African Biodiversity

1. Front Matter

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2. Complementarity of Species Distributions as a Tool for Prioritising Conservation Actions in Africa: Testing the Efficiency of Using Coarse-Scale Distribution Data

   • Jon Fjeldså, Herbert Tushabe

   Pages 1-24

3. Scorpion Diversity and Distribution in Southern Africa: Pattern and Process

   • Lorenzo Prendini

   Pages 25-68

4. Madagascar as a Model Region for the Study of Tempo and Pattern in Adaptive Radiations

   • Miguel Vences

   Pages 69-84

5. Commemorating Martin Eisentraut (1902–1994) - Important Explorer of Tropical African Vertebrates

   • Wolfgang Böhme

   Pages 85-98

6. Earwigs (Dermaptera: Insects) of Kenya - Checklist and Species New to Kenya

   • Fabian Haas, Joachim Holstein, Anja Zahm, Christoph L. Häuser, Wanja Kinuthia

   Pages 99-107

7. Morphometric Differentiation in the East African Grasshopper Genus Afrophlaeoba JAGO, 1983 (Orthoptera: Acrididae)

   • Axel Hochkirch

   Pages 109-118

8. Katydids and Crickets (Orthoptera: Ensifera) of the Kakamega Forest Reserve, Western Kenya

   • Joachim Holstein, Fabian Haas, Anja Zahm, Christoph L. Häser, Wanja Kinuthia

   Pages 119-124

9. Ecology and Diversity of Canopy Associated Ceratocanthidae (Insecta: Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea) in An Afrotropical Rainforest

   • Alberto Ballerio, Thomas Wagner

   Pages 125-132

10. Human Influence on the Dung Fauna in Afrotropical Grasslands (Insecta: Coleoptera)

    • Frank-Thorsten Krell, Vincent S. Mahiva, Célestin Kouakou, Paul N’goran, Sylvia Krell-Westerwalbesloh, Dorothy H. Newman et al.

    Pages 133-139

11. Genuine Africans or Tertiary Immigrants? — The Genus Hydropsyche in the Afrotropical Region (Insecta, Trichoptera: Hydropsychidae)

    • Wolfram Mey

    Pages 141-150

12. Fruit-Feeding Butterfly Communities of Forest ‘Islands’ in Ghana: Survey Completeness and Correlates of Spatial Diversity

    • Janice L. Bossart, Emmanuel Opuni-Frimpong, Sylvestor Kuudaar, Elvis Nkrumah

    Pages 151-158

13. Biogeography, Diversity and Ecology of Sawflies in the Afromontane Region (Insecta: Symphyta)

    • Frank Koch

    Pages 159-166

14. Diversity, Distribution Patterns and Endemism of Southern African Bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea)

    • Michael Kuhlmann

    Pages 167-172

15. Does Grazing Influence Bee Diversity?

    • Carolin Mayer

    Pages 173-179

16. The Pholcid Spiders of Africa (Araneae: Pholcidae): State of Knowledge and Directions for Future Research

    • Bernhard A. Huber

    Pages 181-186

17. West African Fish Diversity — Distribution Patterns and Possible Conclusions for Conservation Strategies

    • Timo Moritz, K. Eduard Linsenmair

    Pages 187-195

18. Distribution and Population Density of the Black-Eared Malagasy Poison Frog, mantella Milotympanum Staniszewski, 1996 (Amphibia: Mantellidae)

    • David R. Vieites, Falitiana E. C. Rabemananjara, Parfait Bora, Bertrand Razafimahatratra, Olga Ramilijaona Ravoahangimalala, Miguel Vences

    Pages 197-204

19. Amphibian and Reptile Diversity in the Southern Udzungwa Scarp Forest Reserve, South-Eastern Tanzania

    • Michele Menegon, Sebastiano Salvidio

    Pages 205-212

20. Interpreting Morphological and Molecular Data on Indian Ocean Giant Tortoises

    • Justin Gerlach

    Pages 213-219

In May 2004, the Alexander Koenig Zoological Research Museum hosted the Fifth International Symposium on Tropical Biology. This series was established at the ZFMK in the early 1980s, and has variably focused on systematics and ecology of tropical organisms, with an emphasis on Africa. Previous volumes are those edited by Schuchmann (1985), Peters and Hutterer (1990), Ulrich (1997), and Rheinwald (2000). The symposium in 2004 was organized by the Entomology Department under the direction of Michael Schmitt. The intention was to focus on Africa rather than on a particular taxon, and to highlight biodiversity at all levels ranging from molecules to ecosystems. This focus was timely partly because of the currently running BIOTA Africa programmes (BIOdiversity Monitoring Transect Analysis in Africa). BIOTA is an interdisciplinary research project focusing on sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity in Africa (http://www.biote-africa.de). Session titles were Biogeography and Speciation Processes, Phylogenetic Patterns and Systematics, Diversity Declines and Conservation, and Applied Biodiversity Informatics. Each session was opened by an invited speaker, and all together 77 lectures and 59 posters were presented. There were over 200 participants and it was gratifying to us to meet colleagues from 26 nations, including Russia, Ukraine, Japan, USA, and ten African countries. We thank all participants for their valuable contributions.

• Aves
• Fauna
• Insecta
• Mammalia
• Namib
• Orthoptera
• Tempo
• adaptive Radiation
• biodiversity
• biogeography
• classification
• ecology
• ecosystem
• evolution
• phylogeny

• Alexander Koenig Zoological Research Museum, Bonn, Germany

  Bernhard A. Huber, Bradley J. Sinclair, Karl-Heinz Lampe

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