Dynamics of Forest Insect Populations: Patterns, Causes, Implications (Population Ecology) - Image 1

£165.40

Springer Dynamics of Forest Insect Populations: Patterns, Causes, Implications (Population Ecology)

Name: Dynamics of Forest Insect Populations: Patterns, Causes, Implications (Population Ecology)
Brand: Springer
Price: 161.04 GBP
Availability: InStock

Physiology

Price History & Forecast

Last 76 days • 76 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 76 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £161 (68 days, 89.5%)

Price range: £161 - £165

Price levels: 2 different prices over 76 days

Description

Insects multiply. Destruction reigns. There is dismay, followed by outcry, and demands to Authority. Authority remembers its experts or appoints some: they ought to know. The experts advise a Cure. The Cure can be almost anything: holy water from Mecca, a Government Commis sion, a culture of bacteria, poison, prayers denunciatory or tactful, a new god, a trap, a Pied Piper. The Cures have only one thing in common: with a little patience they always work. They have never been known entirely to fail. Likewise they have never been known to prevent the next outbreak. For the cycle of abundance and scarcity has a rhythm of its own, and the Cures are applied just when the plague of insects is going to abate through its own loss of momentum. -Abridged, with insects in place of voles, from C. Elton, 1924, Voles, Mice and Lemmings, with permission of Oxford University Press This book is an enquiry into the "natural rhythms" of insect abundance in forested ecosystems and into the forces that give rise to these rhythms. Forests form unique environ ments for such studies because one can find them growing under relatively natural (pri meval) conditions as well as under the domination of human actions. Also, the slow growth and turnover rates of forested ecosystems enable us to investigate insect popula tion dynamics in a plant environment that remains relatively constant or changes only slowly, this in contrast to agricultural systems, where change is often drastic and frequent.

Product Specifications

Brand: Springer
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0306427451
Category: Books > Subjects > Science, Nature & Maths > Biological Sciences > Animal Sciences > Physiology
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 31 July 1988
Listed Since: 14 December 2006

Barcode

No barcode data available

Springer Dynamics of Forest Insect Populations: Patterns, Causes, Implications (Population Ecology)

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Dynamics of Forest Insect Populations: Patterns, Causes, Implications (Population Ecology)

Forest Insect Population Dynamics, Outbreaks, And Global Warming Effects

Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Insect-Plant Relationships: v. 49 (Series Entomologica)

Ecology Of Forest Insects: 26 (Series Entomologica, 26)

Ecology Of Forest Insects: 26 (Series Entomologica, 26)

Functional Ecology of Woodlands and Forests

Ecological and Economic Entomology: A Global Synthesis

Forests and Insect Conservation in Australia

Ecology and Evolution of Communities (Belknap Press)

Saproxylic Insects: Diversity, Ecology and Conservation: 1 (Zoological Monographs, 1)

Insect Ecology: Concepts to Management

Forest Diversity and Function: Temperate and Boreal Systems: 176 (Ecological Studies, 176)

The Economic Importance of Insects

Springer - Forest Pest and Disease Management in Latin America

Effects of Climate Change on Insects: Physiological, Evolutionary, and Ecological Responses

Insects as Natural Enemies: A Practical Perspective

Animal Population Ecology: An Analytical Approach (Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation)

Springer - Ecology of Small Mammals - Academic Book

Insects and Society

Vegetation Dynamics & Global Change

Sustaining Forest Ecosystems: 37 (Managing Forest Ecosystems, 37)

Theories of Populations in Biological Communities: 20 (Ecological Studies, 20)

Impacts of Point Polluters on Terrestrial Biota: Comparative analysis of 18 contaminated areas: 15 (Environmental Pollution, 15)

Springer - The Ecology of Bruchids Attacking Legumes (Pulses)