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Social Insects And The Environment
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Author :International Union for the Study of Social Insects. Congress Publisher :Brill Archive ISBN 13 :9789004093164 Total Pages :814 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (931 download)
Book Synopsis Social Insects and the Environment by : International Union for the Study of Social Insects. Congress
Download or read book Social Insects and the Environment written by International Union for the Study of Social Insects. Congress and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1990 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Social Insects and the Environment by : Viraktamath
Download or read book Social Insects and the Environment written by Viraktamath and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-10-09 with total page 797 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume includes 370 papers presented by leading scientists at the 11th International Congress of IUSSI at Bangalore, from August 5-11, 1990. The papers which have been classified into 30 sections relate to the symposia papers of the Congress. These cover various frontiers of research on social insects such as evolution of sociality, polygyny, social polymorphism, kin-recognition, kin- selection, foraging strategies, reproductive strategies, biogeography and phylogenetics of bees and ants pollination ecology and management of pestiferous social insects. The most important feature about these papers in this publication is that the results are presented in a crisp, brief and precise manner. Because of the brevity it has been possible to bring together, in one publication, almost all aspects of research on social insects from all parts of the world. The time between presentation of papers at a Congress and publication has been avoided by publishing this volume on the eve of the Congress and this enables scientists to refer to the results immediately.
Book Synopsis Caste and Ecology in the Social Insects by : George F. Oster
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.
Book Synopsis Food Exploitation By Social Insects by : Stefan Jarau
Download or read book Food Exploitation By Social Insects written by Stefan Jarau and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2009-05-21 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Omnipresent in virtually all terrestrial ecosystems and of undisputed ecological and economical importance, the study of social insects is an area that continues to attract a vast number of researchers. As a consequence, a huge amount of information about their biology and ecology has accumulated. Distilling this scattered information into a highly focused reference, Food Exploitation by Social Insects: Ecological, Behavioral, and Theoretical Approaches unites traditional behavioral and ecological studies with theoretical and mathematical models. The book covers foraging ecology and behavior of social insects, their communication mechanisms, and theoretical models of important aspects. It examines two different but inseparably interlaced levels of social insect foraging: the macroscopic or colony level and the microscopic or individual level. The chapters include discussions of foraging decisions, patterns and strategies of social insect colonies, and information use and information transfer between workers. The book provides examples of how this biological knowledge can be used as a basis for the construction of mathematical and neural network models that in return may increase understanding of social insect foraging. The contributors provide a fresh look on their topics, covering a wide range of subjects and recent scientific developments that are unprecedented in breadth and depth. The coverage of ants, bees, and wasps in one resource is a unique feature of the book. This taxonomic content combined with the variety of research approaches, allows the book to provide deeper insight into the subject.
Book Synopsis Social insects and the environment : proceedings of the 11th International Congress of IUSSI, 1990 (International Union for the Study of Social Insects) by : G.K. Veeresh
Download or read book Social insects and the environment : proceedings of the 11th International Congress of IUSSI, 1990 (International Union for the Study of Social Insects) written by G.K. Veeresh and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 765 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Interindividual Behavioral Variability In Social Insects by : Robert L. Jeanne
Download or read book Interindividual Behavioral Variability In Social Insects written by Robert L. Jeanne and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents empirical studies of some aspect of the phenomenon of variability in social insect behavior. It illustrates the range of ways colony members can differ from one another and interprets the variability in terms of the external environment, social context, or individual experience.
