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Arthropod diversity and conservation in the Tropics and Subtropics

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Arthropod diversity and conservation in the Tropics and Subtropics/ edited by Akshay Kumar Chakravarthy, Shakunthala Sridhara.
other author:	Chakravarthy, Akshay Kumar.
Published:	Singapore :Springer Singapore : : 2016.,
Description:	xxiv, 435 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Arthropoda - Conservation - Tropics. -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1518-2
ISBN:	9789811015182

Arthropod diversity and conservation in the Tropics and Subtropics
Arthropod diversity and conservation in the Tropics and Subtropics[electronic resource] /edited by Akshay Kumar Chakravarthy, Shakunthala Sridhara. - Singapore :Springer Singapore :2016. - xxiv, 435 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

Arthropods are invertebrates that constitute over 90% of the animal kingdom, and their bio-ecology is closely linked with global functioning and survival. Arthropods play an important role in maintaining the health of ecosystems, provide livelihoods and nutrition to human communities, and are important indicators of environmental change. Yet the population trends of several arthropods species show them to be in decline. Arthropods constitute a dominant group with 1.2 million species influencing earth's biodiversity. Among arthropods, insects are predominant, with ca. 1 million species and having evolved some 350 million years ago. Arthropods are closely associated with living and non-living entities alike, making the ecosystem services they provide crucially important. In order to be effective, plans for the conservation of arthropods and ecosystems should include a mixture of strategies like protecting key habitats and genomic studies to formulate relevant policies for in situ and ex situ conservation. This two-volume book focuses on capturing the essentials of arthropod inventories, biology, and conservation. Further, it seeks to identify the mechanisms by which arthropod populations can be sustained in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, and by means of which certain problematic species be managed without producing harmful environmental side-effects. This edited compilation includes chapters contributed by over 80 biologists on a wide range of topics embracing the diversity, distribution, utility and conservation of arthropods and select groups of insect taxa. More importantly, it describes in detail the mechanisms of sustaining arthropod ecosystems, services and populations. It addresses the contribution of modern biological tools such as molecular and genetic techniques regulating gene expression, as well as conventional, indigenous practices in arthropod conservation. The contributors reiterate the importance of documenting and understanding the biology of arthropods from a holistic perspective before addressing conservation issues at large. This book offers a valuable resource for all zoologists, entomologists, ecologists, conservation biologists, policy makers, teachers and students interested in the conservation of biological resources.

ISBN: 9789811015182

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-981-10-1518-2doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

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Arthropoda
--Conservation--Tropics.

LC Class. No.: QL434

Dewey Class. No.: 595

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