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This book focuses on an array of integrated pest management tools
(IPM) that exploit extreme temperatures, examining the biological
basis for using temperature extremes in controlling insects and
presenting practical IPM techniques that rely on temperature.
This book focuses on an array of integrated pest management tools
(IPM) that exploit extreme temperatures, examining the biological
basis for using temperature extremes in controlling insects and
presenting practical IPM techniques that rely on temperature.
Our highly seasonal world restricts insect activity to brief
portions of the year. This feature necessitates a sophisticated
interpretation of seasonal changes and enactment of mechanisms for
bringing development to a halt and then reinitiating it when the
inimical season is past. The dormant state of diapause serves to
bridge the unfavourable seasons, and its timing provides a powerful
mechanism for synchronizing insect development. This book explores
how seasonal signals are monitored and used by insects to enact
specific molecular pathways that generate the diapause phenotype.
The broad perspective offered here scales from the ecological to
the molecular and thus provides a comprehensive view of this
exciting and vibrant research field, offering insights on topics
ranging from pest management, evolution, speciation, climate change
and disease transmission, to human health, as well as analogies
with other forms of invertebrate dormancy and mammalian
hibernation.
Low temperature is a major environmental constraint impacting the
geographic distribution and seasonal activity patterns of insects.
Written for academic researchers in environmental physiology and
entomology, this book explores the physiological and molecular
mechanisms that enable insects to cope with a cold environment and
places these findings into an evolutionary and ecological context.
An introductory chapter provides a primer on insect cold tolerance
and subsequent chapters in the first section discuss the
organismal, cellular and molecular responses that allow insects to
survive in the cold despite their, at best, limited ability to
regulate their own body temperature. The second section,
highlighting the evolutionary and macrophysiological responses to
low temperature, is especially relevant for understanding the
impact of global climate change on insect systems. A final section
translates the knowledge gained from the rest of the book into
practical applications including cryopreservation and the
augmentation of pest management strategies.
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