Desert Locust Plagues
Title | Desert Locust Plagues PDF eBook |
Author | Colin Everard |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2018-11-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1786734850 |
For thousands of years, humans have found themselves vulnerable to plagues of desert locusts. Some fifty countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia have been ravaged, at one time or another, by huge, devouring swarms of locusts. With the consequent, often total, destruction of crops and grazing, widespread hunger and starvation ensued. Colin Everard's book takes as its geographical focus the Horn of Africa, an area which throughout history has suffered catastrophically from locust plagues. Based on his own extensive experience in the region, Everard describes one of the greatest (albeit unsung) triumphs of the twentieth century, namely, how the desert locust scourge has, at last, been virtually brought under control.
Desert Locusts in the Caribbean
Title | Desert Locusts in the Caribbean PDF eBook |
Author | Barry Stemshorn |
Publisher | IICA Biblioteca Venezuela |
Pages | 86 |
Release | 1988 |
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The Desert Locust
Title | The Desert Locust PDF eBook |
Author | Stanley Richard Baron |
Publisher | |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | Science |
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Area-Wide Control of Insect Pests
Title | Area-Wide Control of Insect Pests PDF eBook |
Author | M.J.B. Vreysen |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 758 |
Release | 2007-10-30 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1402060599 |
Insect pests are becoming a problem of ever-more biblical proportions. This new textbook collates a series of selected papers that attempt to address various fundamental components of area-wide insect pest control. Of special interest are the numerous papers on pilot and operational programs that pay special attention to practical problems encountered during program implementation. It’s a compilation of more than 60 papers authored by experts from more than 30 countries.
Phenotypic Plasticity of Insects
Title | Phenotypic Plasticity of Insects PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas Whitman |
Publisher | CRC Press |
Pages | 914 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Nature |
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This book explores the profound importance of phenotypic plasticity as a central organizing theme for understanding biology. Chapters take a broad, integrative approach to explain how physical and biological environmental stimuli (temperature, photoperiod, nutrition, population density, predator presence, etc.), influence insect biochemical, physiological, learning, and developmental processes, altering phenotype, which then influences performance, ecology, life-history, survival, fitness, and subsequent evolution. Topics include endocrinology, development, body size, allometry, polyphenism, reproduction, reproductive and life-history tradeoffs, alternative mating and life-history strategies, density-dependent prophylaxis, physiological adaptation, acclimation, homeostasis, heat-shock proteins, learning, adaptive anti-predator behavior, and evolution of phenotypic plasticity.
Controlling the Desert Locust in the Near East
Title | Controlling the Desert Locust in the Near East PDF eBook |
Author | Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in the Near East |
Publisher | |
Pages | 49 |
Release | 1995 |
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Locust Handbook
Title | Locust Handbook PDF eBook |
Author | A. Steedman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Desert locust |
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