Overview
- Editors:
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W. Foissner
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Inst. Zoologie, Universität Salzburg, Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Salzburg, Austria
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David L. Hawksworth
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Dept. Biologia Vegetal II, Universidad Complutense, Fac. Farmacia, Ciudad Universitaria, Madrid, Spain
- 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
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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- Slava Epstein, Purificación López-García
Pages 27-42
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- Steven L. Stephenson, Martin Schnittler, Yuri K. Novozhilov
Pages 51-67
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- Hendrik Segers, Willem H. De Smet
Pages 69-82
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- Jan Pawlowski, Maria Holzmann
Pages 83-94
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- Humphrey Graham Smith, Anatoly Bobrov, Enrique Lara
Pages 95-109
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- Wilhelm Foissner, Anne Chao, Laura A. Katz
Pages 111-129
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- Ellen M. Simon, David L. Nanney, F. Paul Doerder
Pages 131-146
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- Peter F. M. Coesel, Lothar Krienitz
Pages 147-158
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- Pieter Vanormelingen, Elie Verleyen, Wim Vyverman
Pages 159-171
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- F. J. R. Taylor, Mona Hoppenrath, Juan F. Saldarriaga
Pages 173-184
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- F. P. D. Cotterill, Khaled Al-Rasheid, Wilhelm Foissner
Pages 193-209
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About this book
Conservation and biodiversity of protists The conservation of biodiversity is not just an issue of plants and vertebrates. It is the scarcely visible invertebrates and myriads of other microscopic organisms that are crucial to the maintenance of ecological processes on which all larger organisms and the composition of the atmosphere ultimately depend. Biodiversity and Conservation endeavours to take an holistic view of biodiversity, and when the opportunity arises to issue collections of papers dealing with too-often neglected groups of organisms. The protists, essentially eukaryotes that cannot be classi?ed in the kingdoms of animals, fungi, or plants, include some of the lea- known groups of organisms on earth. They are generally treated as a separate kingdom, commonly named Protista (or Protoctista) in textbooks, but in reality they are a mixture of organisms with disparate a?nities. Some authors have hypothesized that the numbers of protists are not especially large, and that many have extraordinarily wide distributions. However, the p- ture that unfolds from the latest studies discussed in this issue is di?erent. There are many species with wide ranges, and proportionately more cosmopolitan species than in macroorganism groups, as a result of their long evolutionary histories, but there are also de?nite patterns and geographical restrictions to be found. Further, some protists are linked to host organisms as mutualists or parasites and necessarily con?ned to the distributions of their hosts.
Editors and Affiliations
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Inst. Zoologie, Universität Salzburg, Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Salzburg, Austria
W. Foissner
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Dept. Biologia Vegetal II, Universidad Complutense, Fac. Farmacia, Ciudad Universitaria, Madrid, Spain
David L. Hawksworth
