Animal Diversity Natural History and Conservation Vol. 5 - Hardcover

The chapters incorporated in the present Volume 5 of the book series Animal Diversity, Natural History and Conservation represents an extremely modest selection of several facts on the subject. The lead articles includes: · Community Ecology and Taxonomy of Polychaetes in a Tropical Estuary · Distribution of Nymphalid Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) at Different Altitudinal Habitats · A Taxonomic Review of the Genus Cyrtolabulus Van der Vecht, 1969 · Web Dynamics and Estimation of Capture Area of the Common Signature Spider, Argiope pulchella Thorell · Morphology of Cyrtophora bidenta Tikader · Effect of Insecticides on Spiders · Eco-biology of the Endemic Fruit Fly Phorticella striata · Breeding Biology and Mating Strategies of Coral Reef Shrimp Lysmata wurdemanni Gibbes · Perspective on Fish Diversity · DNA Fingerprinting in Conservational Research on Ichthyofauna · Aspects of Dietary Tactics and Choices in Little Brown Doves (Streptopelia senegalensis senegalensis) · In Situ and Ex Situ Conservation of Red Panda · Habitat Characteristics and Foraging Ecology of Common Babbler, Turdoides caudatus caudatus · Behavioural Ecology of Sloth Bear (Melursus ursinus Shaw 1791) · Ecological Crisis vis-à-vis Intraspecific Conflict: A Case Study with Rhinos · State of the Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus Linnaeus 1758) and its Habitat It is hoped, this volume of the series shall be a useful resource of knowledge for the biologists, environmentalists, ecologists, conservationists and people of allied disciplines engaged in respective fields of research.