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Insect Herbivore-Host Dynamics: Tree-Dwelling Aphids

Name: Insect Herbivore-Host Dynamics: Tree-Dwelling Aphids
Author: A. F. G. Dixon
ISBN: 9781107402638

by A. F. G. Dixon

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Overview

Designed to introduce students and research workers to insect herbivore-host dynamics, this book uses the interaction between aphids and trees as a model. Challenging the belief that population dynamics of insect herbivores are heavily influenced by the action of their natural enemies, it demonstrates that tree dwelling species of aphids actually regulate their own population through competition for resources.

About the Author, A. F. G. Dixon

A. F. G.Dixon is an Emeritus Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of East Anglia. He has written over 200 papers on aphids and their natural enemies in scientific journals, and has written or edited 10 books. In 1992, he was awarded the Gregor Mendel Gold Medal by the Czech Academy of Science, in 2000 a medal of honour by Akademia Podlaska, Poland, and in 2001 became Laureate of the University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic.