Editors:
- Provides easy-to-follow methods of field surveys and data analysis
- Presents diverse tri-trophic interrelations among gall midges, their natural enemies and host plants
- Richly illustrated with fascinating images of cecidomyiid galls showing the diverse shape of galls
Part of the book series: Entomology Monographs (ENTMON)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Speciation and Adaptive Radiation
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Diversity and Distribution
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Ecology and Behavior
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Community Centered upon Galls and Gall Inducers
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Applied Fields
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About this book
This book provides practical ecological, ethological, evolutionary, and biogeographic data for gall-inducing cecidomyiids, their galls and host plants, based on field surveys, laboratory experiments and genetic analysis. It refers to various researches on gall-inducing insects published by a world of biologists. Practical methods of field surveys and data analysis are presented, as well as topics on parasitoids, invasive pests, and beneficial gall midges that would be useful for applied entomologists. Readers can learn an ecological way of thinking through diverse interrelations between insects and plants, and the analysis of ecological data from gall-inducing cecidomyiids.
Galls can be easily observed in the field continuously from early to final stage of the development of galls and gall inducers because of their outstanding features and immobility. It provides important data of the host plant such as phenology, abundance as food resources, and the survival of galled organs. By taking these advantages, many biologists have used galls and gall-inducing insects as highly convenient organisms for a wide range of studies including ecology, ethology, evolution, and biogeography.
The book primarily intends to present the appeal of galls and gall-inducing insects for various biological studies. In particular, gall-inducing cecidomyiids are ideal insects to study ecology and evolution. It helps to open the doors to further cryptic study subjects. Also, integrating various ecological, ethological, evolutionary and biogeographic data as shown in this book can serve to further advance the macroevolutionary studies of insects.
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Editors and Affiliations
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Entomological Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Junichi Yukawa
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Laboratory of Systems Ecology, Faculty of Agriculture, Saga University, Japan
Makoto Tokuda
About the editors
Makoto TOKUDA, Associate Professor of Saga University, Ph.D., Council Member of the Entomological Society of Japan, Council Member of the Japanese Society of Applied Entomology and Zoology, Editor-in-Chief of Entomological Science.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Biology of Gall Midges
Book Subtitle: Evolution, Ecology, and Biological Interactions
Editors: Junichi Yukawa, Makoto Tokuda
Series Title: Entomology Monographs
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6534-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-33-6533-9Published: 22 July 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-33-6536-0Published: 23 July 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-33-6534-6Published: 21 July 2021
Series ISSN: 2522-526X
Series E-ISSN: 2522-5278
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 299
Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour
Topics: Entomology, Evolutionary Biology, Ecology