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  title info:
    title: Arthropod Diversity and Conservation in the Tropics and Sub-tropics
  name:
    name part: Chakravarthy, Akshay Kumar.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Sridhara, Shakunthala.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: si
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXIV, 435 p. 149 illus., 101 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: 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 art…
  note: edited by Akshay Kumar Chakravarthy, Shakunthala Sridhara.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Ecosystems
  subject:
    topic: Community ecology, Biotic
  subject:
    topic: Invertebrates
  subject:
    topic: Entomology
  subject:
    topic: Sustainable development
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Invertebrates
  subject:
    topic: Entomology
  subject:
    topic: Ecosystems
  subject:
    topic: Community & Population Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Sustainable Development
  classification: QL360-599.82
  classification: 592
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9789811015182
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1518-2
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    record creation date: 161124
    record change date: 20161124103656.0
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