Insect abundance; [electronic resource] / edited on behalf of the Society by T.R.E. Southwood.. — Oxford, Edinburgh, : published for the Royal Entomological Society by Blackwell Scientific,, 1968.. — viii, 160 p. : illus. 26 cm. - Symposia of the Royal Entomological Society of London ; no. 4.
Includes bibliographical references.
The abundance of insects : introduction / O.W. Richards and T.R.E. Southwood -- Intra-specific competition and dispersal : as exemplified by a Psyllid and its anthocorid predator / J.P. Dempster -- Intra-specific mechanisms with special reference to aphid populations / M.J. Way -- Some recent changes in the approach to studies of climatic effects on insect populations / W.R. Henson -- The tactics of a predator / C.S. Holling -- Some parameters in the role of enemies in the natural control of insect abundance / C.B. Huffaker ... [et al.] -- A comparison of factors affecting different insect species on the same host plant / N. Waloff -- The cyclic population dynamics of the grey larch tortix, Zeiraphera griseana Hübner (= Semasia diniana Guenée) (Lepidoptera : Tortricidae) / W. Baltensweiler -- A seventeen-year study of the abundance of the pine looper, Bupalus piniarius L. (Lepidoptera : Geometridae) / H. Klomp -- The control of populations through limitation of habitat distribution as exemplified by tsetse flies / J. Ford -- Determinants of abundance in a population of the Queensland fruit fly / A. Bateman -- Population models for the winter moth / G.C. Varley and G.R. Gradwell -- Insect abundance : prospect / Frank Wilson.