Insect Behavior: From Mechanisms to Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences First Edition, Impression 1. Edition Alex Córdoba-Aguilar

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• ISBN 10: 0192518097
• ISBN 13: 9780192518095
• Author:Alex Córdoba-Aguilar

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.

Table contents:

CHAPTER 1: Introduction

CHAPTER 2: The genetics of reproductivebehavior

CHAPTER 3: Neurobiology

CHAPTER 4: The role of hormones

CHAPTER 5: Phenotypic plasticity

CHAPTER 6: Habitat selection and territoriality

CHAPTER 7: Long-range migration and orientationbehavior

CHAPTER 8: Feeding behavior

CHAPTER 9: Anti-predator behavior

CHAPTER 10: Chemical communication

CHAPTER 11: Visual communication

CHAPTER 12: Acoustic communication

CHAPTER 13: Reproductive behavior

CHAPTER 14: Parental care

CHAPTER 15: Sociality

CHAPTER 16: Personality and behavioral syndromes in insects and spiders

CHAPTER 17: Cognition and learning

CHAPTER 18: The influence of parasites

CHAPTER 19: Behavioral, plastic, and evolutionary responses to a changing world

CHAPTER 20: Behavior-based control of insect crop pests

CHAPTER 21: Behavior-based control of arthropod vectors: the case of mosquitoes, ticks, and Chagasic

CHAPTER 22: Insect behavior in conservation

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