Arthropod Diversity and Conservation (Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation)

Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 10
Arthropod diversity in Lama forest reserve (South Benin), a mosaic of natural, degraded and plantation forests......Page 12
Ecosystem disturbances and diversity increase: implications for invertebrate conservation......Page 33
Effects of landscape elements on the distribution of the rare bumblebee species Bombus muscorum in an agricultural landscape......Page 51
How ant nests increase soil biota richness and abundance: a field experiment......Page 63
Host specificity, alpha- and beta-diversity of phytophagous beetles in two tropical forests in Panama......Page 77
Vertical and temporal patterns of biodiversity of fruit-feeding butterflies in a tropical forest in Uganda......Page 100
Associations between weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidea) and plants, and conservation values in two tussock grasslands, Otago, New Zealand......Page 115
Effects of management intensity and season on arboreal ant diversity and abundance in coffee agroecosystems......Page 130
Influence of habitat fragmentation on the genetic variability in leaf litter ant populations in tropical rainforests of Sabah, Borneo......Page 147
Comparing relative model fit of several species-accumulation functions to local Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea butterfly inventories of Mediterranean habitats......Page 166
The habitat requirement of the Genji-firefly Luciola cruciata (Coleoptera : Lampyridae), a representative endemic species of Japanese rural landscapes......Page 180
Diversity of Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) in Galicia, Northwest Spain: estimating the completeness of the regional inventory......Page 193
Topographic heterogeneity plays a crucial role for grasshopper diversity in a southern African megabiodiversity hotspot......Page 219
Landscape effects on the genetic structure of the ground beetle Poecilus versicolor STURM 1824......Page 233
The response of ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) to selection cutting in a South Carolina bottomland hardwood forest......Page 248
Factors influencing bug diversity (Insecta: Heteroptera) in semi-natural habitats......Page 262
Insect colonisation of fruiting bodies of the wood-decaying fungus Fomitopsis pinicola at different distances from an old-growth forest......Page 282
Dragonfly assemblages in arid tropical environments: a case study from western Namibia......Page 297
Richness, abundance, and complementarity of fruit-feeding butterfly species in relict sacred forests and forest reserves of Ghana......Page 319
Ecological impact assessment of the Aznalcóllar mine toxic spill on edaphic coleopteran communities in the Guadiamar River basin (Southern Iberian Peninsula)......Page 346
Diversity of the scuttle fly (Diptera: Phoridae) communities in the plantations of moist pine forests of the Bialowieza Primeval Forest and the Tuchola Forest (Poland)......Page 369
Spatial distribution of ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) and moths (Lepidoptera) in the Mrtvý luh bog, Šumava Mts (Central Europe): a test of habitat island community......Page 378
Surrogate habitats demonstrate the invasion potential of the African pugnacious ant......Page 393
Impacts of catastrophic earthquakes on the insect communities in estuarine mangroves, northern Taiwan......Page 411
Countryside Stewardship Scheme and butterflies: a study of plant and butterfly species richness......Page 424
Habitat specificity and variation of coleopteran assemblages between habitats in a Southern African (Swaziland) agricultural landscape......Page 434
Effects of habitat disturbance can be subtle yet significant: biodiversity of hawkmoth-assemblages (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) in Southeast-Asia......Page 445
The importance of ants and high-shade management to coffee pollination and fruit weight in Chiapas, Mexico......Page 467
Sampling to assess a re-established Appalachian forest in Ohio based on gelechioid moths (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea)......Page 482
Diversity patterns of Bornean butterfly assemblages......Page 496