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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- About the Authors
- Title
- Copyright
- Preface
- Contents
- 1. History, Definitions and Basic Concept
- 2. Organization of the Biological World
- 3. Abundance, Distribution and Diversity of Insects
- 4. Basic Principles of Abiotic Factors and their Generalized Action on Insects
- 5. Implications for Abundance and Distribution of Organisms including Insects: Law of Minimum, Law of Tolerance and Biocoenosis, Systems Approach to Ecology
- 6. Basic Concepts of Abundance, Model v/s Real World, Population Growth Basic Models, Exponential v/s Logistic Models, Discrete v/s Continuous Growth Model
- 7. Vital Statistics: Life Table and their Application in Insect Biology
- 8. Population Dynamics - Factors Affecting Abundance -Environmental Factors, Dispersal and Migration, Seasonality in Insects, Classification and Mechanism of Achieving different Seasonality - Diapauses (Quiescence) - Aestivation, Hibernation
- 9. Biotic Factors: Food is a Limiting Factors for Distribution and Abundance, Nutritional Ecology
- 10. Food Chain: Web and Ecological Succession
- 11. Interspecific Competition: Lotka-Volterra-Model
- 12. Concept of Niche: Ecological Homologous Competitive Exclusion Prey-Predators Interactions - Defence Mechanism against Predators/Parasitoids - Evolution of Mimicry, Colouration, Defense Mechanism against Predators/Parasitoids
- 13. Community Ecology: Concept of Guild, Organisation of Community
- 14. Relative Distribution of Organism, Concept of Diversity: The Wallacian View
- 15. Assessment of Diversity, Diversity Stability, Debate Relevance to Pest Management
- 16. Pest Management as Applied Ecology