1. Impact of Climate Change on Arthropod Diversity -- 2. Prospecting Arthropod Biomolecules for Medicinal and Therapeutic Use: Recent Breakthroughs -- 3. Prospecting Arthropod Biomolecules for Medicinal and Therapeutic Use: Recent Breakthroughs -- 4. Prospecting Arthropod Biomolecules for Medicinal and Therapeutic Use: Recent Breakthroughs -- 5. An Overview of Crustacean Diversity in Mangrove Ecosystem -- 6. Phylogenetic Status, Diversity, Economic and Medicinal Importance of Crabs -- 7. Phylogenetic Status, Diversity, Economic and Medicinal Importance of Crabs -- 8. Phylogenetic Status, Diversity, Economic and Medicinal Importance of Crabs -- 9. Fluctuation of Brown Mite, Bryobia rubrioculus (Scheuten) (Acari: Tetranychidae) Population in the Cherry Orchards of Hamedan, Western Iran -- 10. Coconut Water as a Promising Culture Media for Hirsutella thompsonii Fisher, a Pathogen of Coconut Mite -- 11. Cladoceran Diversity, Distribution and Ecological Significance -- 12. Diversity and Distribution of Sphecoid Wasps in Kerala, India: Bioindicators of Habitat Quality -- 13.Diversity and Distribution of Chalcid Wasps in Kerala: Key Biological Control Agents in Cultivated Ecosystems -- 14. Diversity of Economically Important Indian Microgastrinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) with New Records from India -- 15. A Study on the Diversity and Distribution of Genus Camponotus Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Kerala: Ecologically Significant Agents in Ecosystem Functioning -- 16. Diversity of Tephritid Flies in Sub-Himalayan Region of West Bengal: Baseline Data for Developing Rational Management Practices -- 17. Diversity of Soft Scale Insects (Hemiptera, Sternorrhyncha, Coccoidea) in Sri Lanka -- 18. Insect Conservation: A Synthesis of Management Approaches -- 19. Giant Moths and Their Conservation -- 20. Biological characteristics of Arrhenotokous and Thelytokous Trichogramma pretiosum Riley -- 21. Faunal Composition of Scarab Beetles and Their Hosts in Assam -- 22. Honeybees and Beekeeping: The Global Scenario -- 23. Nominating the Bee Trees of Nandagudi/Ramagovindapura as a World Heritage Site -- 24. Requirements for Sustainable Management of Apis dorsata Fab. with Rafter Method -- 25. RNA Interference: History, Mechanisms, and Applications in Pest Management -- 26. Optimization of Fermentation Parameters and In Vitro Efficacy of Native Bacillus thuringiensis Isolates Against Spodoptera litura

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{u2019}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