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‘In Considerable Variety’: Introducing the Diversity of Australia’s Insects

Many conservation managers lack entomological training and the perspective needed to conserve insects within their areas of responsibility. Using Australian insect examples this book provides an introduction to basic entomology and emphasises the massive taxonomic, ecological and evolutionary divers...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	New, Tim R.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2011, 2011
Edition:	1st ed. 2011
Subjects:	Conservation Biology Applied Ecology Experimental Organisms Invertebrates Invertebrate Zoology Ecology Biology / Technique
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1780-0?nosfx=y
Collection:	Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa

Table of Contents:

Preface
Chapter 1. The basic insect pattern: theme and variations
Chapter 2. Fossils and major insect adaptations
Chapter 3. Insect life histories
Chapter 4. Origins, distributions and diversity
Chapter 5. Environments and habitats for insects in Australia
Chapter 6. Foods and feeding biology
Chapter 7. Insect behaviour and lifestyles
Chapter 8. Insect communities
Chapter 9. Insect populations
Chapter 10. Insects in inland water environments
Chapter 11. Australia’s alpine insects
Chapter 12. Lowland insects and their environments: non-forest insects
Chapter 13. Forest insects
Chapter 14. Insects and people in Australia
Chapter 15. Australia’s alien insects
Chapter 16. Conservation
Chapter 17. Diversity and its implications for understanding Australia’s insects
Appendix 1. Australia’s insects: the players
Index

‘In Considerable Variety’: Introducing the Diversity of Australia’s Insects

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