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Cardé, Ring Richard Tomlinson was born on September 18, 1943 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
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Advances in Insect Chemical Ecology
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Chemical Ecology of Insects
(Our objective in compiling a series of chapters on the ch...)
Our objective in compiling a series of chapters on the chemical ecology of insects has been to delineate the major concepts of this discipline. The fine line between presenting a few topics in great detail or many topics in veneer has been carefully drawn, such that the book contains sufficient diversity to cover the field and a few topics in some depth. After the reader has penetrated the crust of what has been learned about chemical ecology of insects, the deficiencies in our understanding of this field should become evident. These deficiencies, to which no chapter topic is immune, indicate the youthful state of chemical ecology and the need for further investigations, especially those with potential for integrating elements that are presently isolated from each other. At the outset of this volume it becomes evident that, although we are beginning to decipher how receptor cells work, virtually nothing is known of how sensory information is coded to become relevant to the insect and to control the behavior of the insect. This problem is exacerbated by the state of our knowledge of how chemicals are distributed in nature, especially in complex habitats. And finally, we have been unable to understand the significance of orientation pathways of insects, in part because of the two previous problems: orientation seems to depend on patterns of distri bution of chemicals, the coding of these patterns by the central nervous system, and the generation of motor output based on the resulting motor commands.
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Ring Richard Tomlinson Cardé
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Bachelor of Science, Tufts U., 1966; Master of Science, Cornell Univercity, 1968; Doctor of Philosophy, Cornell Univercity, 1971.
Career
Postdoctoral fellow, New York State Agriculture Experimental Station Cornell Univercity, Geneva, 1971-1975; assistant professor, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1975-1978; associate professor, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1978-1981; associate professor, department head, U. Massachusetts, Amherst, 1981-1983, 94-; professor, department head, U. Massachusetts, Amherst, 1983-1987; professor, U. Massachusetts, Amherst, 1987-1989; distinguished professor, U. Massachusetts, Amherst, since 1989; department head, U. Massachusetts, Amherst, 1994-1995.
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Chemical Ecology of Insects
(Our objective in compiling a series of chapters on the ch...)
- Advances in Insect Chemical Ecology
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Chemical Ecology of Insects
Membership
Member Entomological Society American (member governing board 1988-1991, Outstanding Contribution to Agriculture 1980).
