites, and population regulation among bees, wasps, termites, and ants. The book is a dependable reference for readers interested in the study of social insect populations.
Author : George F. Oster
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691023618
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (236 download)
Download or read book Caste and Ecology in the Social Insects written by George F. Oster and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pathbreaking and far-reaching work George Oster and Edward Wilson provide the first fully developed theory of caste evolution among the social insects. Furthermore, in studying the effects of natural selection in generally increasing the insects' ergonomic efficiency, they go beyond the concentration of previous researchers on the physiological mechanisms of the insects and turn our attention instead to the scale and efficiency of the insects' division of labor. Recognizing that the efficiency of the insect colony is based on a complex fitting of the division of labor to many simultaneous needs, including those imposed by the distribution of resources and enemies around the nest, Professors Oster and Wilson are able to construct a series of mathematical models to characterize the agents of natural selection that promote particular caste systems. The social insects play a key role in the subject of sociobiology because their social organization is so rigid and can be related to genetic evolution. Because of this important consideration, the authors' work has consequences not only for entomology but also for general evolutionary theory.
Author : S. Bradleigh Vinson
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Economic Impact and Control of Social Insects written by S. Bradleigh Vinson and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1986 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lori Lach
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199544638
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Ant Ecology written by Lori Lach and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible global diversity of ants, and their important ecological roles, mean that we cannot ignore the significance of ants in ecological systems. Ant Ecology takes the reader on a journey of discovery from the beginnings of ants many hundreds of thousands of years ago, through to the makings of present day distributions.
Author : Michael Vaughan Brian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Social Insect Populations written by Michael Vaughan Brian and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dr. Jens Krause
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199679053
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Animal Social Networks written by Dr. Jens Krause and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates the application of network theory to the social organization of animals.
Author : Michael D. Breed
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000314898
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Biology Of Social Insects written by Michael D. Breed and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book internationally known experts provide a comprehensive view of current knowledge of social insect biology including much previously unpublished information. Particular emphasis is given to the relationships between social insects and humans; sections are devoted to economically important social insects, pollination, foraging, and the role of insects in ecosystems and agroecosystems. The authors also discuss communication, behavior and caste within insect colonies. A special section focuses on the neurobiology of social insects. A series of papers considers the presocial insects, which live in family groups but without caste differences. Also well represented are the fields of sociobiology and the origins and evolution of social behavior. The book will be valuable to agricultural scientists as well as to entomologists, sociobiologists, ecologists, ethologists, and natural historians. Endocrinologists and neurobiologists will also find important new material.
Author : Michael Vaughan Brian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (959 download)
Download or read book Social Insect Populations written by Michael Vaughan Brian and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wolf Engels
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642744907
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (427 download)
Download or read book Social Insects written by Wolf Engels and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evolution of Castes in Insects l BERNHARD RENSCH The evolution of organisms in the succession of generations has been primarilly achieved through the appearance of new hereditary variants with minor deviations along with the development of stable structures and functions. Harmful mutants were eradicated either immediately or in the subsequent generations through the process of natural selection while unharmful or advantageous ones usually survived. As this process continued, many new races and species developed which possessed structures and functions of a rational nature and which became increasingly independent from their environment. These evolutionary tendencies were also promoted through either geographical, ecological, physiological or genetical isolation of populations. In some phylogenetic lines, there occurred an increase in the number of cells due to additional cellular divisions in the morphogenesis of structures. This opened up the possibility for the development of the division of labour within cellular groups leading to more complicated and consequently more successful functions of tissues and organs. A further advancement in the adaptation of a species to its environment was made possible through specialization for certain functions of whole individuals or groups of individuals.
Author : M. V. Brian
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9780412229305
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (293 download)
Download or read book Social Insects : Ecology and Behavioral Biology written by M. V. Brian and published by Springer. This book was released on 1983-09-22 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food; Foraging by individuals; Foraging in groups; Cativity nests and soil mounds; Nests of fibre, silk and wax; Microclimate; Defence; Food processing Early population growth; Maturation; Reproduction; Evolution; of insect societes; Colonies; Comparative ecology of congeneric species; Communities; Two themes.
Author : Royal Norton Chapman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (163 download)
Download or read book Insect Population Problems in Relation to Insect Outbreak written by Royal Norton Chapman and published by . This book was released on with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Vaughan Brian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Social Insect Population written by Michael Vaughan Brian and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Vaughan Brian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Social Insects Populations written by Michael Vaughan Brian and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George F. Oster
Publisher : Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9780608029474
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (294 download)
Download or read book Caste and Ecology in the Social Insects written by George F. Oster and published by Books on Demand. This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dustin R. Rubenstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108132634
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Comparative Social Evolution written by Dustin R. Rubenstein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-24 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darwin famously described special difficulties in explaining social evolution in insects. More than a century later, the evolution of sociality - defined broadly as cooperative group living - remains one of the most intriguing problems in biology. Providing a unique perspective on the study of social evolution, this volume synthesizes the features of animal social life across the principle taxonomic groups in which sociality has evolved. The chapters explore sociality in a range of species, from ants to primates, highlighting key natural and life history data and providing a comparative view across animal societies. In establishing a single framework for a common, trait-based approach towards social synthesis, this volume will enable graduate students and investigators new to the field to systematically compare taxonomic groups and reinvigorate comparative approaches to studying animal social evolution.
