Insect outbreaks [recurso electrónico

FROM THE PREFACE: The abundance of insects can change dramatically from generation to generation; these generational changes may occur within a growing season or over a period of years. Such extraordinary density changes or ''outbreaks'' may be abrupt and ostensibly random, or population peaks may occur in a more or less cyclic fashion....The goal of this book is to update and advance current thinking on the phenomenon of insect outbreaks. The contributors have reviewed relevant literature in order to generate a synthesis providing new concepts and important alternatives for future research. More importantly, they have presented new ideas or syntheses that will stimulate advances in thinking and experimentation Content: Front Matter , Page i Copyright , Page ii Contributors , Pages ix-xi Preface , Pages xiii-xiv Chapter 1 - The Theory and Classification of Outbreaks , Pages 3-30 Chapter 2 - Nonoutbreak Species of Forest Lepidoptera , Pages 31-57 Chapter 3 - What Is a Forest Pest? , Pages 59-80 Chapter 4 - Leaf Eating as Mutualism , Pages 81-95 Chapter 5 - Insect Outbreaks and Community Structure , Pages 99-133 Chapter 6 - Community Structure and Folivorous Insect Outbreaks: The Roles of Vertical and Horizontal Interactions , Pages 135-171 Chapter 7 - Population Outbreaks of Introduced Insects: Lessons from the Biological Control of Weeds , Pages 173-193 Chapter 8 - Insect Pest Outbreaks in Agroecosystems , Pages 195-215 Chapter 9 - Agricultural Ecology and Insect Outbreaks , Pages 217-238 Chapter 10 - The Role of Climatic Variation and Weather in Forest Insect Outbreaks , Pages 241-268 Chapter 11 - Pathogen-Induced Cycling of Outbreak Insect Populations , Pages 269-286 Chapter 12 - The Role of Natural Enemies in Insect Populations , Pages 287-312 Chapter 13 - The Role of Weather and Natural Enemies in Determining Aphid Outbreaks , Pages 313-346 Chapter 14 - Amino Acid Nutrition of Herbivorous Insects and Stress to Host Plants , Pages 347-364 Chapter 15 - The Role of Drought Stress in Provoking Outbreaks of Phytophagous Insects , Pages 365-407 Chapter 16 - Insect Population Dynamics and Induction of Plant Resistance: The Testing of Hypotheses , Pages 411-432 Chapter 17 - Geographic Invasion and Abundance as Facilitated by Differential Host Plant Utilization Abilities , Pages 433-468 Chapter 18 - Phenotypic Plasticity and Herbivore Outbreaks , Pages 469-503 Chapter 19 - Genetic Change and Insect Outbreaks , Pages 505-532 Chapter 20 - Evolutionary Processes and Insect Outbreaks , Pages 533-563 Subject Index , Pages 565-568 Taxonomic Index , Pages 569-578 FROM THE PREFACE: The abundance of insects can change dramatically from generation to generation; these generational changes may occur within a growing season or over a period of years. Such extraordinary density changes or "outbreaks" may be abrupt and ostensibly random, or population peaks may occur in a more or less cyclic fashion ... The goal of this book is to update and advance current thinking on the phenomenon of insect outbreaks. The contributors have reviewed relevant literature in order to generate a synthesis providing new concepts and important alternatives for future research. More importantly, they have presented new ideas or syntheses that will stimulate advances in thinking and experimentation