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CHAPTER 1 History and Definitions. Basic Concepts. Organisation of the Biological world. Plato’s Natural Balance vs Ecological Dynamics as the modern view
CHAPTER 2 Abiotic Factors
CHAPTER 3 Abundance and Diversity of Insect Population and Various Diversity Indices
CHAPTER 4 Basic Principles of Abiotic Factors and their Generalised Action on Insects. Implications for Abundance and Distribution of Organisms Including Insects- Law of the Minimum, Law of Tolerance, and Biocoenosis, Systems Approach to Ecology
CHAPTER 5 Basic Concepts of Abundance Population Growth Basic Models –Exponential Vs Logistic Models. Discrete Vs Continuous Growth Models
CHAPTER 6 Concepts of Carrying capacity, Environmental Resistance and Optimal Yield
CHAPTER 7 Life Tables
CHAPTER 8 Population Dynamics - Factors Affecting Abundance, Environmental Factors, Dispersal, Migration, Seasonality in Insects, Classification and Mechanism in Seasonality
CHAPTER 9 Biotic Factors- Food as a Limiting Factor for Distribution and Abundance Nutritional Ecology
CHAPTER 10 Food Chains, Food Webs, and Ecological Succession
CHAPTER 11 Interspecific Interaction
CHAPTER 12  Competition- Lotka-Volterra Model, Concept of Niche Ecological Homologues, Competitive Exclusion. Prey-predator Interactions- Basic Model- Lotka-Volterra Model, Volterra’s Principle. Functional and Numerical Response
CHAPTER 13 Defense Mechanisms Against Predators and Parasitoids
CHAPTER 14 Community Ecology- Concept of Guild, Organisation of Communities- Hutchinson Ratio, May’s d/w, Relation Between the Two and Their Association with Dyar’s Law and Przibram’s Law
CHAPTER 15 Relative Distribution of Organisms, Concept of Diversity-The Wallacian View. Assessment of Diversity. Diversity-Stability Debate, Relevance to Pest Management
CHAPTER 16 Pest Management as Applied Ecology. Impact of Changing Climate on Insect Communities