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Insects and Wildlife (Paperback)
$71.76 - Save $3.77 (4%) - RRP $75.53 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Insects and Wildlife* First book to offer comprehensive overview of this area of ecology* Aimed at professional and student wildlife biologists and entomologists* Focuses on the rapidly expanding area of wildlife disease management .
Full description- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)
- Published: 06 April 2010
- Format: Paperback 500 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Zoology & Animal Sciences | Insects (entomology)
- ISBN 13: 9781444333008 ISBN 10: 1444333003
- Sales rank: 768,266
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Full description for Insects and Wildlife
Insects and Wildlife: Arthropods and their Relationships with Wild Vertebrate Animals provides a comprehensive overview of the interrelationships of insects and wildlife. It serves as an introduction to insects and other arthropods for wildlife management and other vertebrate biology students, and emphasizes the importance of insects to wild vertebrate animals. The book emphasizes how insects exert important influences on wildlife habitat suitability and wildlife population sustainability, including their direct and indirect effects on wildlife health. Among the important topics covered are: * the importance of insects as food items for vertebrate animals; * the role of arthropods as determinants of ecosystem health and productivity; * the ability of arthropods to transmit disease-causing agents; * an overview of representative disease-causing agents transmitted by arthropods; * arthropods as pests and parasites of vertebrates; * the hazards to wildlife associated with using using pesticides to protect against insect damage; * insect management using techniques other than pesticides; * the importance of insect conservation and how insects influence wildlife conservation.
