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Behavioral ecology of insect parasitoids
from theoretical approaches to field applications
1 online resource (xvi, 445 pages) : illustrations
Contributors -- Preface -- Part I: Current issues in behavioral ecology of insect parasitoids -- 1. Optimal foraging behavior and efficient biological control methods / Nick J. Mills and Éric Wajnberg -- 2. Parasitoid fitness: from a simple idea to an intricate concept / Minus van Baalen and Lia Hemerik -- 3. Parasitoid foraging and oviposition behavior in the field / George E. Heimpel and Jérôme Casas -- 4. Behavior influences whether intra-guild predation disrupts herbivore suppression by parasitoids / William E. Snyder and Anthony R. Ives -- 5. Chemical and behavioral ecology in insect parasitoids: how to behave optimally in a complex odorous environment? / Monika Hilker and Jeremy McNeil -- 6. Parasitoid and host nutritional physiology in behavioral ecology / Michael R. Strand and Jérôme Casas -- 7. Food-searching in parasitoids: the dilemma of choosing between?immediate? or future fitness gains / Carlos Bernstein and Mark Jervis -- 8. Information acquisition, information processing, and patch time allocation in insect parasitoids / Jacques J.M. van Alphen and Carlos Bernstein -- 9. Competition and asymmetric wars of attrition in insect parasitoids / Patsy Haccou and Jacques J.M. van Alphen -- 10. Risk assessment and host exploitation strategies in insect parasitoids / Luc-Alain Giraldeau and Guy Boivin -- Part 2. Extension of behavioral ecology of insect parasitoids to other fields -- 11. Multitrophic interactions and parasitoid behavioral ecology / Louise E.M. Vet and H. Charles J. Godfray -- 12. Parasitoid sex ratios and biological control / Paul J. Ode and Ian C.W. Hardy -- 13. Linking foraging and dynamics / Michael B. Bonsall and Carlos Bernstein -- 14. Linking behavioral ecology to the study of host resistance and parasitoid counter-resistance / Alex R. Kraaijeveld and H. Charles J. Godfray -- Part 3. Methodological issues in behavioral ecology -- 15. State-dependent problems for parasitoids: case studies and solutions / Bernard Roitberg and Pierre Bernhard -- 16. A Bayesian approach to optimal foraging in parasitoids / Jean-Sébastien Pierre and Richard F. Green -- 17. dt Finding optimal behaviors with genetic algorithms / Thomas S. Hoffmeister and Éric Wajnberg -- Statistical tools for analyzing data on behavioral ecology of insect parasitoids / Éric Wajnberg and Patsy Haccou -- Index.
edited by Éric Wajnberg, Carlos Bernstein, and Jacques van Alphen.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2008