Book Synopsis Information Processing in Social Insects by : Claire Detrain
Download or read book Information Processing in Social Insects written by Claire Detrain and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claire Detrain, Jean-Louis Deneubourg and Jacques Pasteels Studies on insects have been pioneering in major fields of modern biology. In the 1970 s, research on pheromonal communication in insects gave birth to the dis cipline of chemical ecology and provided a scientific frame to extend this approach to other animal groups. In the 1980 s, the theory of kin selection, which was initially formulated by Hamilton to explain the rise of eusociality in insects, exploded into a field of research on its own and found applications in the under standing of community structures including vertebrate ones. In the same manner, recent studies, which decipher the collective behaviour of insect societies, might be now setting the stage for the elucidation of information processing in animals. Classically, problem solving is assumed to rely on the knowledge of a central unit which must take decisions and collect all pertinent information. However, an alternative method is extensively used in nature: problems can be collectively solved through the behaviour of individuals, which interact with each other and with the environment. The management of information, which is a major issue of animal behaviour, is interesting to study in a social life context, as it raises addi tional questions about conflict-cooperation trade-oft's. Insect societies have proven particularly open to experimental analysis: one can easily assemble or disassemble them and place them in controllable situations in the laboratory.
Book Synopsis The Biology Of Social Insects by : Michael D. Breed
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.
Book Synopsis Success and Dominance in Ecosystems by : Edward O. Wilson
Download or read book Success and Dominance in Ecosystems written by Edward O. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pheromone Communication In Social Insects by : Robert K Vander Meer
Download or read book Pheromone Communication In Social Insects written by Robert K Vander Meer and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together for the first time prominent researchers in social insect pheromone communication, including nestmate recognition, this book looks at ants, wasps, bees, and termites, highlighting areas of convergence and divergence among these groups, and identifying areas that need further investigation. Presenting broad synthetic overviews as well as species-specific studies, the volume will be useful to natural scientists, ecologists, and those interested in pest management, as well as to anyone interested in the fascinating chemically mediated behavioral interactions of social insects.
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.
Book Synopsis Caste and Ecology in the Social Insects by : George F. Oster
Download or read book Caste and Ecology in the Social Insects written by George F. Oster and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 352 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.
Book Synopsis Debugging the Link between Social Theory and Social Insects by : Diane M. Rodgers
Download or read book Debugging the Link between Social Theory and Social Insects written by Diane M. Rodgers and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, natural and social scientists began comparing certain insects to human social organization. Entomologists theorized that social insects -- such as ants, bees, wasps, and termites -- organize themselves into highly specialized, hierarchical divisions of labor. Using a distinctly human vocabulary that reflected the dominant social structure of the time, they described insects as queens, workers, and soldiers and categorized their behaviors with words like marriage, slavery, farming, and factories. At the same time, sociologists working to develop a model for human organization compared people to insects, relying on the same premise that humans arrange themselves hierarchically. In Debugging the Link between Social Theory and Social Insects, Diane M. Rodgers explains how these co-constructed theories reinforced one another, thereby naturalizing Western conceptions of race, class, and gender as they gained prominence in popular culture and the scientific world.Using a critical science studies perspective not previously applied to research on social insect symbolism, Rodgers attempts to "debug" this theoretical co-construction. She provides sufficient background information to accommodate readers unfamiliar with entomology -- including in-depth explanations of the terms used in the research and discussion of social insects, particularly the insect sociality scale. The entire premise of sociality for insects depends on a dominant understanding of high/low civilization standards -- particularly the tenets of a specialized division of labor and hierarchy -- comparisons that appear to be informed by nineteenth-century colonial thought. Placing these theories in a historical and cross-cultural context, Rodgers explains why hierarchical ideas gained prominence, despite the existence of opposing theories in the literature, and how they resulted in an inhibiting vocabulary that relies more heavily on metaphors than on description. Such analysis is necessary, Rodgers argues, because it sheds light both on newly proposed scientific models and on future changes in human social structures. Contemporary scientists have begun to challenge the traditional understanding of insect social organization and to propose new interdisciplinary models that combine ideas about social insect and human organizational structure with computer technologies. Without a thorough understanding of how the old models came about, residual language and embedded assumptions may remain and continue to reinforce hierarchical social constructions.This intriguing interdisciplinary book makes an important contribution to the history -- and future -- of science and sociology.
