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This book examines our current understanding of the population dynamics of one kind of interaction--that between insect parasitoids and their hosts. Parasitoids are amongst the most abundant of all animals, and make up about 10% or more of metazoan species. Almost no insect species escape their atta...
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Oxford,New York
Oxford University Press
2000
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| Institutions: | Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh |
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| Summary: | This book examines our current understanding of the population dynamics of one kind of interaction--that between insect parasitoids and their hosts. Parasitoids are amongst the most abundant of all animals, and make up about 10% or more of metazoan species. Almost no insect species escape their attack. Host-parasitoid interactions were first modelled over fifty years ago, but for many years there was little good empirical information on the important factors that affect host and parasitoid populations |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 200 p. 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-189) |
| ISBN: | 0198540892 9780198540892 |