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 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.
| ISBN: | 9781402052033 |
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 525 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Herausgeber: | Bull, Alan T. Hawksworth, David L. |
| Verlag: | Springer Netherland |
| Veröffentlicht: | 06.09.2006 |
| Schlagworte: | Biodiversity Fauna Hotspot Mangrove Namib Rainforest Species richness agroecosystems ecosystem ecosystems |