Ecology, Kalimantan, Borneo, dragonflies, Odonata, Sungai Wain, lowland mixed dipterocarp forest, destruction of forest.

This book analyse the dragonfly fauna (88 species) against spatial and temporal disturbances in Indonesia?s Sungai Wain Protection Forest (one of the few remaining fragments of primary rain forest in the East Kalimantan). The reader is given not only information and images of the species themselves, but an insight into how dragonflies are entwined with the habitat in which they are found, and how changes to that habitat affect them, and how they in turn reflect those changes. The highest species diversity was observed in intact primary forest: 60% of all recorded species were found there and 32% of all species were exclusive to this habitat. The proportion of biotope specialists decreased along the gradient ? intact primary forest, slightly degraded primary forest, secondary forest, heavily degraded forest and non-forest. Adult odonates comprise an appropriately sensitive and versatile indicator group for identifying changes in terrestrial forest environments as well as in freshwater habitats.

This book analyse the dragonfly fauna (88 species) against spatial and temporal disturbances in Indonesia?s Sungai Wain Protection Forest (one of the few remaining fragments of primary rain forest in the East Kalimantan). The reader is given not only information and images of the species themselves, but an insight into how dragonflies are entwined with the habitat in which they are found, and how changes to that habitat affect them, and how they in turn reflect those changes. The highest species diversity was observed in intact primary forest: 60% of all recorded species were found there and 32% of all species were exclusive to this habitat. The proportion of biotope specialists decreased along the gradient ? intact primary forest, slightly degraded primary forest, secondary forest, heavily degraded forest and non-forest. Adult odonates comprise an appropriately sensitive and versatile indicator group for identifying changes in terrestrial forest environments as well as in freshwater habitats.