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Dynamics of Forest Insect Populations - Patterns, Causes, Implications (Hardcover, 1988 ed.)
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Dynamics of Forest Insect Populations - Patterns, Causes, Implications (Hardcover, 1988 ed.)
Series: Population Ecology
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Insects multiply. Destruction reigns. There is dismay, followed by
outcry, and demands to Authority. Authority remembers its experts
or appoints some: they ought to know. The experts advise a Cure.
The Cure can be almost anything: holy water from Mecca, a
Government Commis sion, a culture of bacteria, poison, prayers
denunciatory or tactful, a new god, a trap, a Pied Piper. The Cures
have only one thing in common: with a little patience they always
work. They have never been known entirely to fail. Likewise they
have never been known to prevent the next outbreak. For the cycle
of abundance and scarcity has a rhythm of its own, and the Cures
are applied just when the plague of insects is going to abate
through its own loss of momentum. -Abridged, with insects in place
of voles, from C. Elton, 1924, Voles, Mice and Lemmings, with
permission of Oxford University Press This book is an enquiry into
the "natural rhythms" of insect abundance in forested ecosystems
and into the forces that give rise to these rhythms. Forests form
unique environ ments for such studies because one can find them
growing under relatively natural (pri meval) conditions as well as
under the domination of human actions. Also, the slow growth and
turnover rates of forested ecosystems enable us to investigate
insect popula tion dynamics in a plant environment that remains
relatively constant or changes only slowly, this in contrast to
agricultural systems, where change is often drastic and frequent."
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