1. The Faunistic Richness of Insects in the Tropics: A Brief Overview.- 2. Individual and Population Responses to Environments.- 2.1. Ecological Response.- 2.
2. Natural Selection.- 2.3. Some Properties of Populations.- 2.4. Ecological Diversity and the Tropics.
- 2.5. Some Mechanisms Underlying Tropical Insect Density.- 2.6. Strategies of Response to the Environment.- 2.7.
Natural Selection and Properties of Populations.- 2.8. Environmental Predictability and Response Patterns.- 3. Machinery of Environmental Response Mechanisms in Insects: Key to Evolutionary and Ecological Diversification.- 3.1.
Notes on Insect Diversity.- 3.2. Comments on Insect Physiology.- 3.3. Integration of the Insect Phenotype by Hormonal Systems: A Brief Review.- 3.
4. Diapause and Migration in Insect Populations: Escape in Time and Space.- 3.5. Temperature, Photoperiod, and Other Factors Related to Insect Activity: Further Comments.- 3.6. Notes on Mating and Communication in Insects.
- 3.7. Rhythmicity in Tropical Insects.- 3.8. Sociality and Defense in Social Insects.- 3.9.
Density-Related Behavior in Insects.- 3.10. Notes on the Physiology of Feeding in Insects.- 4. Ecological Aspects of Plant Defenses against Insects.- 4.1.
Plant Defenses and Coevolution: An Overview.- 4.2. Evolution of Unpalatability and Implications for Food Chains.- 4.3. Notes on Defoliation in the Tropics.- 4.
4. Notes on Seed Prédation in Tropical Habitats.- 4.5. Notes on Plant-Ant Interactions in the Tropics.- 5. Distribution Patterns of Insects in Tropical Habitats.- 5.
1. The Concept of Local Adaptation.- 5.2. Examples of Habitat Differentiation in the Tropics.- 5.3. Insect Communities in Tropical Habitats.
- 5.4. Plant Resources and Habitat Selection in Tropical Insects.- 5.5. Disturbed and Undisturbed Habitats: Some General Effects.- 6. Population Responses to the Environment in Tropical Insects.
- 6.1. Adaptation to Habitats.- 6.2. Demography and Fitness in Populations: Implications for Tropical Insects.- 6.3.
Further Notes on Population Regulation.- 6.4. Some Examples of Census Histories in Tropical Insects.- 6.5. Population Responses to Environmental Heterogeneity in Tropical Insects.- 6.
6. Competition as a Selective Force in Population Responses.- 6.7. Spatial Environmental Heterogeneity and Demes in the Tropics.- 7. Effects of Seasonality on Insect Populations in the Tropics.- 7.
1. Temperate Zone and Tropical Seasonality.- 7.2. Some Regional Patterns of Seasonality in the Tropics.- 7.3. Some Seasonal Distributions of Tropical Insects.
- 7.4. Molding of Ecological Traits in Tropical Insects by the Dry Season.- 8. Dynamics of Organization of Insect Commmiities in Tropical Ecosystems.- 8.1. Notes on Tropical Ecosystems.
- 8.2. Pattems of Organization in Tropical Forests: Some Comments.- 8.3. Notes on the Dynamics of Tropical Insect Communities.- 8.4.
Some Ecological Factors Generating Patchy Distributions of Insects in Tropical Habitats.- 9. Insect Species in Agricultural Habitats in the Tropics.- 9.1. Plant-Insect Interactions and Tropical Agricultural Habitats: Some Comments.- 9.2.
Insect Pollination in an Agricultural Habitat in the Tropics: The Case of Cacao.- 9.3. Grazing and Related Activities by Insects in Agricultural Habitats in the Tropics.- 9.4. Tropical Insect Pest Populations.- 10.
Biogeographical and Regional Evolutionary-Ecological Effects on the Maintenance of Tropical Insect Faunas: A Brief Perspective.- 10.1. Historical Events and Ecological Processes.- 10.2. Altitudinal and Other Macrogradients in Tropical Regions.- 10.
3. Notes on Altitudinal Gradients in the Tropics.- 10.4 Biogeographical Pattems of the Origins of Tropical Insect Faunas.- 10.5. Some Mechanisms of Ecological and Evolutionary Differentiation.- 10.
6. Some Examples of Differential Adaptation to Tropical Lowland and Montane Areas by Insects.- References.