▪ Abstract Host plant quality is a key determinant of the fecundity of herbivorous insects.
Components of host plant quality (such as carbon, nitrogen, and defensive metabolites) …

Maternal effects can play an important role in a diversity of ecological and evolutionary
processes such as population dynamics, phenotypic plasticity, niche construction, life-history …

This book provides an introduction to population dynamics, exploring rules that govern
change in any dynamic system and applying these general principles to populations of living …

The sublethal effects of high predation risk on both prey behavior and physiology may have
long‐term consequences for prey population dynamics. We tested the hypothesis that …

▪ Abstract Inherited environmental effects are those components of the phenotype that are
derived from either parent, apart from nuclear genes. Inherited environmental effects arise …

Richard S. Ostfeld, Clive G. Jones, and Jerry O. Wolff popular characterization of ecological
systems is that everything is connected to ev-erything else. Although in some metaphysical …

M any forest Lepidoptera exhibit re-markable variations in abundance, often with almost
clockwork regularity. Perhaps the most remarkable, and certainly the best documented, is …

The survival and quality of progeny can be strongly influenced by nongenetic effects derived
from the physiological condition of the mother during gametogenesis. The influence of …

Examines the effects of elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide on insect-plant interactions.
Source of carbon for photosynthesis; Ability of insects to compensate for carbon dioxide …

Population cycles are one of nature's great mysteries. For almost a hundred years,
innumerable studies have probed the causes of cyclic dynamics in snowshoe hares, voles …