Ebook Download | Insect Movement | This fascinating collection of technical papers present background and original research in the areas of flight physiology, resource finding, migration, dispersal, genetics, and range changes. Depending upon your background, or desire to grapple with the details, some of the papers are quite technical; such as the math behind Britton et al. discussion of deterministic metapopulation models, or chemistry behind proline use in Goldsworthy and Joyce.
The papers cover a variety of taxonomic classes. I was intrigued by Hardie et al description of odour plumes "as cooked spaghetti pouring out of a chimney" .. when describing, for example, fruit fly orienting to an odor source. Dingle's description of wing polymorphism of the soapberry bug was a fascinating exploration of selection of phenotypes. Franks description of self organization of army ant swarm raids was a pure joy. The technology ranged from Srygley and Oliveira tracking butterflies by boat in Panama, to Riley and Osborne's use of harmonic radar to track foraging bumblebees. Also impressive was Drake et al description of network of data gathering light traps, insect monitoring radar, and GIS habitat assessment, to track locust movement in Australia. Overall a good technical collection.
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