Book Synopsis Biosystematics of Social Insects by : Philip Edwin Howse
Download or read book Biosystematics of Social Insects written by Philip Edwin Howse and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polymorphism and maintenance factors; Intraspecific variation in ants of the genus formica L.; The taxonomy of the formica rufa group: chaos before order; Phylogenetic relationships and origin of social parasitism in vespidae and in bombus and psithyrus as revealed by enzyme genes; Enzymatic polymorphism in the european population of various reticulitermes species (Isoptera); The pallens morph of the ant leptothorax nylanderi: description, formal genetics, and study of populations; The electropthoretic determination of myrmica rubra microgynes as a social parasite and the possible significance in the evolution of ant social parasites; Aspects of genetic variability in apis mellifera L.; Correlation between b chromosome frequency and solitary phenotype production in crowded populations treated with CO2 in different strains of Locusta migratoria L.; Multivariate statistical aids to the biosystematics of social insects; A biometric investigation of variation of workers of myrmica ruginodis Nylander (formicidae); Revision of the genus messor (Harvesting ants) on a biometrical basis; Morphometric analysis of populations from four different types of mounds of the Indian termite Odontotermes obesus (Rambur); Sex pheromones in social insects: chemotaxonomic potential; Complexity of bumble bee marking pheromones: biochemical, ecological and systematical interpretations; Comparative study of pheromones emitted by different species of myrmica; Variation in the chemistry of the frontal gland secretion of european reticulitermes species; Biological and systematic relationships of social parasitic leptothoracini from europe and north america; Systematics and geographical variation in the bombinae; Two mound types of macrotermes near Kajiado (Kenya), intraspecific variation or interspecific divergence?; The abdominal epidermal glands of termites and their phylogenetic sgnificance; The pupa-carrying test as a taxonomic tool in the formica rufa group; Differences in behaviour of geographical races of reticulitermes species; Polyethism and population genetics; Mechanisms of species isolation in termites; Reproductive isolating mechanisms among species of microtermes (Isoptera, termitidae) in the southern Guinea savanna near Mokwa, Nigeria; Résumés.
Book Synopsis Social Insects V4 by : Henry Hermani
Download or read book Social Insects V4 written by Henry Hermani and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Insects, Volume IV is the last installment of a four-volume treatise and is dedicated to the discussion on wasps and ants. Comprised of four chapters, this volume focuses on the sociality of various types of ants as their group has very diverse habits. The first chapter describes the general biology and behavior of social wasps and discusses the cyclical populations, nest associates, and communal defense of wasps. Chapter 2 introduces the broad and general overview of the biology of ants, including their behavior, food collection, and nest construction. Chapters 3 and 4 present the biology of army and fungus ants, respectively. This volume also explains how ants are defined and identified, including their colony composition and behavior. As with the previous volumes, this volume seeks to be of service to students, researchers, and scientists in various fields of research, particularly entomology, social biology, zoology, and biological science.
Book Synopsis Advances in Genomics and Epigenomics of Social Insects by : Greg J. Hunt
Download or read book Advances in Genomics and Epigenomics of Social Insects written by Greg J. Hunt and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social insects are among the most successful and ecologically important animals on earth. The lifestyle of these insects has fascinated humans since prehistoric times. These species evolved a caste of workers that in most cases have no progeny. Some social insects have worker sub-castes that are morphologically specialized for discrete tasks. The organization of the social insect colony has been compared to the metazoan body. Males in the order Hymenoptera (bees, ants and wasps) are haploid, a situation which results in higher relatedness between female siblings. Sociality evolved many times within the Hymenoptera, perhaps spurred in part by increased relatedness that increases inclusive fitness benefits to workers cooperating to raise their sisters and brothers rather than reproducing themselves. But epigenetic processes may also have contributed to the evolution of sociality. The Hymenoptera provide opportunities for comparative study of species ranging from solitary to highly social. A more ancient clade of social insects, the termites (infraorder Isoptera) provide an opportunity to study alternative mechanisms of caste determination and lifestyles that are aided by an array of endosymbionts. This research topic explores the use of genome sequence data and genomic techniques to help us explore how sociality evolved in insects, how epigenetic processes enable phenotypic plasticity, and the mechanisms behind whether a female will become a queen or a worker.
Book Synopsis Economic Impact and Control of Social Insects by : S. Bradleigh Vinson
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 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
