Biology of the Springtails
Biology of the Springtails

Author: Stephen P. Hopkin

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 1997-02-27

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 019158925X

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Springtails are the most numerous and wide-spread insects in terrestrial ecosystems. They are important ecotoxicological test organisms and have been used extensively to indicate the effects of environmental pollutants and different agricultural regimes on biodiversity in soils. This comprehensive work by the co-author of The biology of millipedes is the only single-volume review of the biology of springtails in the English language to appear this century. The book covers classification, behaviour, physiology, evolution, ecology, and ecotoxicology. An extensive reference section with more than 2500 entries is included together with a complete list of all Collembola genera, a list of studies on the effects of chemicals on springtails, and reference to species checklists for most countries of the world.

An Updated Checklist of Canadian and Alaskan Collembola
An Updated Checklist of Canadian and Alaskan Collembola

Author: Anatoly Babenko

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13: 9781776706501

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Abstract "The available literature data on the species diversity and geographical distribution of Collembola in Canada and Alaska is summarized. In total, the checklist covers 541 named species of Collembola. This includes 475 species in 135 genera from 24 families recorded from Canada, as well as 241 species in 75 genera from 19 families reported from Alaska. For each species the current name, basionym with a full reference, records for different provinces and territories with their authorships, and general distributional ranges are given. Taxonomic remarks have been added when necessary. The checklist is based on 536 references (including 262 with Canadian records) published up to May 2018 and on a number of publicly available online resources. Keywords: Collembola, springtails, species list, taxonomic remarks, distribution, Canada, Alaska, Collembola"--Page 6.

Coastal Staphylinidae (Coleoptera): A worldwide checklist, biogeography and natural history
Coastal Staphylinidae (Coleoptera): A worldwide checklist, biogeography and natural history

Author: J. H. Frank

Publisher: PenSoft Publishers LTD

Published: 2011-06-16

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 9546425958

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A chapter on Staphylinidae in a 1976 book on marine insects was the last general work on coastal rove beetles worldwide. Since then, phylogenetic studies on rove beetles have yielded a different perspective on that family, now with well over 50,000 species. Almost 400 species of them are now believed to be restricted to sea coasts. The detailed distribution and current classification of the coastal species are here documented in a review of the world literature accompanied by discussion and numerous color photographs of habitus and habitat.