Dynamics of Forest Insect Populations
By:Alan A. Berryman
Published on 2013-06-29 by Springer Science & Business Media
Insects multiply. Destruction reigns. There is dismay, followed by outcry, and demands to Authority. Authority remembers its experts or appoints some: they ought to know. The experts advise a Cure. The Cure can be almost anything: holy water from Mecca, a Government Commis sion, a culture of bacteria, poison, prayers denunciatory or tactful, a new god, a trap, a Pied Piper. The Cures have only one thing in common: with a little patience they always work. They have never been known entirely to fail. Likewise they have never been known to prevent the next outbreak. For the cycle of abundance and scarcity has a rhythm of its own, and the Cures are applied just when the plague of insects is going to abate through its own loss of momentum. -Abridged, with insects in place of voles, from C. Elton, 1924, Voles, Mice and Lemmings, with permission of Oxford University Press This book is an enquiry into the |natural rhythms| of insect abundance in forested ecosystems and into the forces that give rise to these rhythms. Forests form unique environ ments for such studies because one can find them growing under relatively natural (pri meval) conditions as well as under the domination of human actions. Also, the slow growth and turnover rates of forested ecosystems enable us to investigate insect popula tion dynamics in a plant environment that remains relatively constant or changes only slowly, this in contrast to agricultural systems, where change is often drastic and frequent.
This Book was ranked at 19 by Google Books for keyword insects of britain northern europe.
Book ID of Dynamics of Forest Insect Populations's Books is Jk30BwAAQBAJ, Book which was written byAlan A. Berrymanhave ETAG "IhLJaFpIG/E"
Book which was published by Springer Science & Business Media since 2013-06-29 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9781489907899 and ISBN 10 Code is 1489907890
Reading Mode in Text Status is false and Reading Mode in Image Status is true
Book which have "604 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategoryScience
This Book was rated by Raters and have average rate at ""
This eBook Maturity (Adult Book) status is NOT_MATURE
Book was written in en
eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is true and in ePub is false
Book Preview
Tidak ada komentar:
Posting Komentar