Forests and Insects - by Allan D Watt & Nigel E Stork & Mark D Hunter (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

This book covers the full breadth of forest entomology. It combines the work of forest entomologists working on the impact and management of forest pests with those involved in diversity assessment and conservation of insects in forests. Forests and Insects demonstrates that both these disciplines demand an understanding of population and community biology.
The book covers such topics as colonization of trees by insects, population dynamics of forest insects, insect natural enemies, the effects of climate change and pollution on forest pests, spatial variation in the abundance of insects, the mineralization of carbon by termites, the impact of herbivorous insects, and the conservation of forest insect diversity, including the effects of forest fragmentation and deforestation.
This Royal Entomological Society Symposium volume will be of great interest to all agricultural and forest entomologists, population and community biologists, pest management specialists and anyone concerned with the conservation of forest biodiversity.

Review Quotes

`The book is a very useful source of research information, and provides a good selection of relevant topics in the area of forest entomology ... The book should be present in all entomological research libraries.'
European Journal of Entomology, 96 (2000)