Biodiversity and Conservation

David William PEARCE [1941 – 2005]

Alan Bull

Editorial

David L. Hawksworth

Introduction

Michael J. Samways

Arthropod Diversity in Lama Forest Reserve (South Benin), a Mosaic of Natural, Degraded and Plantation Forests

Thibault Lachat, Serge Attignon, Julien Djego, Georg Goergen, Peter Nagel, Brice Sinsin, Ralf Peveling

Ecosystem Disturbances and Diversity Increase: Implications for Invertebrate Conservation

Rafael Dias Loyola, Sofia-Luiza Brito, Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira

The Diversity and Distribution of the Fruit Bat Fauna (Mammalia, Chiroptera, Megachiroptera) of Danjugan Island, Cauayan, Negros Occidental, Philippines (with Notes on the Microchiroptera)

R. O’malley, T. King, C. S. Turner, S. Tyler, J. Benares, M. Cummings, P. Raines

Effects of Landscape Elements on the Distribution of the Rare Bumblebee Species Bombus muscorum in an Agricultural Landscape

Tim Diekötter, Kerstin Walther-Hellwig, Manuel Conradi, Matthias Suter, Robert Frankl

How Ant Nests Increase Soil Biota Richness and Abundance: A Field Experiment

April M. Boulton, Keith D. Amberman

Host Specificity, Alpha- and Beta-Diversity of Phytophagous Beetles in Two Tropical Forests in Panama

Frode Ødegaard

Vertical and Temporal Patterns of Biodiversity of Fruit-Feeding Butterflies in a Tropical Forest in Uganda

Freerk Molleman, Arjan Kop, Paul M. Brakefield, Philip J. De vries, Bas J. Zwaan

Associations Between Weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidea) and Plants, and Conservation Values in Two Tussock Grasslands, Otago, New Zealand

T. J. Murray, K. J. M. Dickinson, B. I. P. Barratt

Effects of Management Intensity and Season on Arboreal Ant Diversity and Abundance in Coffee Agroecosystems

Stacy M. Philpott, Ivette Perfecto, John Vandermeer

Influence of Habitat Fragmentation on the Genetic Variability in Leaf Litter Ant Populations in Tropical Rainforests of Sabah, Borneo

Tobias O. Bickel, Carsten A. Brühl, Jürgen R. Gadau, Bert Hölldobler, K. Eduard Linsenmair

Comparing Relative Model Fit of Several Species-Accumulation Functions to Local Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea Butterfly Inventories of Mediterranean Habitats

Alberto Jiménez-Valverde, Silvia Jiménez Mendoza, José Martín Cano, Miguel L. Munguira

The Habitat Requirement of the Genji-Firefly Luciola cruciata (Coleoptera : Lampyridae), a Representative Endemic Species of Japanese Rural Landscapes

Mari Takeda, Tatsuya Amano, Kazuhiro Katoh, Hiroyoshi Higuchi

Diversity of Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera) in Galicia, Northwest Spain: Estimating the Completeness of the Regional Inventory

Andrés Baselga, Francisco Novoa

Topographic Heterogeneity Plays a Crucial Role for Grasshopper Diversity in a Southern African Megabiodiversity Hotspot

Solomon Gebeyehu, Michael J. Samways

Landscape Effects on the Genetic Structure of the Ground Beetle Poecilus Versicolor STURM 1824

Anna-Christine Sander, Tobias Purtauf, Stephanie I. J. Holzhauer, Volkmar Wolters

The Response of Ground Beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) to Selection Cutting in a South Carolina Bottomland Hardwood Forest

Michael D. Ulyshen, James L. Hanula, Scott Horn, John C. Kilgo, Christopher E. Moorman

Factors Influencing Bug Diversity (Insecta: Heteroptera) in Semi-Natural Habitats

Corinne Zurbrügg, Thomas Frank

Insect Colonisation of Fruiting Bodies of the Wood-decaying Fungus Fomitopsis pinicola at Different Distances from an Old-growth Forest

Mattias Jonsson, Göran Nordlander

Dragonfly Assemblages in Arid Tropical Environments: A Case Study from Western Namibia

Frank Suhling, Göran Sahlén, Andreas Martens, Eugene Marais, Carsten Schütte

Richness, Abundance, and Complementarity of Fruit-feeding Butterfly Species in Relict Sacred Forests and Forest Reserves of Ghana

J. L. Bossart, E. Opuni-Frimpong, S. Kuudaar, E. Nkrumah

Ecological Impact Assessment of the Aznalcóllar Mine Toxic Spill on Edaphic Coleopteran Communities in the Guadiamar River Basin (Southern Iberian Peninsula)

Ana María Cárdenas, Juan M. Hidalgo

Diversity of the Scuttle Fly (Diptera: Phoridae) Communities in the Plantations of Moist Pine Forests of the Białowieża Primeval Forest and the Tuchola Forest (Poland)

Ewa Durska

Spatial Distribution of Ground Beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) and Moths (Lepidoptera) in the Mrtvý Luh Bog, Šumava Mts (Central Europe): A Test of Habitat Island Community

Aleš Bezděk, Josef Jaroš, Karel Spitzer

Surrogate Habitats Demonstrate the Invasion Potential of the African Pugnacious Ant

Pia Addison, Michael J. Samways

Impacts of Catastrophic Earthquakes on the Insect Communities in Estuarine Mangroves, Northern Taiwan

Can-Jen W. Maa, Huei-Jin Wang, Hsing-Juh Lin

Countryside Stewardship Scheme and Butterflies: A Study of Plant and Butterfly Species Richness

R. G. Field, T. Gardiner, C. F. Mason, J. Hill

Habitat Specificity and Variation of Coleopteran Assemblages Between Habitats in a Southern African (Swaziland) Agricultural Landscape

C. N. Magagula

Effects of Habitat Disturbance can be Subtle Yet Significant: Biodiversity of Hawkmoth-Assemblages (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) in Southeast-Asia

Jan Beck, Ian J. Kitching, K. Eduard Linsenmair

The Importance of Ants and High-Shade Management to Coffee Pollination and Fruit Weight in Chiapas, Mexico

Stacy M. Philpott, Shinsuke Uno, Jorge Maldonado

Sampling to Assess a Re-Established Appalachian Forest in Ohio Based on Gelechioid Moths (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea)

Sibyl R. Bucheli, David J. Horn, John W. Wenzel

Diversity Patterns of Bornean Butterfly Assemblages

Daniel F. R. Cleary, Martin J. Genner

Erratum

Instruction for Authors