| | Ecology of Insects(4th Edition) Concepts and Applications by Professor Martin R. Speight, Allan D. Watt, Mark D. Hunter, Sir Richard Southwood Paperback, 360 Pages, Published 1999 by Wiley-Blackwell Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-0-86542-745-7, ISBN: 0-86542-745-3
"Insects represent over half of all our biological diversity. They pervade terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems functioning as carnivores, herbivores and detritivores. Their ecology is of crucial economic importance to our planet and therefore ourselves--as pests of our crops, vectors of diseases, as beneficials in food webs, pollination and biological control. This textbook strikes a balance between theory and practice and between pure ..."
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