Overview
- 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
Part of the book series: Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation (TOBC, volume 1)
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Table of contents (31 chapters)
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About this book
Despite their enormous bulk and complexity of architecture, plants make up only around a quarter of a million of the 8 million or so species on Earth. The major components of biodiversity, instead, are the smaller, largely unseen, silent majority of invertebrates – most of which are arthropods. Vertebrates, a mere blip on the biotic horizon, are elevated in importance in the bigger scheme of things only by the human psyche.
This collection of more than 30 peer-reviewed papers focuses on the diversity and conservation of arthropods, whose species inhabit virtually every recess and plane – and feature somewhere in virtually every food web – on the planet. Highlighting issues ranging from large-scale disturbance to local management, and from spatial heterogeneity to temporal patterns, these papers reflect some of the most exciting new research taking place today – and in some of the most biodiverse corners of the planet.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Arthropod Diversity and Conservation
Editors: David L. Hawksworth, Alan T. Bull
Series Title: Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5204-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5203-3Published: 06 September 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7309-9Published: 18 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5204-0Published: 25 January 2007
Series ISSN: 1875-1288
Series E-ISSN: 1875-1296
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 525
Additional Information: Reprinted from Biodiversity and Conservation, volume 15:1 (2006)
Topics: Invertebrates, Biodiversity, Ecosystems, Freshwater & Marine Ecology, Terrestial Ecology