Insect Conservation and Australia's Grasslands

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: New, Tim R. (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: Entomology.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Conservation biology.; Ecology .; Applied ecology.; Biodiversity.; Community ecology, Biotic.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Conservation Biology/Ecology.; Applied Ecology.; Community & Population Ecology.

Australia's varied grasslands have suffered massive losses and changes since European settlement, and those changes continue under increasingly intensive human pressures for development and agricultural production. The values of native grasslands for conservation of endemic native biodiversity,...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction to grasses and grasslands
• 2. Australian grasslands - variety and extent
• 3. Agents of change - Management and Succession
• 4. Intricacies of grassland management for conservation
• 5. Urban grasslands,
• 6. Insects in grasslands - the key groups for understanding
• 7. Flagship insect species in Australia's grasslands
• 8. Pasture pests
• 9. Maintaining ecological integrity and processes
• 10
• Grassland management for insect conservation: grazing, mowing and fire
• 11
• Grassland management for insect conservation: restoration
• Appendix 1. Australian grassland insects and grassland ecological communities listed under conservation legislation
• Appendix 2. Australian grassland insects.