Ecology Of Forest Insects

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIII

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2. Species and populations of insects and their basic associations with the forest environment

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   Pages 1-12

3. Influence of abiotic environmental factors on forest insects

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   Pages 13-77

4. The role of nutrient factors in the life of forest insects

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   Pages 78-111

5. Intraspecific relationships of forest insects

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   Pages 112-161

6. Causes and course of changes in the abundance of insect

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   Pages 162-218

7. Insects in forest biocenoses

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   Pages 219-329

8. Characteristics of the forest entomofauna of Poland

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   Pages 330-432

9. Human influence on forest entomocenoses

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   Pages 433-506

10. Problems of the development of entomocenoses under reforestation conditions

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    Pages 507-530

11. Back Matter

    Pages 531-601

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Few branches of the biological sciences have developed to such an extent as has ecology in the recent decades. The successful development of this science is directly related to need to create a sound scientific basis by which we can control our diminishing natural resources and integrate this with the control of biological systems of the component species. Studies on the bioenergetics of ecosystems, as well as on the home­ ostatic mechanisms functioning at the populations and biocenoses levels are of great importance in this respect. The results of these studies are very significant in forestry management which deals with multiannual tree communities - forest stands. It is particularly important in this of the necessity for the possible respect for economic planning, in view prolonged maintenance of forest biocenoses as stable systems. Neither in the present nor in the immediate future can be protection of forest ecosystems consisting of natural plant and animal communities be achieved by the cultivation of resistant forms or the intensification of chemical intervention.

• Humus
• adaptation
• biocoenosis
• development
• ecology
• ecosystem
• environment
• fauna
• forest
• insect
• insects
• predator
• reproduction
• temperature
• wind

`This book, rich in drawings, graphs,and photographs, will undoubtedly be of much use not only to forestry, and biology students, but also to professional biologists, especially entomologists, ecologists, and foresters.'
Zeitschrift für angewandte Entomologie

• Department of Forest Protection and Ecology, Agricultural University of Warsaw, Poland

  Andrzej Szujecki

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