19. Insect Invasions: Lessons from Biological Control of Weeds

  1. Pedro Barbosa4,
  2. Deborah K. Letourneau5,
  3. Anurag A. Agrawal6,7
  1. Peter B. McEvoy1,
  2. Fritzi S. Grevstad2,
  3. Shon S. Schooler3

Published Online: 29 JUN 2012

DOI: 10.1002/9781118295205.ch19

Book Title

Insect Outbreaks Revisited

Insect Outbreaks Revisited

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How to Cite

McEvoy, P. B., Grevstad, F. S. and Schooler, S. S. (2012) Insect Invasions: Lessons from Biological Control of Weeds, in Insect Outbreaks Revisited (eds P. Barbosa, D. K. Letourneau and A. A. Agrawal), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781118295205.ch19

Editor Information

  1. 4

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

  2. 5

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

  3. 6

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

  4. 7

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

Author Information

  1. 1

    Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331-4501 USA

  2. 2

    Olympic Natural Resources Center, Long Beach, WA 98631 USA

  3. 3

    CSIRO Entomology – Indooroopilly, Indooroopilly QLD 4068, Australia

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:

  • insect invasions, lessons from biological control of weeds;
  • theory of invasions, for spatial and temporal fluctuations of arthropods;
  • population establishment, a stochastic process;
  • stochasticity, Allee effects, and number of individuals released;
  • Allee effect, population growth rate reduction at low densities;
  • biotic interactions affecting insect dynamics;
  • competitive interactions, one control organism preying on another;
  • top-down effects of natural enemies on herbivore demography;
  • herbivores and resources, mechanism and feed back to plants;
  • biological control systems, invasion, spread and dispersal

Summary

This chapter contains sections titled:

  • Introduction

  • Population establishment

  • Population growth and spatial spread

  • Abiotic influences on insect dynamics

  • Biotic interactions affecting insect dynamics

  • Summary

  • References

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