Canopy Arthropods - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0412749009 ISBN 13: 9780412749001

Publisher: Springer, 1996

Synopsis

As forests are cut down, altered and fragmented, the communities of organisms associated with them are also affected. Predictions of global species extinction rates based on forest loss range 1% to 10% each decade. Because arthropods comprise the largest component of animal species richness, it is inevitable that many arthropod species will become extinct. Millions of these species are thought to live in the forest canopy.
During the last twenty years recognition of the importance of canopy arthropods to global biodiversity and the crucial roles arthropods play in forests has led to a revolution in the study and understanding of the arthropod community structure in the forest canopy. Recent advances have been greatly aided by the development of improved sampling techniques and new methods of access to the forest canopy.
Canopy Arthropods brings together for the first time a wide range of the most recent studies of arthropods living in forest canopies and comes from a truly international team of contributors.

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Synopsis

There has been a revolution in the study and understanding of the diversity and structure of arthropod communities in the forest canopy. This has been enhanced by the development of the new techniques to access the canopy and to sample arthropods. This volume brings together a range of the most recent studies on canopy arthropods. The book is arranged in five parts. The first part has two introductory chapters reviewing the principal methods used for sampling arthropods from trees, followed by chapters examining the effectiveness of the insecticide fogging method, including length of "drop time", concentration of insecticide and faunal recovery. The second part has chapters reviewing aspects of beetle community structure and species richness at different sites around the world, including North and South America, tropical Asia, New Caledonia, Australia, and, for the first time, Africa. Part three focuses on the diversity and community structure of other arthropod groups, such as ants, acridid Orthoptera and Diptera.

Part four has chapters which examine aspects of the biology of canopy arthropods, including arboreal dung beetle behaviour, bioacoustic monitoring of canopy insect communities, and the spatiotemporal habitat utilization of arboreal Collembola. Finally, part five addresses the impact of disturbance and forest fragmentation on canopy arthropods. In a concluding chapter, we discuss the role that future canopy arthropod studies can play in providing useful information to guide environmental and conservation management decisions.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0412749009
• ISBN 13: 9780412749001
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 584
• Editor: Stork Nigel E., Adis Joachim, Didham Raphael K.