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

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-94-007-1780-0
Verlag: Springer Netherland
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 254 Seiten

Reihe: Biomedical and Life Sciences

The book introduces basic entomology, emphasising perspectives on insect diversity important in conservation assessment and setting priorities for management, as a foundation for managers and others without entomological training or background. It bridges the gap between photographic essays on insect identification and more technical texts, to illustrate and discuss many aspects of taxonomic, ecological and evolutionary diversity in the Australian insect fauna, and its impacts in human life, through outlines of many aspects of insect natural history.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

New, Tim R.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.