Gullan, P. J. & Cranston, P.
The Insects 4th ed.
An Outline of Entomology

Blackwell Pub. 2010.2
584 pp.(H)
ISBN 1-4443-3036-5
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Contents
1. The importance, diversity, and conservation of insects/ 2. External anatomy/ 3. Internal anatomy and physiology/ 4. Sensory systems and behavior/ 5. Reproduction/ 6. Insect development and life histories/ 7. Insect systematics: phylogeny and classification/ 8. Insect biogeography and evolution/ 9. Ground-dwelling insects/ 10. Aquatic insects/ 11. Insects and plants/ 12.Insect societies/ 13.& Insect predation and parasitism/ 14. Insect defense/ 15. Medical and veterinary entomology/ 16.Pest management/ 17. Methods in entomology: collecting, preservation, curation, and identification/ Appendix 1: Taxoboxes/ Appendix 2: A reference guide to orders/ Glossary/ References/ Index/

* This established, popular textbook provides a stimulating and comprehensive introduction to the insects, the animals that represent over half of the planet's biological diversity. In this new fourth edition, the authors introduce the key features of insect structure, function, behavior, ecology and classification, placed within the latest ideas on insect evolution. *

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Gordh, G. & Headrick, D. H.
A Dictionary of Entomology 2nd ed.
昆虫学辞典　第２版

CABI Pub. 2010.4
1000 pp.(H)
ISBN 1-84593-542-X
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　24,200円

Contents
* This fully updated new edition of the Reference Reviews Top Ten Print Reference Source 2004 is a comprehensive, fully cross-referenced collection of terms, names and phrases used in entomology, incorporating an estimated 43,000 definitions. It is the only listing which covers insect anatomy, behaviour, biology, histology, molecular biology, morphology, pest management, taxonomy and systematics.

* The origin, etymology, part of speech and definition of each term and phrase are all provided, including the language, meaning or root of each term and constitutent parts. The common names of insects, their scientific binomen and tazonomic classification are provided, with diagnoses of pest species in many cases. All insect order, suborder, superfamily, subfamily names are given, together with diagnostic features of orders and families. With new and updated terms, particularly in molecular biology, phylogeny and spatial technology. *

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New, T. R.
Beetles in Conservation

Blackwell Pub. 2010.3
248 pp.(H)
ISBN 1-4443-3259-7
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　10,700円

Contents
1. Introduction/ 2. Practical Conservation: Basic Approaches and Considerations/ 3. Threats to Beetles: the Role of Habitat/ 4. Collecting and over-collecting/ 5. Alien species/ 6. Pollution and Climate Change/ 7. Components of Beetle Species Conservation: Ex Situ Conservation/ 8. Threats or Management: the Conservation Manager's Dilemma/ 9. Conservation Lessons from Beetles/ 10. Concluding Thoughts/ References/ Index/

* Beetles, the most diverse group of insects, are often abundant in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems. Many species are under threat from human changes to natural environments, and some are valuable tools in conservation, because they respond rapidly to changes that occur. Knowledge of these responses, of both abundance and composition of assemblages, enable use of some beetles to monitor environmental changes.

* Beetles impinge on humanity on many ways: as cultural objects, desirable collectables, major pests and competitors for resources need by people, as beneficial consumers of other pests, and by ensuring the continuity of vital ecological processes. This book is the first major global overview of the importance of conservation of beetles, and brings together much hitherto scattered information to demonstrate the needs for conservation, and how it may be approached. *

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Blomquist, G. J. & Bagneres, A.- G. ed.
Insect Hydrocarbons
Biology, Biochemistry, and Chemical Ecology
（昆虫炭化水素学）

Cambridge University Press 2010.3
504 pp.(H)
ISBN 0-521-89814-5
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　14,400円

