Insects, Fire and Conservation

✍ Scribed by Tim R. New (auth.)

Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 213
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

A global synthesis of the impacts of wildfires and controlled burning on insects, bringing together much hitherto scattered information to provide a guide to improved conservation management practice. The great variety of responses by insect species and assemblages demonstrates the often subtle balance between fire being a severe threat and a vital management component. Examples from many parts of the world and from diverse biotopes and production systems display the increasingly detailed appreciation of fire impacts on insects in terrestrial and freshwater environments and the ways in which prescribed burning may be tailored to reduce harmful ecological impacts and incorporated into protocols for threatened species and wider insect conservation benefits.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Fire Ecology and Insect Ecology....Pages 1-20
Insect Responses to Fires....Pages 21-57
Sampling and Study Techniques....Pages 59-69
Ecological Impacts of Fire on Insects....Pages 71-93
Fires and Insect Pest Management....Pages 95-109
Fire in Threatened Species Conservation Management....Pages 111-126
Fire and Insect Assemblages....Pages 127-145
Fire as a Management Component....Pages 147-163
Prospects....Pages 165-181
Back Matter....Pages 183-208

✦ Subjects

Entomology; Conservation Biology/Ecology; Forestry; Biodiversity; Ecology

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