DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY
Entomology Classes ENT 5041

Insect Ecology

Readings

Fall 2006, D.A. Andow

Readings (additional readings may be added for selected lectures, * indicates papers available online)

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Class 2, Sept. 7

*Brown, J. H., J. F. Gillooly, A. P. Allen, V. M. Savage & G. B. West.  2004.  Toward of metabolic theory of ecology.  Ecology 85: 1771-1789.

Optional Reading:

Thompson, D.  1992.  On Growth and Form, Chapter 2, On Magnitude, pp. 15-48.  Canto Edition of the 1961 abridged edition of the 1941 2nd edition.  Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.

Class 3, Sept. 12

Hinton, H.E. 1977. Enabling mechanisms. Proceedings of the XV International Congress of Entomology (Wash.), 71-83.

Class 4, Sept. 14

Smart, J. and Hughes, N.F. 1972.  The insect and the plant: progressive paleoecological integration.  In H.F. van Emden (ed.), Insect/Plant Relationships (Blackwell: Oxford). Symposium of the Royal Entomological Society, London 6:143-155.

Optional Reading:

Eastop, V.F.  1973.  Deductions from the present day host plants of aphids and related insects, pp. 157-199.  In H.F. van Emden, ed., Insect/ Plant Relationships.  Blackwell, Oxford.

Class 5, Sept 19

Abstract exercise

Class 6, Sept. 21

* Mattson, W.J., Jr.  1980.  Herbivory in relation to plant nitrogen content.  Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 11: 119-161.

* Elser, J. J., W. F. Fagan, R. F. Denno, D. R. Dobberfuhl, A. Folarin, A. Huberty, S. Interlandi, S. S. Kilham, E. McCauley, K. L. Schulz, E. H. Siemann and R. W. Sterner.  2000.  Nutritional constraints in terrestrial and freshwater food webs.  Nature 408: 578-580.

Optional Reading:

* Elser, J. J., D. R. Dobberfuhl, N.A. MacKay and J. H. Schampel.  1996.  Organism size, life history, and N:P stoichiometry.  BioScience 46: 674-684

Class 7, Sept. 28

Hodson, A.C. 1972.  Distribution and abundance of the northern walking stick, Diapheromera femorata.  Annals of the Entomological Society of America 65: 876-882.

* Campbell, A., B. D Frazer, N. Gilbert, A. P. Gutierrez and M. Mackauer.  1974.  Temperature requirements of some aphids and their parasites.  J. Appl. Ecol. 11:431-438.

Optional Reading:

Ratte, H.T.  1984.  Temperature and insect development.  In K.H. Hoffman, ed., Environmental Physiology and Biochemistry, Chapter 2, pp. 33-51.  Springer Verlag, Berlin.

Class 8, Oct. 3

Thornhill, R. and J. Alcock. 1983.  The Evolution of Insect Mating Systems.  Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA.  Chapter 3.  Sexual Selection Theory, pp. 51-89.

* Carson, H. L.  2002.  Female choice in Drosophila: evidence from Hawaii and implications for evolutionary biology.  Genetica 116: 383-393.

Class 9, Oct. 5

* Dingle, H. 1972.  Migration strategies of insects.  Science 175:1327-1335.

Optional Reading:

Johnson, C.G.  1976.  Lability of the flight system:  A context for functional adaptation.  Royal Entomol. Soc. Symp. 7:217-234.

Class 10, Oct. 10

Rainey, R.C.  1976.  Flight behaviour and features of the atmospheric environment.  In R.C. Rainey (Ed.), Insect Flight, Symposium Royal Entomol. Soc. London 7 (John Wiley & Sons:NY), pp. 75-112.

Class 11, Oct. 12

* Jervis, M. A., G. E. Heimpel, P. Ferns, J. Harvey and N. Kidd.  2001.  Life history strategies in parasitoid wasps: a comparative analysis of ‘ovigeny’.  Journal of Animal Ecology 70: 442-458.

* Rosenheim, J.A. and D. Rosen.  1991.  Foraging and oviposition decisions in the parasitoid Aphytis lingnanensis:  Distinguishing the influences of egg load and experience.  Journal of Animal Ecology 60: 873-893.

Class 12, Oct. 17

* Vaupel, J.W. and A.I. Yashin.  1985.  Heterogeneity’s ruses: Some surprising effects of selection on population dynamics.  Amer. Statistician 39: 176-185.

Optional Reading:

Carey, J. R.  2003.  Longevity: The biology and demography of life span.  Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ.  Chapter 2.3 Analytical methods, pp. 13-25; Chapter 8.1-8.3 General biodemographic principles, pp. 176-183.

Class 13, Oct. 19

* Turchin, P.  1990.  Rarity of density dependence of population regulation with lags?  Nature 344: 660-663.

* Bjørnstad, O.N., Sait, S.M., Stenseth, N.C., Thompson, D.J. & Begon, M. (2001) The impact of specialised enemies on the dimensionality of host dynamics. Nature 401: 1001-1006.

* Hochberg, M. E. and A. E. Weis2001. Bagging the lag. Nature 409: 992-993.

Optional Reading:

* Turchin, P. and A. D. Taylor. 1992. Complex dynamics in ecological time series. Ecology 73:289-305.

Class 14, Oct. 24

* Harrison, S. and A. Hastings. 1996. Genetic and evolutionary consequences of metapopulation structure. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 11:180-183.

