Описание: 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 arthropods from a holistic perspective before addressing conservation issues at large. This book offers a valuable resource for all zoologists, entomologists, ecologists, conservation biologists, policy makers, teachers and students interested in the conservation of biological resources.
Автор: Hunter Wayne Название: Genome Mapping and Genomics in Arthropods ISBN: 3540738320 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783540738329 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 33401.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Offers an overview of our knowledge about the innate immune system of plants, animals and humans. This book covers the innate immune mechanisms and responses of so diverse organisms such as plants, Cnidaria, Drosophila, urochordates and zebrafish. Mapping of animal genomes has generated huge databases and several concepts and strategies, which are useful to elucidate origin, evolution and phylogeny. This series provides comprehensive reviews on genomic research on a variety of selected animal systems, contributed by leading scientists from around the world.
Автор: George P. Stamou Название: Arthropods of Mediterranean-Type Ecosystems ISBN: 3642797547 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783642797545 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 18167.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: After an introduction to the structure and function of Mediterranean-type ecosystems, ecophysiological adaptations to water stress and varying temperature are considered. Further, activity patterns and life cycle tactics are discussed in relation to the peculiarity of Mediterranean environments.
Автор: Ann Hajek; Travis Glare; Maureen O`Callaghan Название: Use of Microbes for Control and Eradication of Invasive Arthropods ISBN: 9048179106 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789048179107 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 32004.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This is a diverse presentation about the use of arthropod-specific pathogens for control and eradication of invasive arthropod species. Basic concepts supporting use of pathogens for microbial control are covered as well as societal and environmental concerns.
Автор: Alfredo V. Peretti; Anita Aisenberg Название: Cryptic Female Choice in Arthropods ISBN: 3319178938 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319178936 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 27950.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This timely book revisits cryptic female choice in arthropods, gathering detailed contributions from around the world to address key behavioral, ecological and evolutionary questions. The reader will find a critical summary of major breakthroughs in taxon-oriented chapters that offer many new perspectives and cases to explore and in many cases unpublished data. Many groups of arthropods such as spiders, harvestmen, flies, moths, crickets, earwigs, beetles, eusocial insects, shrimp and crabs are discussed. Sexual selection is currently the focus of numerous and controversial theoretical and experimental studies. Selection in mating and post-mating patterns can be shaped by several different mechanisms, including sperm competition, extreme sexual conflict and cryptic female choice. Discrimination among males during or after copulation is called cryptic female choice because it occurs after intromission, the event that was formerly used as the definitive criterion of male reproductive success and is therefore usually difficult to detect and confirm. Because it sequentially follows intra- and intersexual interactions that occur before copulation, cryptic female choice has the power to alter or negate precopulatory sexual selection. However, though female roles in biasing male paternity after copulation have been proposed for a number of species distributed in many animal groups, cryptic female choice continues to be often underestimated. Furthermore, in recent years the concept of sexual conflict has been frequently misused, linking sexual selection by female choice irrevocably and exclusively with sexually antagonistic co-evolution, without exploring other alternatives. The book offers an essential source of information on how two fields, selective cooperation and individual sex interests, work together in the context of cryptic female choice in nature, using arthropods as model organisms. It is bound to spark valuable discussions among scientists working in evolutionary biology across the world, motivating new generations to unveil the astonishing secrets of sexual biology throughout the animal kingdom.
Автор: Alfredo V. Peretti; Anita Aisenberg Название: Cryptic Female Choice in Arthropods ISBN: 3319348590 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319348599 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 20896.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Cryptic Female Choice and Other Types of Post-Copulatory Sexual Selection.- Potential for CFC in Black Widows (Genus Latrodectus): Mechanisms and Social Context.- Cryptic Female Choice Within the Genus Argiope: A Comparative Approach.- Post-Copulatory Sexual Selection in Two Tropical Orb-Weaving Leucauge Spiders.- Copulatory and Post-Copulatory Sexual Selection in Haplogyne Spiders, With Emphasis on Pholcidae and Oonopidae.- Cryptic Female Choice and Nuptial Prey Gifts an a Spider Model.- Male and Female Mate Choice in Harvestmen: General Patterns and Inferences on the Underlying Processes.- Cryptic Female Choice in Crustaceans.- Female Choice in Damselflies and Dragonflies.- What is Indirect Cryptic Female Choice? Theoretical Considerations and an Example from a Promiscuous Earwig.- Cryptic Female Choice in Crickets and Relatives (Orthoptera: Ensifera).- Sexual Selection Within the Female Genitalia in Lepidoptera.- Who's Zooming Who? Seminal Fluids and Cryptic Female Choice in Diptera.- An Integrative View of Postcopulatory Sexual Selection in a Soldier Fly: Interplay Between Cryptic Mate Choice and Sperm Competition.- Species-Specific Behavioral Differences in Tsetse Fly Genital Morphology and Probable Cryptic Female Choice.- Evaluating Cryptic Female Choice in Highly Promiscuous Tribolium Beetles.- Female Choice in Social Insects.- Mating is a Give-And-Take of Influence and Communication Between the Sexes.
Автор: Fred Punzo Название: Desert Arthropods: Life History Variations ISBN: 3642085326 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783642085321 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 23508.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: John L. Cloudsley-Thompson Название: Ecophysiology of Desert Arthropods and Reptiles ISBN: 3642753396 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783642753398 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 18167.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Ecophysiology of Desert Arthropods and Reptiles starts with a new classification of the world`s deserts, based upon the type of precipitation and the effect on their faunas of arthropods and reptiles. Seasonal activity and phenology are described, adaptations for burrowing, the avoidance of enemies, and defence, are also outlined.
Автор: Miriam Lehrer Название: Orientation and Communication in Arthropods ISBN: 3034898118 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783034898119 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 28734.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Many arthropods use celestial (skylight) and terrestrial (magnetic) compass cues for orientation, and some of them were shown to develop, through experience, oriented behaviours based on a variety of innate, hard-wired orientation mechanisms.
Автор: R?diger Wehner Название: Information Processing in the Visual Systems of Arthropods ISBN: 3540060200 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783540060208 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 16979.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: It is now generally accepted for a variety of reasons - morphological as well as physiologica- that the visual systems of arthropods provide a suitable model for the study of information proces- sing in neuronal networks.
Автор: K. Ozaki; J. Yukawa; T. Ohgushi; P.W. Price Название: Galling Arthropods and Their Associates ISBN: 4431546642 ISBN-13(EAN): 9784431546641 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 26120.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book addresses recent developments in the ecology, evolution, systematics, physiology, and biodiversity of gall-inducing arthropods, with individual contributions ranging in scope from detailed descriptions to profoundly synthetic studies.
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