Description
Book SynopsisKnowledge of insect movement, particularly of flight, is crucial to our understanding of the great ecological and evolutionary success of insects. The last 20 years have seen many advances in this subject area. New fields have arisen, such as metapopulation theory, and dramatic developments have taken place in methods of studying movement, as a result of new techniques in molecular biology and radar monitoring. There have also been advances in our knowledge of flight-related physiology and behaviour. This book, which is based on the main papers presented at the Royal Entomological Society's 20th Symposium held in September 1999, brings us up to date with these developments.
It contains chapters on:
- flight mechanisms
- foraging movements
- migration
- the evolution of movement strategies
- the interactions between dispersal rates, population structure and gene flow
- the effects of climate change on geographical distribution
It is essential reading
Table of Contents
1: Contributors 2: Preface 3: Introduction and overview, I. Woiwood, C D Thomas and D Reynolds 4: The biomechanics and functional diversity of flight, R Dudley 5: How insect wings evolved, R Wootton 6: Physiology and endocrine control of flight, G Goldsworthy and M Joyce 7: Insect behaviours associated with resource finding, J Hardie, G Gibson and T Wyatt 8: Host location by parasitoids, W Powell and G Poppy 9: Flight trajectories of foraging insects: observations using harmonic radar, J R Riley and J L Osborne 10: The evolution of migratory syndromes in insects, H Dingle 11: Migration patterns and orientation mechanisms within the flight boundary layer, R B Srygley and E G Oliveira 12: Characterising the spatial and temporal components of insect migration in inland Australia with novel and traditional methods, V A Drake, P C Gregg et al. 13: Significance of habitat persistence and dimensionality in the evolution of insect dispersal strategies, R F Denno, C Grattan and G A Langellotto 14: Predation and the evolution of dispersal, W W Weisser 15: Evolution of mass transit systems in ants - a tale of two societies, N R Franks 16: Dispersal and conservation in heterogeneous landscapes, N F Britton, G P Boswell and N R Franks 17: Scale, dispersal and population structure, C D Thomas 18: Gene flow, J Mallet 19: Use of genetic diversity in movement studies of flying insects, H D Loxdale and G Lushai 20: Coping with modern times? Insect movement and climate change, C Parmesan 21: Analysing and modelling range changes in UK butterflies, J K Hill, C D Thomas, R Fox, D Moss and B Huntley 22: Index
