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Literature Currently Available On The Population Dynamics Of Insect Herbivores Tends Of Favour A Top-down Regulation Of Abundance, Owing Much To The Action Of Natural Enemies. This Unique Volume Challenges This Paradigm And Shows That Tree-dwelling Species Of Aphids, Through Competition For Resources, Regulate Their Own Abundance. Using Analyses From Long-term Population Census And Experiments, This Book Is Designed To Introduce Students And Research Workers To Insect Herbivore-host Dynamics Using The Interaction Between Aphids And Trees As A Model.--jacket. 1. Introduction -- 2. Tree-dwelling Aphids -- 3. Trees As A Habitat : Relations Of Aphids To Trees -- 4. Trees As A Habitat : Relations Of Aphids To Their Natural Enemies -- 5. Carrying Capacity Of Trees -- 6. Aphid Abundance -- 7. Population Dynamics -- 8. Risky Dispersal -- 9. Seasonal Sex Allocation -- 10. Aphids And Tree Fitness -- 11. Rarity, Conservation And Global Warming. A.g.f. Dixon. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 176-191) And Indexes.

Author

Dixon, A. F. G. (Anthony Frederick George)

Publisher

Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780521802321

Subjects

Science, Stem