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Butterfly Biology Systems
Roger L H Dennis
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Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik / Naturwissenschaften allgemein
Beschreibung
In Butterfly Biology Systems Roger Dennis explores key topics and contentious issues in butterfly biology, specifically those in life history and behaviour. Uniquely, using a systems approach, the book focuses on the degree of integration and feedback between components and elements affecting each issue, as well as the links between different issues. The book comprises four sections. The first two sections introduce the reader to principles and approaches for investigating complex relationships, and provide a platform of knowledge on butterfly biology. The final two sections deal in turn with life history and behaviour, covering key issues affecting different stages of development from eggs to adults. The book is extensively illustrated with original diagrams and models, all of which have detailed legends, produced to enhance a broader understanding, and to provide templates for future research. It includes a detailed bibliography and glossary providing an essential gateway to the extensive literature on butterfly biology. Butterfly Biology Systems is essential reading for graduate students and researchers in insect ecology, evolution, behaviour and conservation. It will also be of great value to anyone interested in butterflies. Introduces a systems approach to butterfly biology Includes succinct reviews of the key interrelationships in butterfly life history and behaviour Illustrates more than 100 models to advance research into butterfly biology systems
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This book is an intellectual tour de force. Roger Dennis writes with fluent enthusiasm and deals confidently with complex concepts providing a thorough glossary of technical terms and concepts to steer the reader through areas where unfamiliarity with specialist jargon could be a barrier to understanding and to counter 'familiarity fallacy syndrome'
This book represents a truly daring attempt to organize a butterfly literature that has grown beyond all bounds and that fragments and anastomoses simultaneously even as we watch. This is an expensive limited-edition book. But if you fancy yourself a butterfly biologist, you need it. It provides road maps (flow charts are very like road maps!) to attacking the many problems that Dennis'
The book is a must for anybody who wants to study butterfly (and not only) biology and ecology seriously. I believe that it also represents a source of inspiration for people studying different organisms.
Ground covered is broad; to deal with everything in detail would require a whole bookshelf. The book clearly explains basic - but far from uncomplicated - concepts, supported by a glossary of terms of exceptional clarity...which goes the extra mile in explaining ideas. Text is supported by a plethora of colourful and simplified figures and charts which in some books and publications can be daunting, but here captions are as lengthy and detailed as required to explain a point or principle. As a comprehensive whole this book serves as a fascinating, deftly and elegantly written summary of current knowledge. It doesn'
Even by its own admission, this is a truly extraordinary work.
This work will probably be of greatest help to university-based ecologists, supervisors and doctoral students interested, or potentially interested in butterflies as model organisms (I am tempted to say systems), as it offers 'in one place'
Roger Dennis'
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wildlife habitat conservation, insect conservation, butterfly, butterflies, life history strategies, biodiversity conservation, insect mating systems, lepidoptera, insect ecology, insect behaviour, systems biology, sex determination