Arthropod Diversity and Conservation - new book

EAN (ISBN-13): 9781402052040
ISBN (ISBN-10): 1402052049
Publishing year: 2007
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
528 Pages
Language: eng/Englisch

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ISBN/EAN: 1402052049

ISBN - alternate spelling:
1-4020-5204-9, 978-1-4020-5204-0
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Book author: hawksworth david, green jen
Book title: diversity, conservation

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Author: David L. Hawksworth; Alan T. Bull
Title: Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation; Arthropod Diversity and Conservation
Publisher: Springer; Springer Netherland
525 Pages
Publishing year: 2007-01-25
Dordrecht; NL
Language: English
213,99 € (DE)
220,00 € (AT)
236,00 CHF (CH)
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Arthropod diversity in Lama forest reserve (South Benin), a mosaic of natural, degraded and plantation forests.- Ecosystem disturbances and diversity increase: implications for invertebrate conservation.- Effects of landscape elements on the distribution of the rare bumblebee species Bombus muscorum in an agricultural landscape.- How ant nests increase soil biota richness and abundance: a field experiment.- Host specificity, alpha- and beta-diversity of phytophagous beetles in two tropical forests in Panama.- Vertical and temporal patterns of biodiversity of fruit-feeding butterflies in a tropical forest in Uganda.- Associations between weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidea) and plants, and conservation values in two tussock grasslands, Otago, New Zealand.- Effects of management intensity and season on arboreal ant diversity and abundance in coffee agroecosystems.- Influence of habitat fragmentation on the genetic variability in leaf litter ant populations in tropical rainforests of Sabah, Borneo.- Comparing relative model fit of several species-accumulation functions to local Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea butterfly inventories of Mediterranean habitats.- The habitat requirement of the Genji-firefly Luciola cruciata (Coleoptera : Lampyridae), a representative endemic species of Japanese rural landscapes.- Diversity of Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) in Galicia, Northwest Spain: estimating the completeness of the regional inventory.- Topographic heterogeneity plays a crucial role for grasshopper diversity in a southern African megabiodiversity hotspot.- Landscape effects on the genetic structure of the ground beetle Poecilus versicolor STURM 1824.- The response of ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) to selection cutting in a South Carolina bottomland hardwood forest.- Factors influencing bug diversity (Insecta: Heteroptera) in semi-natural habitats.- Insect colonisation of fruiting bodies of the wood-decaying fungus Fomitopsis pinicola at different distances from an old-growth forest.- Dragonfly assemblages in arid tropical environments: a case study from western Namibia.- Richness, abundance, and complementarity of fruit-feeding butterfly species in relict sacred forests and forest reserves of Ghana.- Ecological impact assessment of the Aznalcóllar mine toxic spill on edaphic coleopteran communities in the Guadiamar River basin (Southern Iberian Peninsula).- Diversity of the scuttle fly (Diptera: Phoridae) communities in the plantations of moist pine forests of the Bia?owie?a Primeval Forest and the Tuchola Forest (Poland).- Spatial distribution of ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) and moths (Lepidoptera) in the Mrtvý luh bog, Šumava Mts (Central Europe): a test of habitat island community.- Surrogate habitats demonstrate the invasion potential of the African pugnacious ant.- Impacts of catastrophic earthquakes on the insect communities in estuarine mangroves, northern Taiwan.- Countryside Stewardship Scheme and butterflies: a study of plant and butterfly species richness.- Habitat specificity and variation of coleopteran assemblages between habitats in a Southern African (Swaziland) agricultural landscape.- Effects of habitat disturbance can be subtle yet significant: biodiversity of hawkmoth-assemblages (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) in Southeast-Asia.- The importance of ants and high-shade management to coffee pollination and fruit weight in Chiapas, Mexico.- Sampling to assess a re-established Appalachian forest in Ohio based on gelechioid moths (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea).- Diversity patterns of Bornean butterfly assemblages.
Draws together a wide range of peer-reviewed primary research papers from biodiversity researchers around the world Provides examples from a wide spectrum of issues representing the current state-of-the art in arthropods Provides examples of recent work, usable as case studies for courses in ecology, restoration, biodiversity, conservation Enables specialist researchers to see primary research papers tackling problems in arthropods