Insect Sampling in Forest Ecosystems

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Year: 2004
Tongue: English
Leaves: 315
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Insect Sampling in Forest Ecosystems highlights the problems faced by entomologists working in forest ecosystems.

Insects play a major part in all aspects of ecology

Brings together the methodology needed to investigate insects through the various strata of the forest canopy

Covers techniques associated with various specialised groups of forest insects

Each chapter is backed up by a sound approach to experimental design and data analysis

Essential reading for advanced students and researchers as well as teachers

Content:
Chapter 1 Sampling Theory and Practice (pages 1–15): Simon R. Leather and Allan D. Watt
Chapter 2 Sampling Insects from Roots (pages 16–36): Alan C. Gange
Chapter 3 Pitfall Trapping in Ecological Studies (pages 37–57): B. A. Woodcock
Chapter 4 Sampling Methods for Forest Understory Vegetation (pages 58–76): Claire M. P. Ozanne
Chapter 5 Sampling Insects from Trees: Shoots, Stems, and Trunks (pages 77–115): Martin R. Speight
Chapter 6 Insects in Flight (pages 116–145): Mark Young
Chapter 7 Techniques and Methods for Sampling Canopy Insects (pages 146–167): Claire M. P. Ozanne
Chapter 8 Sampling Methods for Water?Filled Tree Holes and Their Artificial Analogues (pages 168–185): S. P. Yanoviak and O. M. Fincke
Chapter 9 Sampling Devices and Sampling Design for Aquatic Insects (pages 186–220): Leon Blaustein and Matthew Spencer
Chapter 10 Methods for Sampling Termites (pages 221–253): David T. Jones, Robert H. J. Verkerk and Paul Eggleton
Chapter 11 Parasitoids and Predators (pages 254–278): Nick Mills

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