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Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Insect-Plant Relationships

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1992

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Editors:
  1. S. B. J. Menken

    1. Institute of Taxonomic Zoology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  2. J. H. Visser

    1. Research Institute for Plant Protection IPO-DLO, Wageningen, The Netherlands

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  3. P. Harrewijn

    1. Research Institute for Plant Protection IPO-DLO, Wageningen, The Netherlands

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Part of the book series: Series Entomologica (SENT, volume 49)

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Table of contents (128 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • S. B. J. Menken, J. H. Visser, P. Harrewijn
      Pages 1-1

  3. Insect-Plant Communities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 3-3
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    2. The importance of herbivore population density in multitrophic interactions in natural and agricultural ecosystems

      • Donald R. Strong, Stig Larsson
      Pages 5-13

    3. The evolution of plant resistance and correlated characters

      • Ellen L. Simms
      Pages 15-25

    4. Habitat impact on insect communities of annual and perennial grasses

      • H.-J. Greiler, T. Tscharntke
      Pages 27-29

    5. Predispersal seed predation in the limitation of native thistle

      • Svata M. Louda, Martha A. Potvin, Sharon K. Collinge
      Pages 30-32

    6. Preference, tree resistance, or chance: how to interpret differences in gall density among trees?

      • David Wool, Moshe Burstein
      Pages 33-35

    7. Aggregation of aphid galls at ‘preferred’ sites within trees: do colonizers have a choice?

      • Moshe Burstein, David Wool
      Pages 36-38

    8. Abundance and mortality of a specialist leaf miner in response to shading and fertilization of American holly

      • Daniel A. Potter
      Pages 39-40

    9. Within-population variation in demography of a herbivorous lady beetle

      • Takayuki Ohgushi
      Pages 41-42

    10. Continental-scale host plant use by a specialist insect herbivore: milkweeds, cardenolides and the monarch butterfly

      • Stephen B. Malcolm, Barbara J. Cockrell, Lincoln P. Brower
      Pages 43-45

    11. Resource partitioning of host plants by insects on a geographic scale

      • F. Kozár
      Pages 46-48

    12. Why do droughts often result in devastating insect epidemics? The African armyworm, Spodoptera exempta, as an example

      • Jan Janssen
      Pages 49-51

    13. The impact of water and nutrient stress on oak leaf quality and gypsy moth performance

      • Karl W. Kleiner, Marc. D. Abrams, Jack C. Schultz
      Pages 52-54

    14. Forest insect trends along an acidic deposition gradient in the central United States

      • Robert A. Haack
      Pages 55-56

    15. Birch foliage quality and population density of Eriocrania miners in a pollution-affected area

      • Julia Koricheva, Erkki Haukioja
      Pages 57-58

    16. Performance of Neodiprion sertifer on defoliated scots pine foliage

      • Päivi Lyytikäinen
      Pages 59-60

    17. Comparative studies of developmental biology, preference and feeding behavior of Monellia caryella on Juglandaceae native to North America

      • Michael T. Smith, Bruce W. Wood, Ray F. Severson
      Pages 61-64

    18. Host-plant selection by the tropical butterfly Bicyclus anynana

      • Rinny E. Kooi
      Pages 65-66
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About this book

The papers in this book are organized as follows: insect-plant communities, host-plant selection, genetics and evolution, host-plant resistance and application of transgenic plants, and multitrophic interactions. Besides seven invited papers and a paper with concluding remarks, this volume also contains the short communications of all 115 oral presentations and posters. Included too, are the summaries of four European Science Foundation workshops held over the past two years, where European scientists discussed the state-of-the-art and the future of major topics in insect-plant interactions in order to develop better integrated research programs.
The field of insect-plant interactions nowadays includes almost all of biology, as well as parts of chemistry and physics. It takes a central position in biology because insects are the most abundant animal group, half of them are herbivores and they dominate all terrestrial ecosystems. Knowledge of insect-plant interactions is thus fundamental to an understanding of the evolution of life on Earth.
Two major topics of worldwide concern give this field an extra dimension. First, large amounts of food crops are still lost due to insect pests. With the increasing concern for environmental pollution and the subsequent plans to drastically reduce pesticides, integrated pest management and development of resistant crops become a major focus in agriculture. The importance of the study of insect-plant relationships is thus continuously augmented. Clearly, successful pest control demands sufficient fundamental knowledge of pest-host interactions. Second, such work can contribute towards stopping or even counterbalancing the threatening biodiversity crisis thanks to an understanding of how the interaction of insects and plants has influenced and still influences the diversification and speciation (evolution) of both groups. These problems should, of course, be approached at a multitrophic level.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Taxonomic Zoology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    S. B. J. Menken

  • Research Institute for Plant Protection IPO-DLO, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    J. H. Visser, P. Harrewijn

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Insect-Plant Relationships

  • Editors: S. B. J. Menken, J. H. Visser, P. Harrewijn

  • Series Title: Series Entomologica

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1654-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1992

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-2099-9Published: 31 December 1992

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-4723-4Published: 29 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-1654-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 424

  • Topics: Animal Ecology, Life Sciences, general

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