Contents
1. Introduction: History and overview of insect hydrocarbons/ 2. Structure and analysis of insect hydrocarbons/ 3. Biosynthesis of cuticular hydrocarbon/ 4. Molecular biology and genetics of hydrocarbon production/ 5. Site of synthesis, mechanism of transport and selective deposition of hydrocarbons/ 6. Cuticular and water balance/ 7. Chemical taxonomy with hydrocarbons/ 8. Chemical synthesis of insect cuticular hydrocarbons/ 9. Oxygenated derivatives of hydrocarbons/ 10. Perception and olfaction of cuticular compounds/ 11. Nestmate recognition in social insects and the role of hydrocarbons/ 12. Cuticular hydrocarbon cues in the formation and maintenance of insect social groups/ 13. Hydrocarbon profiles indicate fertility and dominance status in ant, bee, and wasp colonies/ 14. Chemical deception/mimicry using cuticular hydrocarbons/ 15. Behavioral and evolutionary roles of cuticular hydrocarbons in Diptera/ 16. Contact recognition pheromones in scorpions and spiders/ 17. Hydrocarbons as contact pheromones of longhorned beetles/ 18. Polyene hydrocarbons, epoxides, and related compounds as components of lepidopteran pheromone blends/ 19. Volatile hydrocarbon pheromones from beetles/ 20. New areas of research on insect hydrocarbons and conclusion/ Index/ *

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Capinera, J.
Insects and Wildlife
昆虫と野生生物

Blackwell Pub. 2010.4
500 pp.(P)
ISBN 1-4443-3300-3
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Contents
* This book provides a comprehensive overview of the interrelationships of insects and wildlife. It serves as an introduction to insects and other arthropods for wildlife management and other vertebrate biology students, and emphasizes the importance of insects to wild vertebrate animals. The book emphasizes how insects exert important influences on wildlife habitat suitability and wildlife population sustainability, including their direct and indirect effects on wildlife health.

* Among the important topics covered are: ・the importance of insects as food items for vertebrate animals; ・the role of arthropods as determinants of ecosystem health and productivity; ・the ability of arthropods to transmit disease-causing agents; ・an overview of representative disease-causing agents transmitted by arthropods; ・arthropods as pests and parasites of vertebrates; ・the hazards to wildlife associated with using using pesticides to protect against insect damage; ・insect management using techniques other than pesticides; ・the importance of insect conservation and how insects influence wildlife conservation. *

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Hawksworth, D. L. ed.
Management and the Conservation of Biodiversity

Springer-Verlag 2009.12
352 pp.(H)
ISBN 90-481-3844-2
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　22,500円

Contents
* This book brings together a selection of 21 original studies submitted to Biodiversity and Conservation that address aspects of management for the conservation of biodiversity.

* The topics addressed include: lessons from the Northern spotted owl saga, hidden costs of implementing the EU Habitats Directive, the importance of recently created agricultural wetlands, cutting reeds to create a sustainable habitat, impacts and control of feral cats, selecting areas to complement existing reserve systems, beneficial effects of rabbit warrens, effects of fences on large predator ranges, spatial structure of critical habitats and connectivity, effects of an agro-pasture landscape on biodiversity, community involvement, reserve selection in forests, germ-plasm interventions in agroforestry systems, shade coffee plantations and the protection of tree diversity, reserves and the reduction of deforestation rates in dry tropical forests, reconciling forest conservation actions with usage by and needs of local peoples, weed invasion in understory plant communities in tropical lowland forests, problems of patch area and connectivity in plant conservation, the need not to focus just on hot-spots, and partitioning conservation across elevations. *

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Hawksworth, D. L. ed.
Methods and Practice in Biodiversity Conservation

Springer-Verlag 2009.12
320 pp.(H)
ISBN 90-481-3848-5
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　22,500円

Contents
* This book brings together a selection of 22 original studies submitted to Biodiversity and Conservation that address aspects of methods and practice in biodiversity conservation.

* The contributions deal with a wide variety of approaches to site selection and management, especially the use of bioindicators, surrogates, and other approaches to site selection. As no complete inventory of all taxa in any one site has yet been achieved, alternative strategies are essential and bioindicators or surrogates come to the fore.

* The articles included cover a wide range of organisms used in such approaches to in situ conservation: annelids, anurans, arthropods, birds, bryophytes, butterflies, collembolans, flowering pants, a lobster, molluscs, rodents, and turtles. Further, the habitats considered here embrace estuaries, forests, freshwater, grasslands, the marine, mountains, and sand-dunes, and are drawn from a wide range of countries ― notably Australia, Brazil, India, Italy, Mexico, Nigeria, Spain, Switzerland, Tanzania, and the U. K. *
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