Arthropod Diversity and Conservation

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hawksworth, David L. (Editor), Bull, Alan T. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Series: Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation ; 1
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Biodiversity.; Ecosystems.; Aquatic ecology.; Ecology.; Invertebrates.; Life Sciences.; Freshwater & Marine Ecology.; Terrestial Ecology.

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. Vert...