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The third edition of Insect Ecology: An Ecosystem Approach provides a modern perspective of insect ecology that integrates two approaches traditionally used to study insect ecology: evolutionary and ecosystem. This integration substantially broadens the scope of insect ecology and contributes to prediction and resolution of the effects of current environmental changes, as these affect and are affected by insects. The third edition includes an updated and expanded synthesis of feedback and interactions between insects and their environment. This updated material and a new chapter on applications of insect ecology to social and environmental issues effectively demonstrates how evolutionary and ecosystem approaches complement each other, with the intent of stimulating further integration of these approaches in experiments that address insect roles in ecosystems. Effective management of ecosystem resources depends on evaluation of the complex, often complementary, effects of insects on ecosystem conditions, as well as insect responses to changing conditions.

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• Chapter 1 Overview
• Section I Ecology of Individual Insects
• Chapter 2 Responses to Abiotic Conditions
• Chapter 3 Resource Acquisition
• Chapter 4 Resource Allocation
• Section II Population Ecology
• Chapter 5 Population Systems
• Chapter 6 Population Dynamics
• Chapter 7 Biogeography
• Section III Community Ecology
• Chapter 8 Species Interactions
• Chapter 9 Community Structure
• Chapter 10 Community Dynamics
• Section IV Ecosystem Level
• Chapter 11 Ecosystem Structure and Function
• Chapter 12 Herbivory
• Chapter 13 Pollination, Seed Predation and Seed Dispersal
• Chapter 14 Decomposition and Pedogenesis
• Chapter 15 Insects as Regulators of Ecosystem Processes
• Section V Applications and Synthesis
• Chapter 16 Applications
• Chapter 17 Synthesis

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This revised edition (2nd ed., 2006; 1st ed., CH, Jul'00, 37-6260) provides a synthesis of evolutionary and ecosystem approaches to insect ecology. In the initial chapters, Schowalter (Louisiana State Univ.) examines physiological and behavioral factors that govern how insects respond to abiotic and biotic conditions and how they acquire energy and resources. The next sections focus on life history characteristics, the structure of populations, population dynamics, biogeography, species interactions, and community structure and dynamics. In section 4, "Ecosystem Level," several chapters summarize trophic interactions between insects and plants (herbivory, pollination, and seed dispersal) and the role of insects in the decomposition of carrion, litter, and dung, and the development of soil. A new chapter in the third edition highlights the application of insect ecology to ecosystem services and restoration, invasive species, and pest management. Insect Ecology is notable for it broad scope and clear synthesis of the diverse and major roles insects play in ecosystems. Although this well-written, excellent book will be especially appealing to undergraduate and graduate students, professionals and anyone with a serious interest in insects and their critical role in ecosystems will also benefit from it. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. R. E. Lee Jr. Miami University

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Timothy D. Schowalter received his Ph.D. degree in Entomology from the University of Georgia in 1979. Since 1981, he has been a professor of entomology at Oregon State University, Corvallis, studying the effects of environmental changes, including natural and anthropogenic disturbances, on arthropod communities in temperate and tropical ecosystems, and effects of herbivores and detritivores on primary production, carbon flux, biogeochemical cycling. From 1992-93, he served as Program Director for Integrative and Theoretical Ecology at the National Science Foundation, where he was involved in developing global change and terrestrial ecosystem research initiatives at the federal level. He served as a U.S. delegate to international conventions to develop collaboration between U.S. Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites and long term sites in Hungary and East Asia and the Pacific.