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Wood Ant Ecology and Conservation
Jenni Stockan
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Description for Wood Ant Ecology and Conservation
hardcover. A concise and contemporary synthesis of research into the ecology and conservation of wood ants, encompassing all known species. Editor(s): Stockan, Jenni A.; Robinson, Elva J. H. Series: Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation. Num Pages: 270 pages, 98 b/w illus. 18 tables. BIC Classification: PSV; PSVS; PSVT; PSVT7; RNC; RNK; RNKH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 235 x 19. Weight in Grams: 624.
Wood ants play an ecologically dominant and conspicuous role in temperate boreal forests, making a keystone contribution to woodland ecosystem functions and processes. Wood ant taxonomy and global distributions set the scene for this text's exploration of wood ants as social insects, examining their flexible social structures, genetics, population ecology, and behaviour, from nest-mate recognition to task allocation. Wood ants' interactions with their environment and with other organisms are essential to their success: competition, predation and mutualism are described and analysed. Bringing together the expertise of ecological researchers and conservation practitioners, this book provides practical and theoretical advice about sampling ... Read more
Wood ants play an ecologically dominant and conspicuous role in temperate boreal forests, making a keystone contribution to woodland ecosystem functions and processes. Wood ant taxonomy and global distributions set the scene for this text's exploration of wood ants as social insects, examining their flexible social structures, genetics, population ecology, and behaviour, from nest-mate recognition to task allocation. Wood ants' interactions with their environment and with other organisms are essential to their success: competition, predation and mutualism are described and analysed. Bringing together the expertise of ecological researchers and conservation practitioners, this book provides practical and theoretical advice about sampling ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation
Condition
New
Number of Pages
270
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107048331
SKU
V9781107048331
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About Jenni Stockan
Jenni A. Stockan is an entomologist and environmental researcher at the Department of Environmental and Biochemical Sciences, The James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen. Her research covers tree-insect interactions, and riparian and wetland ecology. Elva J. H. Robinson is a Lecturer in Ecology at the Department of Biology, University of York. Her research area is the behavioural ecology of social animal groups, ... Read more
Reviews for Wood Ant Ecology and Conservation
'… this book is to be recommended to any scientist with a specific interest in wood ants, be it from an academic or a more applied perspective.' Konrad Fiedler, Myrmecological News 'The volume is a great synthesis of the decades of studies on wood ants and I enjoyed reading it very much. … I think Wood Ant Ecology and Conservation ... Read more