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Author Woiwod, I. P

Title Insect Movement : Mechanisms and Consequences
Published Wallingford : CAB International, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (468 pages)
Contents Contributors; 1 Introduction and Overview; 2 The Biomechanics and Functional Diversity of Flight; 3 How Insect Wings Evolved; 4 Physiology and Endocrine Control of Flight; 5 Insect Behaviours Associated with Resource Finding; 6 Host Location by Parasitoids; 7 Flight Trajectories of Foraging Insects: Observations Using Harmonic Radar; 8 The Evolution of Migratory Syndromes in Insects; 9 Orientation Mechanisms and Migration Strategies Within the Flight Boundary Layer; 10 Characterizing Insect Migration Systems in Inland Australia with Novel and Traditional Methodologies
Summary Insect movement is a subject that has seen many advances in the 1980s and 1990s. This book is based on the main papers presented at the Royal Entomological Society's 20th Symposium on this topic, held in September 1999
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Subject Insects -- Locomotion -- Congresses
Insects -- Flight -- Congresses
Insects -- Flight
Insects -- Locomotion
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Reynolds, D. R
Thomas, C. D
ISBN 9780851997810
0851997813