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Insect Life History Patterns

Habitat and Geographic Variation

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1981

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Editors:
  1. Robert F. Denno

    1. Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

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  2. Hugh Dingle

    1. Department of Zoology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA

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Part of the book series: Proceedings in Life Sciences (LIFE SCIENCES)

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Table of contents (13 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introductory Chapter

    1. Considerations for the Development of a More General Life History Theory

      • Robert F. Denno, Hugh Dingle
      Pages 1-6

  3. Host Plant Variation and Insect Life Histories

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-8
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    2. Individual Trees as Heterogeneous Environments: Adaptation to Herbivory or Epigenetic Noise?

      • Thomas G. Whitham
      Pages 9-27

    3. Responses of Black Pineleaf Scales to Host Plant Variability

      • George F. Edmunds Jr., Donald N. Alstad
      Pages 29-38

    4. The Role of Host Plants in the Speciation of Treehoppers: An example from the Enchenopa binotata Complex

      • Thomas K. Wood, Sheldon I. Guttman
      Pages 39-54

  5. Life Histories and Nonequilibrium Populations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-150
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    2. Organization of a Guild of Sap-feeding Insects: Equilibrium vs. Nonequilibrium Coexistence

      • Robert F. Denno, Michael J. Raupp, Douglas W. Tallamy
      Pages 151-181

    3. The Possibility of Insect Communities without Competition: Hispine Beetles on Heliconia

      • Donald R. Strong
      Pages 183-194

    4. What Makes a Good Island Colonist?

      • Daniel Simberloff
      Pages 195-205

    5. Biogeographic Patterns among Milkweed Insects

      • Richard P. Seifert
      Pages 207-220

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 221-225
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About this book

This volume results from a symposium entitled "Species and Ufe History Patterns: Geographic and Habitat Variation", held during the National Meeting of the Entomo­ logical Society of America in Denver, Colorado, USA in November, 1979. The stimu­ lus to assemble papers on this theme emerged from continuing discussions with col­ leagues concerning controversies in ecology and evolutionary biology, namely those associated with plant-herbivore interactions, life history theory, and the equilibrium status of communities. The study organisms used in this series of reports are all either herbivorous insects or those intimately associated with plants. In this volume we stress the variation found in life history traits and address some of the problems inherent in current life history theory. We include as life history traits not only traditional variables such as fecundity, size of young, and age to first and peak reproduction, but also diapause and migration, traits that synchronize reproduction with favorable plant resources. Because life history traits of phytophagous insects are influenced in part by spatial and temporal variation in the quality and availability of their host plants, we also consider the role that dis­ continuities in plant quality play in reducing insect fitness. Lastly, much of the tra­ ditional life history theory concerns itself with differences between the evolution of traits or constellations of traits when populations incur primarily density-independent, compared to density-dependent, mortality. Consequently, we address this issue and attempt to shed light on the equilibrium status of several phytophagous insect com­ munities.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

    Robert F. Denno

  • Department of Zoology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA

    Hugh Dingle

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Insect Life History Patterns

  • Book Subtitle: Habitat and Geographic Variation

  • Editors: Robert F. Denno, Hugh Dingle

  • Series Title: Proceedings in Life Sciences

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5941-1

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. 1981

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-5943-5Published: 18 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-5941-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0172-6625

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 225

  • Topics: Zoology

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