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Insect Outbreaks
Author(s): Pedro Barbosa
- Publisher: Academic Press
- Publication Date: 11 Nov. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 592 pages
- ISBN-10: 0123959993
- ISBN-13: 9780123959997
Book Description
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.
