Insect Conservation and Urban Environments

✍ Scribed by Tim R. New (auth.)

Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 252
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Urban Environments and Insect Wellbeing....Pages 1-19
Insects in Urban Environments....Pages 21-31
Insects Along Urban-Rural Gradients....Pages 33-64
Impacts on Insect Communities and Species....Pages 65-86
Alien Species in Urban Environments....Pages 87-101
Urban Insect Pest Management: Implications for Insect Conservation....Pages 103-119
Selected Urban Threats to Insects....Pages 121-131
Countering Insect Habitat Losses and Change in Urban Areas....Pages 133-161
Providing Habitats for Urban Insects....Pages 163-202
Landscape Connectivity for Urban Insects....Pages 203-212
Awareness and Priorities for the Future....Pages 213-238
Back Matter....Pages 239-244

✦ Subjects

Conservation Biology/Ecology; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Entomology

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