Insect Conservation and Urban Environments

Insect Conservation and Urban Environments

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  • Author: Tim R. New
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 3319212249
  • Category : Nature
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 252

Includes chapters on assessing changes among assemblages and in individual species, the variety of general threats (notably habitat changes and impacts of alien species) and more particularly urban threats. The first global overview and synthesis of the impacts of urbanisation on insects and their relatives and the needs and theoretical and practical background to conserving them in urban environments. Insect dependence on open spaces in built-up areas suggests a wide range of management options for conservation, from individual site (including novel habitats such as green roofs) to landscape-level connectivity. These measures, all discussed with specific examples, involve all sectors of humanity, from government agencies to individual householders and ‘citizen scientist’ groups. Each chapter includes pertinent and recent.


Special Issue on Insect Conservation in Urban Areas

Special Issue on Insect Conservation in Urban Areas

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  • Author: Andrew S. Pullin
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  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 72


Insect Conservation

Insect Conservation

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  • Author: Michael J Samways
  • Publisher: CABI
  • ISBN: 1789241685
  • Category : Nature
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 559

Insects do not live in isolation. They interact with the abiotic environment and are major components of the terrestrial and freshwater biotic milieus. They are crucial to so many ecosystem processes and are the warp and weft of all terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems that are not permanently frozen. This means that insect conservation is a two-way process: insects as the subjects of conservation, while also they are useful tools for conserving the environment. This book overviews strategic ways forward for insect conservation. It is a general view of what has worked and what has not for the maintenance of insect diversity across the world, as well as what might be the right approaches for the future.


Insect Conservation

Insect Conservation

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  • Author: Michael J. Samways
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0199298238
  • Category : Nature
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 458

This handbook outlines the main methods and techniques, both modern and traditional, used to measure insect diversity. With the growing relevance of insect conservation in nature, this guide should assist students in understanding a complicated field.


Routledge Handbook of Insect Conservation

Routledge Handbook of Insect Conservation

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  • Author: James S. Pryke
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 1040023428
  • Category : Nature
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 812

This handbook presents a comprehensive overview of insect conservation and provides practical solutions to counteract insect declines, at a time where insects are facing serious threats across the world from habitat destruction to invasive species and climate change. The Routledge Handbook of Insect Conservation consist of six sections, covering all aspects of insect conservation, containing contributions from academics, researchers and practitioners from across the globe. Section I addresses the fundamentals of insect conservation and outlines the reason why insects are important and discusses the greatest drivers of insect decline. The chapters in Section II examine the approaches that can be used for insect conservation globally, such as protected areas and agroecology, while highlighting the importance of insects in the composition and function of ecosystems. The chapters in Section III focus on insect populations in the major biomes around the world, from temperate and tropical forests to savannas and grasslands, with the chapters in Section IV focusing on natural and manmade ecosystems of the world, including mountain, soil, urban, island and agricultural habitats. They discuss the unique pressures and challenges for each biome and ecosystem and offer practical solutions for conserving their insect populations. Section V focuses on the assessment and monitoring of insects for conservation, discussing how we can implement practical monitoring protocols and what options are available. A wide variety of methods and tools are examined, including citizen science, bioindication, the role of taxonomy, drones and eDNA. The book concludes by examining policy and education strategies for insect conservation in Section VI. The chapters discuss key issues around social and policy strategies and conservation legislation for ensuring the long-term protection of insects. This book is essential reading for students and scholars of biodiversity conservation and entomology as well as professionals and policymakers involved in conservation looking for real-world solutions to the threats facing insects across the globe.


Insect Diversity Conservation

Insect Diversity Conservation

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  • Author: Michael J. Samways
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 0521783380
  • Category : Nature
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 356

This groundbreaking book is a contemporary global synthesis of the rapidly developing and important field of insect conservation biology. Insects play important roles in terrestrial ecological processes and in maintaining the world as we know it. They present particular conservation challenges, especially as a quarter face extinction within the next few decades. This textbook addresses the ethical foundation of insect conservation, and asks why should we concern ourselves with conservation of a butterfly, beetle or bug? The success of insects and their diversity, which have survived glaciers, is now facing a more formidable obstacle: the meteoric impact of humans. After addressing threats, from invasive alien plants to climate change, the book explores ways insects and their habitats are prioritised, mapped, monitored and conserved. Landscape and species approaches are considered. This book is for undergraduates, postgraduates, researchers and managers in conservation biology or entomology, and the wider biological and environmental sciences.


The Conservation of Insects and Their Habitats

The Conservation of Insects and Their Habitats

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  • Author: N.M. Collins
  • Publisher: Academic Press
  • ISBN: 0323149308
  • Category : Technology & Engineering
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 469

The Conservation of Insects and their Habitats is a compilation of papers presented in the 15th Symposium of the Royal Entomological Society of London held at the Department of Physics Lecture Theatre Imperial College, London, on September 14-15, 1989. The papers cover topics on the diversity of entomological habitats and ecologicalroles around the world, and highlight the value of insects to humanity. Some practical proposals for conservation, especially in tropical forests and on islands, where their diversity is greatest, are also given. This book will add to the continuing force for the conservation and protection of biological diversity of the Earth.


Insect Conservation for the Twenty-First Century

Insect Conservation for the Twenty-First Century

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  • Author: Michael J. Samways
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  • Category : Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages :

Insects have been immensely successful as an animal group. They dominate compositional diversity of all but the saltiest and coldest parts of the planet. Yet today insects are declining at a precipitous rate. This is of great concern in terms of impoverishment of Earth, and is also dire for us. Insects contribute to the maintenance of terrestrial and freshwater systems, their service delivery and their resilience. The meteoric impact of humans is challenging this dominance, yet so few people realize that the very fabric of life on which they depend is being unraveled at an alarming rate. Action is required, as are new perspectives, if we are to maintain insect diversity and services through the twenty-first century. Here, we review how we should view and act to have more effective insect diversity conservation based on six themes: (1) philosophy (establishing the ethical foundation), (2) research (the finding out), (3) policy (the framework for action), (4) psychology (understanding how to engage humans in insect conservation action), (5) practice (implementation of action), and (6) validation (establishing how well we are doing at conserving insects). We then overview some emergent challenges and solutions at both the species and landscape operational levels in agricultural, forestry, and urban environments.


The Management of Insects in Recreation and Tourism

The Management of Insects in Recreation and Tourism

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  • Author: Raynald Harvey Lemelin
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1107012880
  • Category : Nature
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 369

An insight into the booming industry of insect leisure and tourism, using case studies and examples from around the world.


Insect conservation and Australia’s Inland Waters

Insect conservation and Australia’s Inland Waters

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  • Author: Tim R. New
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 3030570088
  • Category : Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 303

The first broad overview of conservation needs of Australia’s largely endemic freshwater insects, drawing on examples and information from many parts of the world to illustrate and develop needs and practical prospects for conservation in inland water environments. The wide variety of those environments in Australia and their diverse insect inhabitants – many of them highly localised and ecologically specialised and vulnerable - and threats to them is illustrated. Case histories demonstrate the different aspects of practical conservation management that may be possible in different contexts, and numerous references facilitate understanding by non-specialist readers and non-entomologist conservation managers and practitioners.