02754nam a22004335i 4500 978-1-61091-520-5 DE-He213 20210617041939.0 cr nn 008mamaa 150713s2014 xxu| s |||| 0|eng d 9781610915205 978-1-61091-520-5 10.5822/978-1-61091-520-5 doi GE1-350 RN bicssc SCI026000 bisacsh RN thema 333.7 23 Dyer, Andy. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Chasing the Red Queen [electronic resource] : The Evolutionary Race Between Agricultural Pests and Poisons / by Andy Dyer. 1st ed. 2014. Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2014. XIV, 223 p. 24 illus. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda In the race to feed the world’s seven billion people, we are at a standstill. Over the past century, we have developed increasingly potent and sophisticated pesticides, yet in 2014, the average percentage of U.S. crops lost to agricultural pests was no less than in 1944. To use a metaphor the field of evolutionary biology borrowed from Alice in Wonderland, farmers must run ever faster to stay in the same place—i.e., produce the same yields. With Chasing the Red Queen, Andy Dyer offers the first book to apply the Red Queen Hypothesis to agriculture. Dyer examines one of the world’s most pressing problems as a biological case study. He presents key concepts, from Darwin’s principles of natural selection to genetic variation and adaptive phenotypes. Understanding the fundamentals of ecology and biology is the first step to “playing the Red Queen,” and escaping her unwinnable race. The book’s novel frame will help students, researchers, and policy-makers alike apply that knowledge to the critical task of achieving food security. Environment. Life sciences. Environment, general. https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/U00009 Life Sciences, general. https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/L00004 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9781597265362 https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-520-5 ZDB-2-EES ZDB-2-SXEE Earth and Environmental Science (SpringerNature-11646) Earth and Environmental Science (R0) (SpringerNature-43711)