Parasitoid Population Biology / / ed. by Michael E. Hochberg, Anthony R. Ives.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Baalen, Minus van,; Bernstein, Carlos,; Brodeur, Jacques,; Casas, Jerome,; Godfray, H. C. J,; Harrison, Susan,; Hastings, Alan,; Hawkins, Bradford A.,; Heimpel, George E.,; Hochberg, Michael E.,; Holyoak, Marcel,; Ives, Anthony R,; Ives, Anthony R.,; Mills, Nick,; Roitberg, Bernard D.,; Roland, Jens,; Strand, Michael R.,; Tscharntke, Teja,
• HerausgeberIn: Hochberg, Michael E.,; Ives, Anthony R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.) :; 1 halftone, 60 line illus.

Extraordinary in the diversity of their lifestyles, insect parasitoids have become extremely important study organisms in the field of population biology, and they are the most frequently used agents in the biological control of insect pests. This book presents the ideas of seventeen international specialists, providing the reader not only with an overview but also with lively discussions of the most salient questions pertaining to the field today and prescriptions for avenues of future research. After a general introduction, the book divides into three main sections: population dynamics, population diversity, and population applications. The first section covers gaps in our knowledge in parasitoid behavior, parasitoid persistence, and how space and landscape affect dynamics. The contributions on population diversity consider how evolution has molded parasitoid populations and communities. The final section calls for novel approaches toward resolving the enigma of success in biological control and questions why parasitoids have been largely neglected in conservation biology. Parasitoid Population Biology will likely be an important influence on research well into the twenty-first century and will provoke discussion amongst parasitoid biologists and population biologists. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Carlos Bernstein, Jacques Brodeur, Jerome Casas, H.C.J. Godfray, Susan Harrison, Alan Hastings, Bradford A. Hawkins, George E. Heimpel, Marcel Holyoak, Nick Mills, Bernard D. Roitberg, Jens Roland, Michael R. Strand, Teja Tscharntke, and Minus van Baalen.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- One Introduction -- Part One POPULATION DYNAMICS -- Two Host Location and Selection in the Field -- Three Effects of Parasitoid Clutch Size on Host-Parasitoid Population Dynamics -- Four Host-Parasitoid Models: The Story of a Successful Failure -- Five A Field Guide to Studying Spatial Pattern Formation in Host-Parasitoid Systems -- Six Parasitoid Spread: Lessons for and from Invasion Biology -- Seven Landscape Ecology of Parasitism -- Part Two POPULATION DIVERSITY -- Eight The Evolution of Parasitoid Egg Load -- Nine Host Resistance, Parasitoid Virulence, and Population Dynamics -- Ten Developmental Traits and Life-History Evolution in Parasitoids -- Eleven Host Specificity and Trophic Relationships of Hyperparasitoids -- Twelve Comparing Parasitoid-Dominated Food Webs with Other Food Webs: Problems and Future Promises -- Thirteen Species Coexistence in Parasitoid Communities: Does Competition Matter? -- Part Three POPULATION APPLICATIONS -- Fourteen Biological Control: The Need for Realistic Models and Experimental Approaches to Parasitoid Introductions -- Fifteen Parasitoid Populations in the Agricultural Landscape -- Sixteen Threats, Flies, and Protocol Gaps: Can Evolutionary Ecology Save Biological Control? -- Seventeen "What, Conserve Parasitoids?' -- Eighteen Conclusions: Debating Parasitoid Population Biology over the Next Twenty Years -- References -- Index