LEADER 04693nam 22006135 450 001 9910155550503321 005 20200706195816.0 024 7 $a10.1007/978-981-10-1518-2 035 $a(CKB)3710000000964860 035 $a(DE-He213)978-981-10-1518-2 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4748034 035 $a(PPN)197135048 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000964860 100 $a20161124d2016 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aArthropod Diversity and Conservation in the Tropics and Sub-tropics /$fedited by Akshay Kumar Chakravarthy, Shakunthala Sridhara 205 $a1st ed. 2016. 210 1$aSingapore :$cSpringer Singapore :$cImprint: Springer,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (XXIV, 435 p. 149 illus., 101 illus. in color.) 311 $a981-10-1517-1 311 $a981-10-1518-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 330 $aArthropods 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. 606 $aInvertebrates 606 $aEntomology 606 $aBiotic communities 606 $aBiotic communities 606 $aSustainable development 606 $aInvertebrates$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/L25058 606 $aEntomology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/L25090 606 $aEcosystems$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/L1904X 606 $aCommunity & Population Ecology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/L19120 606 $aSustainable Development$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/U34000 615 0$aInvertebrates. 615 0$aEntomology. 615 0$aBiotic communities. 615 0$aBiotic communities. 615 0$aSustainable development. 615 14$aInvertebrates. 615 24$aEntomology. 615 24$aEcosystems. 615 24$aCommunity & Population Ecology. 615 24$aSustainable Development. 676 $a592 702 $aChakravarthy$b Akshay Kumar$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 702 $aSridhara$b Shakunthala$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910155550503321 996 $aArthropod Diversity and Conservation in the Tropics and Sub-tropics$92526688 997 $aUNINA