Tilman, D., C. L. Lehman and P. Kareiva. 1997. Population dynamics in spatial habitats. In D. Tilman and P. Kareiva Spatial Ecology: The Role of Space in Population Dynamics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. pp. 3-20.

Class 15, Oct. 26

Varley, GC, GR Gradwell and MP Hassell.  1973.  Insect Population Ecology:  An Analytical Approach (U Cal:  Berkeley), Chapter 7, pp. 112-134.
(READ BEFORE CLASS LECTURE)

* Feeny, P.  1970.  Seasonal changes in oak leaf tannins and nutrients as a cause of spring feeding by winter moth caterpillars.  Ecology 51: 565-581.

Class 16, Oct. 31

* Murdoch, W.W.  1994.  Population regulation in theory and practice.  Ecology 75: 271-287.

Class 17, Nov. 2

* McCann, K, A. Hastings and G.R. Huxel.  1998.  Weak trophic interactions and the balance of nature.  Nature 395: 794-798.

* Polis, G.A.  1998.  Stability is woven by complex webs.  Nature 395: 744-745.

* Rooney, N., K. McCann, G. Gellner and J. C. Moore.  2006.  Structural asymmetry and the stability of diverse food webs.  Nature 442: 265-269

* Holt, R. D.  2006.  Asymmetry and stability. Nature 442: 252-253.

Class 18, Nov. 7

*Fine et al. (2006) The growth-defense trade-off and habitat specialization by plants in Amazonian forests. Ecology 87(7): S150-S162

*Kessler et al. (2004) Silencing the jasmonate cascade: induced plant defenses and insect populations. Science 305: 665-668

Optional Reading:

* Berenbaum, M. 1981.  Patterns of furanocoumarin distribution and insect herbivory in the Umbelliferae:  Plant chemistry and community structure.  Ecology 62:1254-1266.

Class 19, Nov. 9

* Andow, D.A.  1991.  Vegetational diversity and arthropod population response.  Annual Review of Entomology  36: 561-586.

Andow, D.A.  1991.  Yield loss to arthropods in vegetationally diverse agroecosystems.  Environmental Entomology 20: 1228-1235.

Optional Reading:

* Andow, D.A. 1990.  Population dynamics of an insect herbivore in simple and diverse habitats. Ecology 71: 1006-1017.

Class 20, Nov. 14

* Karieva, PM 1982.  Exclusion experiments and the competitive release of insects feeding on collards.  Ecology 63:696-704.

Optional Reading:

* Denno, R. F., M. S. McClure and J. R. Ott. 1995.  Interspecific interactions in phytophagous insects: Competition reexamined and resurrected.  Annu. Rev. Entomol. 40: 297-331.

Class 21, Nov. 16

Gilbert, L.E.  1975.  Ecological consequences of a coevolved mutualism between butterflies and plants, pp 210-240.  In L.E. Gilbert and P.H. Raven, eds., Coevolution of animals and plants.  Univ. Texas Press, Austin.

Optional Reading:

* Boucher, D.H., Jones, S., and Keeler, K.H. 1982.  The ecology of mutualism. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 13:315-347.

Class 22, Nov. 21

Kobayashi, S.  1975.  The effect of Drosophila release on the spider population in a paddy field.  Appl. Entomol. Zool.  10: 268-274.

Ito, Y., K. Miyashita and K. Sekiguchi.  1962.  Studies on the predators of the rice crop insect pests, using the insecticidal check method.  Japanese Journal of Ecology 12: 1-11.  (journal also called Nihon Seitai Gakkai)

Optional Reading:

* Settle, WH; Ariawan, H; Astuti, ET; Cahyana, W; Hakim, AL; Hindayana, D; Lestari, AS; Pajarningsih,; Sartanto,.  1996.  Managing tropical rice pests through conservation of generalist natural enemies and alternative prey.  Ecology 77: 1975-1988.

Class 23, Nov. 28

To be deterimined

Class 24, Nov. 30

*Van Nouhuys and Ehrnsten (2004) Wasp behavior leads to uniform parasitism of a host available only a few hours per year. Behavioral Ecology 15: 661-665

* Fatouros et al. (2005) Butterfly anti-aphrodisiac lures parasitic wasps. Nature 433: 704

Class 25, Dec. 5

* Dyer, L.A. and D.K. Letourneau.  1999.  Trophic cascades in a complex terrestrial community.  PNAS 96: 5072-5076.

* Letourneau, D. K. and L. A. Dyer. 1998. Experimental test in lowland tropical forest shows top-down effects through four trophic levels. Ecology 79(5):1678-1687.

Optional Reading:

* Andow, D.A. and S.J. Risch.  1985.  Predation in diversified agroecosystems: relations between a coccinellid predator Coleomegilla maculata and its food.  J. Appl. Ecol. 22: 357-372.

Class 26, Dec. 7

Polis, G.A. and R.D. Holt.  1992.  Intraguild predation: The dynamics of complex trophic interactions.  Trends in Ecology and Evolution 7: 151-154.

Rosenheim, J.A., L.R. Wilhoit and C.A. Armer.  1993.  Influence of intraguild predation among generalist insect predators on the suppression of an herbivore population.  Oecologia 96: 439-449.

Optional Reading:

* Schellhorn, N.A. and D.A. Andow.  1999.  Cannibalism and interspecific predation: Role of oviposition behavior.  Ecol. Appl. 9: 418-428.