Applied Myrmecology: A World Perspective - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 036701324X ISBN 13 : 9780367013240

Editeur : CRC Press, 2019

Synopsis

Ants have always fascinated the nature observer. Reports from ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia indicate that ants interested humans long ago. Myrmecology as a science had its beginning in the last century with great naturalists like Andre, Darwin, Emery, Escherich, Fabre, Fields, Forel, Janet, Karawaiew, McCook, Mayr, Smith, Wasmann and Wheeler. They studied ants as an interesting biological phenomenon, with little thought of the possible beneficial or detrimental effects ants could have on human activities (see Wheeler 1910 as an example). When Europeans began colonizing the New World, serious ant problems occurred. The first reports of pest ants came from Spanish and Portuguese officials of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Trinidad, The West Indies, Central America and South America. Leaf-cutting ants were blamed for making agricultural development almost impossible in many areas. These ants, Atta and Acromyrmex species, are undoubtedly the first ants identified as pests and may be considered to have initiated interest and research in applied myrmecology (Mariconi 1970).

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Robert K. Vander Meer, Klaus Jaffe, Aragua Cedeno

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CRC Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 036701324X
• ISBN 13: 9780367013240
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 763
• Éditeur: Vander Meer Robert K., Jaffe Klaus, Cedeno Aragua
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