Low Temperature Biology Of Insects

Author : David L. Denlinger,Richard E. Lee, Jr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781139485470

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Low Temperature Biology of Insects by David L. Denlinger,Richard E. Lee, Jr Pdf

Low temperature is a major environmental constraint impacting the geographic distribution and seasonal activity patterns of insects. Written for academic researchers in environmental physiology and entomology, this book explores the physiological and molecular mechanisms that enable insects to cope with a cold environment and places these findings into an evolutionary and ecological context. An introductory chapter provides a primer on insect cold tolerance and subsequent chapters in the first section discuss the organismal, cellular and molecular responses that allow insects to survive in the cold despite their, at best, limited ability to regulate their own body temperature. The second section, highlighting the evolutionary and macrophysiological responses to low temperature, is especially relevant for understanding the impact of global climate change on insect systems. A final section translates the knowledge gained from the rest of the book into practical applications including cryopreservation and the augmentation of pest management strategies.

Author : Richard Lee
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781475701906

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Insects at Low Temperature by Richard Lee Pdf

The study of insects at low temperature is a comparatively new field. Only recently has insect cryobiology begun to mature, as research moves from a descriptive approach to a search for underlying mechanisms at diverse levels of organization ranging from the gene and cell to ecological and evolutionary relationships. Knowledge of insect responses to low temperature is crucial for understanding the biology of insects living in seasonally varying habitats as well as in polar regions. It is not possible to precisely define low temperature. In the tropics exposure to 10-15°C may induce chill coma or death, whereas some insects in temperate and polar regions remain active and indeed even able to fly at O°C or below. In contrast, for persons interested in cryopreservation, low temperature may mean storage in liquid nitrogen at - 196°C. In the last decade, interest in adaptations of invertebrates to low temperature has risen steadily. In part, this book had its origins in a symposium on this subject that was held at the annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America in Louisville, Kentucky, USA in December, 1988. However, the emergence and growth of this area has also been strongly influenced by an informal group of investigators who met in a series of symposia held in Oslo, Norway in 1982, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada in 1985 and in Cambridge, England in 1988. Another is scheduled for Binghamton, New York, USA (1990).

Author : P.L. Steponkus
Publisher : Elsevier Science
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1992-05-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 1559383518

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Advances in Low-Temperature Biology by P.L. Steponkus Pdf

Comprises studies of vitrification from both a biological and physical perspective, thermodynamics and modelling of intracellular ice formation, insect cold hardiness, cryostability of proteins, and adaptations in the photosynthetic activity of freezing-tolerant plants.

Author : Guy J Hallman,David L Denlinger
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000314311

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Temperature Sensitivity In Insects And Application In Integrated Pest Management by Guy J Hallman,David L Denlinger Pdf

This book focuses on an array of integrated pest management tools (IPM) that exploit extreme temperatures, examining the biological basis for using temperature extremes in controlling insects and presenting practical IPM techniques that rely on temperature.

Author : Rachel Lee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0471623431

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Insects at Low Temperature by Rachel Lee Pdf

Author : Bernd Heinrich
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783662103401

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The Hot-Blooded Insects by Bernd Heinrich Pdf

"From one man's persistent and elegant probing of the temperature biology of bees, we have been led to a deeper understanding of the whole biology of many insect taxa, and of their interactions with ecological and environmental stresses: all who work at the interfaces of physiology, ecology and behaviour have cause to be grateful, and all should certainly read this book." (Trends in Ecology & Evolution) "An outstanding source of information, and can be read with profit and satisfaction by the professional biologist and interested amateur alike." (Nature)

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:839992832

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Advances in Low Temperature Biology by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard Lee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1991-02-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1475701918

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Insects at Low Temperatures by Richard Lee Pdf

Author : Nellie M. C. Payne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Cold
ISBN : MINN:31951D00133790W

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Freezing and Survival of Insects at Low Temperature by Nellie M. C. Payne Pdf

Author : David L. Denlinger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781108497527

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Insect Diapause by David L. Denlinger Pdf

Captures the full scope of the literature, integrating ecological and molecular mechanisms that enable insects to enter a dormant state.

Author : John Davenport
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401123440

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Animal Life at Low Temperature by John Davenport Pdf

To humans, cold has a distinctly positive quality. 'Frostbite', 'a nip in the air', 'biting cold', all express the concept of cold as an entity which attacks the body, numbing and damaging it in the process. Probably the richness of descriptive English in this area stems from the early experiences of a group of essentially tropical apes, making their living on a cold and windswept island group half way between the Equator and the Arctic. During a scientific education we soon learn that there is no such thing as cold, only an absence of heat. Cold does not invade us; heat simply deserts. Later still we come to appreciate that temperature is a reflection of kinetic energy, and that the quantity of kinetic energy in a system is determined by the speed of molecular movement. Despite this realization, it is difficult to abandon the sensible prejudices of palaeolithic Homo sapiens shivering in his huts and caves. For example; appreciating that a polar bear is probably as comfortable when swimming from ice floe to ice floe as we are when swimming in the summer Mediterranean is not easy; understanding the thermal sensa tions of a 'cold-blooded' earthworm virtually impossible. We must always be wary of an anthropocentric attitude when considering the effects of cold on other species.

Author : Steven Chown,Sue W. Nicolson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004-07-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0198515480

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Insect Physiological Ecology by Steven Chown,Sue W. Nicolson Pdf

Insects exhibit incredible physiological diversity, making them ideal model organisms for the purpose of this book. The authors draw together the central issues in physiology (nutrition, water balance, temperature, etc.), treating each in sufficient detail to give researchers a broad update in summary form, as well as senior students a feel for current work in the field. In addition, they examine patterns in physiological variation, and go on to explore the mechanisms underlying this variation as well as the ecological and evolutionary consequences.

Author : Simon R. Leather,S. R. Leather,K. F. A. Walters,J. S. Bale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1995-09-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521556708

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The Ecology of Insect Overwintering by Simon R. Leather,S. R. Leather,K. F. A. Walters,J. S. Bale Pdf

Comprehensive account of the various forms of insect overwintering, highlighting areas of economic interest.

Author : Viktor Abramovich Zaslavskiĭ
Publisher : Springer
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015013582393

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Insect Development by Viktor Abramovich Zaslavskiĭ Pdf

Author : Andrew Cossins
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400931275

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Temperature Biology of Animals by Andrew Cossins Pdf

Temperature is one facet in the mosaic of physical and biotic factors that describes the niche of an animal. Ofthe physical factors it is ecologically the most important. for it is a factor that is all-pervasive and one that. in most environments. lacks spatial or temporal constancy. Evolution has produced a wide variety of adaptive strategies and tactics to exploit or deal with this variable environmental factor. The ease with which temperature can be measured. and controlled experimentally. together with its widespread influence on the affairs of animals. has understandably led to a large. dispersed literature. In spite of this no recent book provides a comprehensive treatment of the biology of animals in relation to temperature. Our intention in writing this book was to fill that gap. We hope we have provided a modern statement with a critical synthesis of this diverse field. which will be suitable and stimulating for both advanced undergraduate and post graduate students of biology. This book is emphatically not intended as a monographical review. as thermal biology is such a diverse. developed discipline that it could not be encompassed within the confines of a book of this size.