James R. Carey is Professor of Entomology at the University of California, Davis and member of the Graduate Group in Demography at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Carey is recognized nationally and internationally as a leading expert in arthropod demography and has authored nearly 50 publications in this area including papers in Science, Theoretical Population Biology, Occologia, Journal of Animal Ecology and numerous entomologyjournals. He is Principle Investigator of a 4-year study funded by the National Institute of Aging to gather and analyze data for the largest life table ever constructed for a non-human organism.

• 1. Introduction ; 1.1 Formalization ; 1.2 Elementary Characteristics of Populations ; 2. Life Tables ; 2.1 General Concepts ; 2.2 The Single Decrement Life Tables ; 2.3 The Abridged Life Table ; 2.4 The Multiple Decrement Life Table ; 2.5 Selected Properties of Model Life Tables ; 3. Reproduction ; 3.1 General Background ; 3.2 Per Capita Reproductive Rates ; 3.3 Reproductive Heterogeneity ; 3.4 Generalizations ; 4. Population I. Basic Concepts and Models ; 4.1 Background ; 4.2 The Stable Population Model ; 4.3 Population Projection ; 4.4 Fundamental Properties of Populations ; 5. Population II. Extensions of Stable Theory ; 5.1 Two-Sex Models ; 5.2 Stochastic Demography ; 5.3 Multiregional Demography ; 5.4 Demographic Theory of Social Insects: The Honeybee ; 5.5 The Unity of Demographic Population Models ; 6. Demographic Applications ; 6.1 Estimation ; 6.2 Curve Fitting ; 6.3 Mass Rearing: Basic Harvesting Concepts ; 6.4 Parasitoid Mass Rearing ; 6.5 Pros and Cons of Demographic Modeling

'there is much of interest in this book to insect ecologists ... an interesting book that should be studied by anyone involved in the experimental study of insect populations'H.C.J. Godfray, TREE vol. 9, no. 8 August 1994