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Alois Honek has taught insect ecology since 1972, and since 1972 has been Senior Research Scientist, Crop Research Institute,Prague-Ruzyne, specializing in invertebrate and plant ecology with many research studies on Coccinellidae. He has also had periods of research in Russia and France.
After a period of research at Imperial College, London, Helmut van Emden was appointed to the Department of Horticulture at Reading University where he was appointed Professor in 1976 and Head of the Department from 1986-1999. He is currently Emeritus Professor in the School of Biological Sciences. His research has focused on aphids, particularly host plant resistance and biological control. He has conducted several research projects in the tropics and has held visiting appointments at the Universities of California and Queensland. He received the Karl Escherisch Medal of the German General and Applied Entomological Society in 1993.
Detailed contents, ix
Contributors, xvii
Preface, xviii
Introduction, xix
Taxonomic glossary, xx
1. PHYLOGENY AND CLASSIFICATION, 1
Oldrich Nedve?d and Ivo Kovár?
2. GENETIC STUDIES, 13
John J. Sloggett and Alois Hone?k
3. LIFE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT, 54
Oldrich Nedve?d and Alois Hone?k
4. DISTRIBUTION AND HABITATS, 110
Alois Hone?k
5. FOOD RELATIONSHIPS, 141
Ivo Hodek and Edward W. Evans
6. DIAPAUSE/DORMANCY, 275
Ivo Hodek
7. INTRAGUILD INTERACTIONS, 343
Éric Lucas
8. NATURAL ENEMIES OF LADYBIRD BEETLES, 375
Piotr Ceryngier, Helen E. Roy and Remy L. Poland
9. COCCINELLIDS AND SEMIOCHEMICALS, 444
Jan Pettersson
10. QUANTIFYING THE IMPACT OF COCCINELLIDS ON THEIR PREY, 465
J. P. Michaud and James D. Harwood
11. COCCINELLIDS IN BIOLOGICAL CONTROL, 488
J. P. Michaud
12. RECENT PROGRESS AND POSSIBLE FUTURE TRENDS IN THE STUDY OF COCCINELLIDAE, 520
Helmut F. van Emden and Ivo Hodek
Appendix: List of Genera in Tribes and Subfamilies, 526
Oldrich Nedve?d and Ivo Kovár?
Subject index, 532
Colour plate pages fall between pp. 250 and pp. 251
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