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Insects display a staggering diversity of behaviors. Studying these systems provides insights into a wide range of ecological, evolutionary, and behavioral questions including the genetics of behavior, phenotypic plasticity, chemical communication, and the evolution of life-history traits. This accessible text offers a new approach that provides the reader with the necessary theoretical and conceptual foundations, at different hierarchical levels, to understand insect behavior. The book is divided into three main sections: mechanisms, ecological and evolutionary consequences, and applied issues. The final section places the preceding chapters within a framework of current threats to human survival - climate change, disease, and food security - before providing suggestions and insights as to how we can utilize an understanding of insect behavior to control and/or ameliorate them. Each chapter provides a concise, authoritative review of the conceptual, theoretical, and methodological foundations of each topic.
Contents
ForewordJohn Alcock:
1: Daniel González-Tokman, Isaac González-Santoyo, and Alex Córdoba-Aguilar: Introduction
2: John Hunt, James Rapkin, and Clarissa House: The genetics of reproductive behavior in insects
3: Anne C. von Philipsborn: Neurobiology of insect behavior
4: H. Frederik Nijhout and Emily Laub: The role of hormones in insect behavior
5: Karen D. Williams and Marla B. Sokolowski: Phenotypic plasticity and insect behavior
6: Darrell J. Kemp: Habitat selection and territoriality
7: Don R. Reynolds and Jason W. Chapman: Long-range migration and orientation behavior
8: Stephen J. Simpson, Carlos Ribeiro, and Daniel González-Tokman: Insect feeding behavior
9: Thomas N. Sherratt and Changku Kang: Anti-predator behavior
10: Bernard D. Roitberg: Chemical communication
11: James C. O'Hanlon, Thomas E. White, and Kate D.L. Umbers: Visual communication
12: Heiner Römer: Acoustic communication
13: Rachel Olzer, Rebecca L. Ehrlich, Justa L. Heinen-Kay, Jessie Tanner, and Marlene Zuk: Reproductive behavior
14: Glauco Machado and Stephen T. Trumbo: Parental care
15: Jennifer Fewell and Patrick Abbot: Insect sociality
16: Carl N. Keiser, James L.L. Lichtenstein, Colin M. Wright, Gregory T. Chism, and Jonathan N. Pruitt: Personality and behavioral syndromes in insects and spiders
17: Reuven Dukas: Insect cognition and learning
18: Pedro F. Vale, Jonathon A. Siva-Jothy, André Morrill, and Mark R. Forbes: The influence of parasites on insect behavior
19: Wolf U. Blanckenhorn: Behavioral, plastic, and evolutionary responses to a changing world
20: Sandra A. Allan: Behavior-based control of insect crop pests
21: Ana E. Gutiérrez-Cabrera, Giovanni Benelli, Thomas Walker, José Antonio De Fuentes-Vicente, and Alex Córdoba-Aguilar: Behavior-based control of arthropod vectors: the case of mosquitoes, ticks and Chagasic bugs
22: Tim R. New: Insect behavior in conservation
