Edited Priyadarsanan Devy Subramanian Aravind (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Contents: Preface. Section I: Ecology and Conservation: 1. Biogeographic origins and habitat use of the butterflies of the Western Ghats/Krushnamegh Kunte. 2. Regional scale participatory monitoring of butterflies: A case study from the Western Ghats/K.A. Subramanian, K. Geetha Nayak, Madhav Gadgil, KP Achar, Acharya, K.N. Deviprasad etc. 3. Community analysis of the butterflies of Anaikatty Hills, the Western Ghats, India/R. Eswaran and P. Pramod. 4. Patterns of temporal variations observed in butterfly communities at puddle sites/Ravi Ramalingam. 5. Ants of the Western Ghats: What we know and know not/Parthiba Basu. 6. Mayflies (Ephemeroptera) of the Western Ghats: Biogeographic patterns and diversity profiles/K.G. Sivaramakrishnan and K.A. Subramanian. 7. Mygalomorph spiders: Status review and conservation priorities in the Western Ghats/Manju Siliwal and Sanjay Molur. 8. Population ecology and spatial distribution of gall mite Eriophyes sp. (Eriophyidae: Acari) on Canthium parviflorum (Rubiaceae)/Uma Ramachandran. 9. Diversity importance and conservation of pill millipedes (Sphaerotheriida, Diplopoda) of the Western Ghats/K.R. Sridhar. 10. Ecology, diversity and distribution of centipedes (Scoloperndromorpha: Chilopoda) in Northern Western Ghats/Jahnavi Joshi and Neelesh Dahanukar. 11. Perturbation in the patterns of land snail diversity due to anthropogenic disturbance in wet evergreen forests of the Western Ghats/K.P. Rajashekhar and N.A. Aravind. 12. Employing butterflies as cultural keystone species a window of opportunity towards enriching urban biodiversity in Bangalore/M. Soubadra Devy and Savitha Swamy. 13. Ant diversity responses to changing land-use forms in the central Western Ghats/Priyadarsanan Dharma Rajan and Aniruddha P. Marathe. Section II: Taxonomy and Diversity: 14. Forest insect diversity of the Western Ghats: An appraisal with special reference to the Kerala part/George Mathew and R.S.M. Shamsudeen. 15. The faunal diversity of chalcid wasps of the Western Ghats/T.C. Narendran and Mercy Ignatius. 16. Platygastroidea (Hymenoptera of the Western Ghats/K. Rajmohana. 17. The true flies (Diptera) of the Western Ghats: knowledge status and richness estimates/Kumar Ghorpade. 18. Gerromorpha and Nepomorpha (Hemiptera) diversity in the Western Ghats/G. Thirumalai and S. Krishnan. 19. Species diversity of whiteflies (Aleyrodidae: Hemiptera) in the Western Ghats/R. Sundararaj and A.K. Dubey. 20. Diversity of spiders (Araneae) in the Western Ghats an overview/P.A. Sebastian, A.V. Sudhikumar, M.J. Mathew and E. Sunish. 21. Opiliones and opilioacarid diversity in the Western Ghats/N.P.I. Das. 22. Freshwater copepods of Peninsular India/Shaju Thomas and Sasikala K. Joseph. Subject Index. The diversity and behavioural repertoire of invertebrates has always been inspiring for amateur naturalists and professional scientists. All over the world, this fascination for invertebrates has been encouraging studies on diverse invertebrates, helping us understand many fundamental biological processes, including ecology and evolution. Unfortunately, this is also the period of unprecedented loss of invertebrate diversity due to agrochemicals and deforestation. Globally, there is an increasing concern over the loss of invertebrate diversity. This loss of invertebrate populations across ecosystems has serious impact on ecosystem health and livelihood of dependent communities. Like many other tropical countries, very little is known about the diversity and distribution of invertebrates from India. This poor understanding of our invertebrate diversity is amply reflected in our national and regional conservation policies and goals, which is essentially formulated for large and charismatic vertebrates. This edited volume provides an overview of ongoing studies on the diversity, ecology, evolution, behaviour and conservation of invertebrates in the Western Ghats (India).