The Insects: An Outline of Entomology
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (737 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 111884615X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 624 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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Over 50 colour photographs, together with the informative text and an accompanying website with links to video clips, appendices, textboxes and further reading lists, encourage a deeper scientific study of insects. New boxes describe a worrying increase in insect threats to landscape and commercial trees (including eucalypts, palms and coffee) and explain the value of genetic data, including evolutionary developmental biology and DNA barcoding, in insect biodiversity studies. Updated ‘Taxoboxes’ demonstrate topical issues and provide concise information on all aspects of each of the 28 major groupings (orders) of insects, plus the three orders of non-insect hexapods. This popular textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to this extraordinary diversity, a
Both maintain emeritus connections with the Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of California, Davis, USA.. Penny Gullan and Peter Cranston are adjunct professors in Evolution, Ecology and Genetics, in the Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, where they conduct research on the biodiversity and systematics of Coccoidea and Chironomidae, respectively
The remarkable range of content, coupled with the resources to support learning,is exceptional. global climate change, globalized commerce, and invasive insectsThe book is supported by a companion website that includes Powerpoint versions of all illustrations and PDFs of all tables, thereby aiding lecture development. Insects can capture the imagination of new students, but showing those students that Entomology can sustain an exciting life is the means to recruit the ablest minds to our discipline. This book is an excellent ambassador to that pursuit.” (Cornell University Insect Collection, 8 December 2014)"Gullan and Cranston’s fifth edition is a textbook that should be on every entomologist’s shelf. It is a comprehensive introduction
"Like most general entomology books" according to Mocha Man. Like most general entomology books, identifying major groups of insects is one focus of this text. Unlike other classic texts, such as Borer & Delong's "Study of Insects" (now authored by Triplehorn & Johnson, 7th ed.) that are mainly taxonomy oriented for identification of insect families among the various orders, this text focuses more on biological information in the context of physiological ecology, . Five Stars Jeff T. Love this book, Thanks!. Five Stars great