The Biology of Social Insects - Couverture souple

 
9780367305826: The Biology of Social Insects

Synopsis

In this book, first published in 1983, internationally known experts provide a comprehensive view of current knowledge of social insect biology including much previously unpublished information. Particular emphasis is given to the relationships between social insects and humans; sections are devoted to economically important social insects, pollination, foraging, and the role of insects in ecosystems and agroecosystems. The authors also discuss communication, behavior and caste within insect colonies. A special section focuses on the neurobiology of social insects. A series of papers considers the presocial insects, which live in family groups but without caste differences. Also well represented are the fields of sociobiology and the origins and evolution of social behavior. The book will be valuable to agricultural scientists as well as to entomologists, sociobiologists, ecologists, ethologists, and natural historians. Endocrinologists and neurobiologists will also find important new material.

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À propos de l?auteur

Michael D. Breed is assistant professor in the Department of Environmental, Population, and Organismic Biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Charles D. Michener is Watkins Professor of Entomology and of Systematics and Ecology, the University of Kansas. Howard E. Evans is professor of entomology at Colorado State University.

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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780865312913: The Biology Of Social Insects: Proceedings Of The Ninth Congress Of The International Union For The Study Of Social Insects

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0865312915 ISBN 13 :  9780865312913
Editeur : Westview Press, 1982
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