Insects and Wildlife: Arthropods and their Relationships with Wild Vertebrate AnimalsISBN: 978-1-4443-3300-8
Paperback
500 pages
March 2010, Wiley-Blackwell
Other Available Formats: Hardcover
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Acknowledgments.
SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE ARTHROPODS.
CHAPTER 1 INSECTS AND THEIR RELATIVES.
CHAPTER 2 STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF INSECTS.
SECTION 2: FOOD RELATIONSHIPS.
CHAPTER 3 FOOD RESOURCES FOR WILDLIFE.
CHAPTER 4 WILDLIFE DIETS.
CHAPTER 5 INSECTS IMPORTANT AS FOOD FOR WILDLIFE.
CHAPTER 6 INSECTS AND ECOSYSTEMS.
SECTION 3: ARTHROPODS AS DISEASE VECTORS AND PESTS.
CHAPTER 7 TRANSMISSION OF DISEASE AGENTS TO WILDLIFE BY ARTHROPODS.
CHAPTER 8 INFECTIOUS DISEASE AGENTS TRANSMITTED TO WILDLIFE BY ARTHROPODS.
CHAPTER 9 PARASITIC DISEASE AGENTS TRANSMITTED TO WILDLIFE BY ARTHROPODS.
CHAPTER 10 ARTHROPODS AS PARASITES OF WILDLIFE.
SECTION 4: PEST MANAGEMENT AND ITS EFFECTS ON WILDLIFE.
CHAPTER 11 PESTICIDES AND THEIR EFFECTS ON WILDLIFE.
CHAPTER 12 ALTERNATIVES TO INSECTICIDES.
SECTION 5: CONSERVATION ISSUES.
CHAPTER 13 INSECT–WILDLIFE RELATIONSHIPS.
CHAPTER 14 INSECT AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION.
Glossary.
Index.