Insects and Wildlife: Arthropods and their relationships with wild vertebrate animals

Description:

A comprehensive overview of the interrelationships of insects and wildlife. It serves as an introduction to insects and other arthropods for wildlife management and other vertebrate biology students, and emphasizes the importance of insects to wild vertebrate animals. Emphasizes how insects exert important influences on wildlife habitat suitability and wildlife population sustainability, including their direct and indirect effects on wildlife health. Insects as food items for vertebrates; role of arthropods as determinants of ecosystem health and productivity; disease transmission by arthropods; overview of representative disease-causing agents transmitted by arthropods; arthropods as pests and parasites of vertebrates; hazards to wildlife associated with using pesticides; insect management using techniques other than pesticides; importance of insect conservation