Smaller Orders of Insects of the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
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Smaller Orders of Insects of the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

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  1. 278 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Smaller Orders of Insects of the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

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About this book

The Galapagos Islands of Ecuador are world famous for their unique plants and animals, and the hints these gave to Charles Darwin in forming his ideas on evolution. They are the world's least altered set of tropical oceanic islands. The oldest have been available for colonization by land plants and animals for about 3-4 million years. At least 1850 species of insects and 350 species of other terrestrial arthropods are now known to occur on the islands. This book is a synthesis of both previously published information and abundant new data derived from extensive recent field studies on Galapagos insects. The dynamics and patterns of the evolution, ecology, and distribution of the entire insect fauna are presented in general. The core of the book is an account of the 495 species of insects in the smaller orders (excluding Phthiraptera, Coleoptera, Diptera, Lepidoptera, and Hymenoptera), with detailed information on their distribution and bionomics. This work will serve entomologists, island ecologists, evolutionary biologists, and conservation scientists as a framework to further the study and protection of the insects, the fauna and flora in general, and the islands themselves. It is a contribution to a comparative global understanding of the origin, evolution, and ecological structuring of oceanic island insect faunas.

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Information

Publisher
NRC Research Press
Year
2001
eBook ISBN
9780660189925
Edition
0
Topic
Biological Sciences
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover page
  2. Half title page
  3. Cover plate - Gryllus darwini
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright and Publishing page
  6. Contents
  7. Prologue
  8. Abstract
  9. Résumé
  10. Summary
  11. Foreword
  12. Acknowledgements
  13. Chapter 1. Introduction
  14. Chapter 2. Information sources about Galápagos Insects
  15. Chapter 3. Processes: origin and arrival of the insect fauna
  16. Chapter 4. Processes: evolution of the insect fauna
  17. Chapter 5. Patterns: distributional and ecological determinants of composition or structure of an insect fauna
  18. Chapter 6. Order Collembola: Springtails
  19. Chapter 7. Order Diplura: Bristletails
  20. Chapter 8. Orders Archeognatha and Thysanura
  21. Chapter 9. Order Odonata
  22. Chapter 10. Order Orthoptera
  23. Chapter 11. Order Mantodea
  24. Chapter 12. Order Blattodea
  25. Chapter 13. Order Isoptera
  26. Chapter 14. Order Dermaptera
  27. Chapter 15. Order Embioptera
  28. Chapter 16. Order Zoraptera
  29. Chapter 17. Order Psocoptera
  30. Chapter 18. Order Thysanoptera
  31. Chapter 19. Order Homoptera
  32. Chapter 20. Order Hemiptera (Heteroptera)
  33. Chapter 21. Order Neuroptera
  34. Chapter 22. Order Strepsiptera
  35. Chapter 23. Order Siphonaptera
  36. Back cover