12. Outbreaks and Ecosystem Services

  1. Pedro Barbosa2,
  2. Deborah K. Letourneau3,
  3. Anurag A. Agrawal4,5
  1. Timothy D. Schowalter

Published Online: 29 JUN 2012

DOI: 10.1002/9781118295205.ch12

Book Title

Insect Outbreaks Revisited

Insect Outbreaks Revisited

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How to Cite

Schowalter, T. D. (2012) Outbreaks and Ecosystem Services, in Insect Outbreaks Revisited (eds P. Barbosa, D. K. Letourneau and A. A. Agrawal), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781118295205.ch12

Editor Information

  1. 2

    Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 USA

  2. 3

    Environmental Studies Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA

  3. 4

    Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA

  4. 5

    Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA

Author Information

  1. Entomology Department, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA

Publication History

  1. Published Online: 29 JUN 2012
  2. Published Print: 27 JUL 2012

ISBN Information

Print ISBN: 9781444337594

Online ISBN: 9781118295205

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Keywords:

  • outbreaks and ecosystem services;
  • ecosystems, humans, and other organisms depending for survival;
  • herbivorous insects, affecting ecosystem services;
  • substantial expenditures in pest control;
  • effects on supporting services;
  • insect outbreaks, negative effects less on primary production;
  • biogeochemical cycling, affecting carbon, nutrient sequestration;
  • insect outbreaks, management goals and perspectives;
  • insecticides in agroecosystems, interfering with natural target “pests”

Summary

This chapter contains sections titled:

  • Introduction

  • Effects on provisioning services

  • Effects on cultural services

  • Effects on supporting services

  • Effects on regulating services

  • Conclusions

  • References

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