Pedro Barbosa & Deborah K. Letourneau 
Insect Outbreaks Revisited [PDF ebook] 

The abundance of insects can change dramatically from generation to
generation; these generational changes may occur within a growing
season or over a period of years. Such extraordinary density
changes or ‘outbreaks’ may be abrupt and ostensibly random, or
population peaks may occur in a more or less cyclic fashion. They
can be hugely destructive when the insect is a crop pest or carries
diseases of humans, farm animals, or wildlife. Knowledge of these
types of population dynamics and computer models that may help
predict when they occur are very important.

This important new book revisits a subject not thoroughly
discussed in such a publication since 1988 and brings an
international scale to the issue of insect outbreaks.

Insect Outbreaks Revisited is intended for senior
undergraduate and graduate students in ecology, population biology
and entomology, as well as government and industry scientists doing
research on pests, land managers, pest management personnel,
extension personnel, conservation biologists and ecologists, and
state, county and district foresters.

Tabella dei contenuti

Contributors viii

Acknowledgments xi

Preface xii

PART I PHYSIOLOGICAL AND LIFE HISTORY PERSPECTIVES 1

1 Insect Herbivore Outbreaks Viewed through a Physiological
Framework: Insights from Orthoptera 3

Spencer T. Behmer and Anthony Joern

2 The Dynamical Effects of Interactions between Inducible Plant
Resistance and Food Limitation during Insect Outbreaks 30

Karen C. Abbott

3 Immune Responses and Their Potential Role in Insect Outbreaks
47

J. Gwen Shlichta and Angela M. Smilanich

4 The Role of Ecological Stoichiometry in Outbreaks of Insect
Herbivores 71

Eric M. Lind and Pedro Barbosa

PART II POPULATION DYNAMICS AND MULTISPECIES INTERACTIONS
89

5 Plant-Induced Responses and Herbivore Population Dynamics
91

André Kessler, Katja Poveda, and Erik H. Poelman

6 Spatial Synchrony of Insect Outbreaks 113

Andrew M. Liebhold, Kyle J. Haynes, and Ottar N.
Bjørnstad

7 What Tree-Ring Reconstruction Tells Us about Conifer
Defoliator Outbreaks 126

Ann M. Lynch

8 Insect-Associated Microorganisms and Their Possible Role in
Outbreaks 155

Yasmin J. Cardoza, Richard W. Hofstetter, and Fernando E.
Vega

PART III POPULATION, COMMUNITY, AND ECOSYSTEM ECOLOGY
175

9 Life History Traits and Host Plant Use in Defoliators and Bark
Beetles: Implications for Population Dynamics 177

Julia Koricheva, Maartje J. Klapwijk, and Christer
Björkman

10 The Ecological Consequences of Insect Outbreaks 197

Louie H. Yang

11 Insect Outbreaks in Tropical Forests: Patterns, Mechanisms,
and Consequences 219

Lee A. Dyer, Walter P. Carson, and Egbert G. Leigh Jr.

12 Outbreaks and Ecosystem Services 246

Timothy D. Schowalter

PART IV GENETICS AND EVOLUTION 267

13 Evidence for Outbreaks from the Fossil Record of Insect
Herbivory 269

Conrad C. Labandeira

14 Implications of Host-Associated Differentiation in the
Control of Pest Species 291

Raul F. Medina

PART V APPLIED PERSPECTIVES 311

15 Disasters by Design: Outbreaks along Urban Gradients
313

Michael J. Raupp, Paula M. Shrewsbury, and Dan A. Herms

16 Resistance to Transgenic Crops and Pest Outbreaks 341

Bruce E. Tabashnik and Yves Carrière

17 Natural Enemies and Insect Outbreaks in Agriculture: A
Landscape Perspective 355

J. Megan Woltz, Benjamin P. Werling, and Douglas A.
Landis

18 Integrated Pest Management – Outbreaks Prevented,
Delayed, or Facilitated? 371

Deborah K. Letourneau

19 Insect Invasions: Lessons from Biological Control of Weeds
395

Peter B. Mc Evoy, Fritzi S. Grevstad, and Shon S.
Schooler

20 Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on Outbreak Potential
429

Maartje J. Klapwijk, Matthew P. Ayres, Andrea Battisti, and Stig
Larsson

Subject Index 451

Taxonomic Index 459

Colour plate pages fall between pp. 196 and 197

Circa l’autore

Pedro Barbosa was born in Guayama, Puerto Rico and raised in
Spanish Harlem, in New York City. He received his B.S. in biology
from the City College of New York and his M.S. and Ph.D. at the
University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Pedro’s research interests
are in theoretical and applied ecology of plant-insect interactions
with an emphasis on tri-trophic interactions. He has authored or
coauthored many refereed publications, and written or edited 13
books.

Deborah K. Letourneau’s Bachelor’s, Master’s and doctoral
degrees are from the University of Michigan and University of
California at Berkeley. As Professor of Environmental Studies at
the University of California, Santa Cruz her research concerns
plant-insect interactions, biodiversity, and environmental risk in
the context of decision-making that sustains both livelihoods and
the environment.

Anurag A. Agrawal studies the evolutionary ecology of
plants and insects as a professor at Cornell University’s
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Department of
Entomology. His work spans community ecology, invasive species,
coevolution, and ecological genetics. Please visit his lab website
www.herbivory.com for
current projects and research.