Maurizio G Paoletti

Invertebrate Biodiversity as Bioindicators of Sustainable Landscapes

Practical Use of Invertebrates to Assess Sustainable Land Use

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Reducing environmental hazard and human impact on different ecosystems, with special emphasis on rural landscapes is the main topic of different environmental policies designed in developed countries and needed in most developing countries. This book covers the bioindication approach of rural landscapes and man managed ecosystems including both urbanised and industrialised ones. The main techniques and taxa used for bioindication are considered in detail. Remediation and contamination is faced with diversity, abundance and dominance of biota, mostly invertebrates. Invertebrate Biodiversity as Bioindicators of Sustainable Landscapes provides a basic tool for students and scientists involved in landscape ecology and planning, environmental sciences, landscape remediation and pollution.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science
• Seitenzahl: 460
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 1999
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780444566270
• ISBN-10: 0444566279
• Artikelnr.: 68433305

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword (M.G. Paoletti). Using bioindicators based on biodiversity to
assess landscape sustainability (M.G. Paoletti).The ecological role of
biodiversity in agroecosystems (M.A. Altieri). Biodiversity evaluation in
agricultural landscapes: above-ground insects (P. Duelli, M.K. Obrist and
D.R. Schmatz).Bacterial diversity in agroecosystems (A.C. Kennedy).
Biodiversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in agroecosystems (D.D. Douds
Jnr., P.D. Millner). Soil protozoa as bioindicators: pros and cons,
methods, diversity, representative examples (W. Foissner). Nematode
diversity in agroecosystems (G.W. Yeates, T. Bongers). The role of
earthworms for assessment of sustainability and as bioindicators (M.G.
Paoletti). Woodlice (Isopoda: Oniscidea): their potential for assessing
sustainability and use as bioindicators (M.G. Paoletti, M. Hassall).Use of
soil dwelling Diptera (Insecta, Diptera) as bioindicators: a review of
ecological requirements and response to disturbance (J. Frouz). Carabid
beetles in sustainable agriculture: a review on pest control efficacy,
cultivation impacts and enhancement (B. Kromp).Spiders (Araneae) useful for
pest limitation and bioindication (P. Marc, A. Canard, F. Ysnel).Diversity
of Heteroptera in agroecosystems: role of sustainability and bioindication
(G. Fauvel). Neuroptera in agricultural ecosystems (M. Stelzl, D. Devetak).
Biodiversity of predaceous coccinellidae in relation to bioindication and
economic importance (G. Iperti).Syrphidae: can they be used as
environmental bioindicators? (D. Sommaggio). Staphylinid beetles as
bioindicators (J. Bohac). Pollinators as bioindicators of the state of the
environment: species, activity and diversity (P.G. Kevan). Predatory mites
(Gamasina, Mesostigmata) (H.H. Koehler). Oribatid mite biodiversity in
agroecosystems: role for bioindication (V. M. Behan-Pelletier). Ants as
bioindicators of soil function in rural environments (L.A. Lobry de Bruyn).