University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore

Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-467) and index.

Canopy entomology, an expanding field of natural science / Yves Basset [and others] -- Methodological advances and limitations in canopy entomology / Yves Basset [and others] -- Vertical stratification of arthropod assemblages / Yves Basset [and others] -- Determinants of temporal variation in community structure / Raphael K. Didham and Neil D. Springate -- Herbivore assemblages and their food resources / Vojtech Novotny, Yves Basset and Roger L. Kitching -- Distribution of ants and bark-beetles in crowns of tropical oaks / Ulrich Simon, Martin Gossner and K. Eduard Linsenmair -- Vertical and temporal diversity of a species-rich moth taxon in Borneo / Christian H. Schulze and Konrad Fiedler -- Canopy foliage structure and flight density of butterflies and birds in Sarawak / Fumito Koike and Teruyoshi Nagamitsu -- Stratification of the spider fauna in a Tanzanian forest / Line L. S�rensen -- Fauna of suspended soils in an Ongokea gore tree in Gabon / Neville N. Winchester and Valerie Behan-Pelletier -- Vertical stratification of flying insects in a Surinam lowland rain forest / Bart P.E. De Dijn -- Insect responses to general flowering in Sarawak / Takao Itioka [and others] -- Arthropod assemblages across a long chronosequence in the Hawaiian Islands / Daniel S. Gruner and Dan A. Polhemus -- Seasonality of canopy beetles in Uganda / Thomas Wagner -- Seasonality and community composition of springtails in Mexican forests / Jos�e G. Palacios-Vargas and Gabriela Casta�no-Meneses -- Seasonal variation of canopy arthropods in central Amazon / Jos�e Camilo Hurtadu Guerrero [and others] -- Arthropod seasonality in tree crowns with different epiphyte loads / Sahine Stuntz, Ulrich Simon and Gerhard Zotz -- How do beetle assemblages respond to anthropogenic disturbance? / Andreas Floren and K. Eduard Linsenmair -- Organization of arthropod assemblages in individual African savanna trees / Karsten Mody, Henryk A. Bardorz and Eduard Linsenmair -- Flower ecology in the neotropics : a flower-ant love-hate relationship / Klaus Jaff�e [and others] -- Taxonomic composition and host specificity of phytophagous beetles in a dry forest in Panama / Frode �degaard -- Microhabitat distribution of forest grasshoppers in the Amazon / Christiane Am�ed�egnato -- Flowering events and beetle diversity in Venezuela / Susan Kirmse, Joachim Adis and Wilfried Morawetz -- Habitat use and stratification of Collembola and oribatid mites / Andreas Prinzing and Steffen Woas -- Insect herbivores feeding on conspecific seedlings and trees / H�ector Barrios -- Hallowed hideaways : basal mites in tree hollows and allied habitats / Matthew D. Shaw and David E. Walter -- Arthropod diel activity and stratification / Yves Basset [and others] -- Diel, seasonal and disturbance-induced variation in invertebrate assemblages / Timothy D. Schowalter and Lisa M. Ganio -- Tree relatedness and the similarity of insect assemblages : pushing the limits? / Roger L. Kitching, Karen L. Hurley and Lukman Thalib -- A review of mosaics of dominant ants in rainforests and plantations / Alain Dejean and Bruno Corbara -- Insect herbivores in the canopies of savannas and rainforests / S�ervio P. Ribeiro -- Canopy flowers and certainty : loose niches revisited / David W. Roubik, Shoko Sakai and Francesco Gattesco -- How polyphagous are Costa Rican dry forest saturniid caterpillars? / Daniel H. Janzen -- Influences of forest management on insects / Martin R. Speight, Jurie Intachat, Chey Vun Khen and Arthur Y.C. Chung -- Conclusion : arthropods, canopies and interpretable patterns / Yves Basset [and others].