Population Biology of Tropical Insects
Population Biology of Tropical Insects
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热带昆虫的种群生物学
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10.1007/978-1-4684-1113-3
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1983
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A. Young
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在这本书中，我试图将热带环境中昆虫种群研究的主要进展汇集在一起。在某些方面，这项任务一直是一项困难的任务，因为从概念上讲，将昆虫生态学的讨论限制在热带地区几乎是不可能的，因为关于生境支持昆虫种群的机制的相同概念、理论和假设通常既适用于温带地区，也适用于热带地区。因此，人们可能会有效地争辩说，像彼得·普赖斯的《昆虫生态学》这样的书代表了对昆虫生态学的更全面的处理，包括热带方面。然而，由于近年来有大量关于热带昆虫的新研究，而且历史上对热带昆虫也有很大的兴趣，从早期的博物馆探险以及对新旧大陆热带昆虫的医学和农业研究来看，我相信有一本书几乎完全是关于热带昆虫的。但从逻辑上讲，这样一本书必然会纳入温带研究的数据和信息，即使没有其他原因，也是因为对热带环境特性的洞察往往来自温带和热带地区之间的物种、群落或动物群的比较。对热带昆虫种群的了解不能脱离对温带种群的考虑。
In this book I have tried to bring together the major developments in the study of insect populations in tropical environments. In some ways, this task has been a difficult one because conceptually it is virtually impossible to limit a discussion of insect ecology to the tropics, since the same concepts, theories, and hypoth eses concerning the mechanisms by which habitats support insect populations often apply both to temperate and to tropical regions. Thus one might argue effectively that a book such as Peter Price's Insect Ecology represents a more comprehensive treatment of insect ecology, including the tropical aspects. Yet because there has been a tremendous amount of new study on insects in the tropics in recent years, and because there has also been a strong historical interest in tropical insects, judging from early museum expeditions and medically and agriculturally oriented studies of insects in the New and Old World tropics, I believe there is a place for a book dealing almost exclusively with tropical insects. But logically so, such a book by necessity incorporates data and informa tion from Temperate Zone studies, if for no other reason than because insights into the properties of tropical environments often emerge from compariso'ns of species, communities, or faunas between temperate and tropical regions. An understanding of insect populations in the tropics cannot be divorced from a consideration of Temperate Zone populations.