Arthropods of Tropical Forests
Subtitle: Spatio-Temporal Dynamics and Resource Use in the Canopy
Contributors: Yves Basset (Editor); Roger Kitching (Editor); Scott Miller (Editor); Vojtech Novotny (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 3, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 490
ISBN-13: 9780521820004
Subjects: Ecological science, the Biosphere; Environmental science; Invertebrates; Nature/Ecology; Forest canopy ecology; Arthropoda; Forest Ecology; Tropics; Science; Life Sciences - Zoology - General; Life Sciences - Ecology; Forests & Forestry; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Science / Biology; Ecology
First sentence: In 1929, O. W. Richards and his colleagues hoisted light traps into the canopy of a Guyana forest and became the first to collect arthropods quantitatively from the canopy of any tropical rainforest (Hingston, 1930, 1932).