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An Ecosystem Approach
出版Academic Press, 2000
主題Nature / EcologyNature / Animals / Insects & SpidersPsychology / Social PsychologyScience / Life Sciences / EcologyScience / Life Sciences / Zoology / EntomologyScience / Life Sciences / Zoology / General
ISBN01262897519780126289756
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=vTMgAQAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Insects are the most diverse and dominant group of organisms on Earth. They are highly sensitive to environmental changes and are capable of responding dramatically by engineering further changes in ecosystem structure and function. Their capacity to respond dramatically to environmental gradients often brings them into conflict with our resource management goals. Insects are also potentially useful indicators of impending environmental changes. Insect Ecology integrates the traditional emphasis on insect diversity, life history adaptations, and species interactions with insects roles in ecosystems subject to environmental changes.
Key Features
* Integrates individual, population, community, and ecosystem levels of ecological resolution
* Illustrates the relationship of insect ecology to disturbance dynamics and environmental change
* Relates metapopulation dynamics to ecosystem structure and function
* Demonstrates the ability of insect functional groups to affect ecosystem and global processes, such as primary production, biogeochemical cycling, and carbon flux
* Provides a context for evolution as feedback between community modification of ecosystem conditions and selection of individual attributes that regulate ecosystem conditions