Arthropod Diversity and Conservation
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 inver
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Arthropod Diversity and Conservation
TOPICS IN BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION Volume 1
The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.
Arthropod Diversity and Conservation
Edited by
David L. Hawksworth and Alan T. Bull
Reprinted from Biodiversity and Conservation, volume 15:1 (2006), excluding the paper by R. O’Malley et al., The diversity and distribution of the fruit bat fauna (Mammalia, Chiroptera, Megachiroptera) of Danjugan Island, Cauayan, Negros Occidental, Philippines (with notes on the Microchiroptera). pp. 43–56.
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ISBN-10 ISBN-13 ISBN-10 ISBN-13
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Contents
Arthropod Diversity and Conservation Introduction THIBAULT LACHAT, SERGE ATTIGNON, JULIEN DJEGO, GEORG GOERGEN, PETER NAGEL, BRICE SINSIN and RALF PEVELING / Arthropod diversity in Lama forest reserve (South Benin), a mosaic of natural, degraded and plantation forests RAFAEL DIAS LOYOLA, SOFIA-LUIZA BRITO and RODRIGO LOPES FERREIRA / Ecosystem disturbances and diversity increase: implications for invertebrate conservation TIM DIEKÖTTER, KERSTIN WALTHER-HELLWIG, MANUEL CONRADI, MATTHIAS SUTER and ROBERT FRANKL / Effects of landscape elements on the distribution of the rare bumblebee species Bombus muscorum in an agricultural landscape APRIL M. BOULTON and KEITH D. AMBERMAN / How ant nests increase soil biota richness and abundance: a field experiment FRODE ØDEGAARD / Host specificity, alpha- and beta-diversity of phytophagous beetles in two tropical forests in Panama FREERK MOLLEMAN, ARJAN KOP, PAUL M. BRAKEFIELD, PHILIP J. DE VRIES and BAS J. ZWAAN / Vertical and temporal patterns of biodiversity of fruit-feeding butterflies in a tropical forest in Uganda T.J. MURRAY, K.J.M. DICKINSON and B.I.P. BARRATT / Associations between weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidea) and plants, and conservation values in two tussock grasslands, Otago, New Zealand STACY M. PHILPOTT, IVETTE PERFECTO and JOHN VANDERMEER / Effects of management intensity and season on arboreal ant diversity and abundance in coffee agroecosystems TOBIAS O. BICKEL, CARSTEN A. BRÜHL, JÜRGEN R. GADAU, BERT HÖLLDOBLER and K. EDUARD LINSENMAIR / Influence of habitat fragmentation on the genetic variability in leaf litter ant populations in tropical rainforests of S
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