Insect movement : mechanisms and consequences : proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society's 20th Symposium /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2001.
• Subjects: Insects > Congresses. > Locomotion; Insects > Congresses. > Flight; Meteorology and Climate.; Biological Resources (Animal); Genetics and Molecular Genetics (Wild Animals), (New March 2000); Physiology and Biochemistry (Wild Animals), (New March 2000); Behaviour (Wild Animals), (New March 2000); Animal Ecology.; Insects.; Animal behaviour.; Animal physiology.; Behaviour.; Climatic change.; Dispersal.; Evolution.; Flight.; Foraging.; Gene flow.; Geographical distribution.; Locomotion.; Migration.; Movement.; Population structure.; Reviews.; Electronic books.
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This book, which is based on the main papers presented at the Royal Entomological Society's 20th Symposium held in September 1999, reviews the developments in the study of insect movements, particularly of flight. It contains 19 chapters discussing flight mechanisms (e.g. flight biomechanics, p...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction and Overview / I.P. Woiwod, D.R. Reynolds and C.D. Thomas
• The Biomechanics and Functional Diversity of Flight / R. Dudley
• How Insect Wings Evolved / R.J. Wootton
• Physiology and Endocrine Control of Flight / G. Goldsworthy and M. Joyce
• Insect Behaviours Associated with Resource Finding / J. Hardie, G. Gibson and T.D. Wyatt
• Host Location by Parasitoids / W. Powell and G. Poppy
• Flight Trajectories of Foraging Insects : Observations Using Harmonic Radar / J.R. Riley and J.L. Osborne
• The Evolution of Migratory Syndromes in Insects / H. Dingle
• Orientation Mechanisms and Migration Strategies Within the Flight Boundary Layer / R.B. Srygley and E.G. Oliveira
• Characterizing Insect Migration Systems in Inland Australia with Novel and Traditional Methodologies / V.A. Drake, P.C. Gregg, I.T. Harman, H.-K. Wang, E.D. Deveson, D.M. Hunter and W.A. Rochester
• Significance of Habitat Persistence and Dimensionality in the Evolution of Insect Migration Strategies / R.F. Denno, C. Gratton and G.A. Langellotto
• Predation and the Evolution of Dispersal / W.W. Weisser
• Evolution of Mass Transit Systems in Ants : a Tale of Two Societies / N.R. Franks
• Dispersal and Conservation in Heterogeneous Landscapes / N.F. Britton, G.P. Boswell and N.R. Franks
• Scale, Dispersal and Population Structure / C.D. Thomas
• Gene Flow / J. Mallet
• Use of Genetic Diversity in Movement Studies of Flying Insects / H.D. Loxdale and G. Lushai
• Coping with Modern Times? Insect Movement and Climate Change / C. Parmesan
• Analysing and Modelling Range Changes in UK Butterflies / J.K. Hill, C.D. Thomas, R. Fox, D. Moss and B. Huntley.