Part I - Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
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We introduce insect ecology by looking at the many remarkable features of the insects: their long evolutionary history, important design characteristics, including wings and flight, and the prodigious numbers of species and numbers of individuals per species. Inevitably, such vast richness entails many kinds of interaction, the basis for the study of insect ecology, because individuals and species provide part of the environment which any insect experiences. Ecology is the science of relationships of organisms to their environment: the physical and the biotic components with which they interact. How they relate depends on their design and their behavior, the latter aspect forming of this book.
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- Insect EcologyBehavior, Populations and Communities, pp. 1 - 2Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011