This colourful textbook introduces students to conservation biology, the science of preserving biodiversity.

Humans have been fascinated by bees for centuries. Bees display a wide spectrum of behaviours and ecological roles that have provided biologists with a vast amount of material ...

A short, user-friendly guide to forms, functions and evolutionary relationships of invertebrate animals.

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

This volume of Parasitology examines specifically parasite-insect Interaction.

Biologists have long been intrigued and confounded by the complex issues in the evolution and ecology of the social behaviour of insects. The self-sacrifice of sterile workers ...

One hundred years after Darwin considered how sexual selection shapes the behavioral and morphological characteristics of males for acquiring mates, Parker realized that sexual ...

Extraordinary in the diversity of their lifestyles, insect parasitoids have become extremely important study organisms in the field of population biology, and they are the most ...