Insect Diversity Conservation [Paperback]

It addresses the threats insect populations face and explores ways insects and their habitats are prioritised, mapped, monitored and conserved.Insect Diversity Conservation reviews the background and ethics of insect conservation and the existing threats to insect diversity. It explains the reasoning behind, and the techniques used, to maintain and protect insect diversity. Written in an accessible manner, it is aimed at the student. Insect conservation has become a field in its own right because insects make up such a large proportion of total species numbers and biomass. This is a field that has grown rapidly in recent years and become a significant component of conservation biology.Insect Diversity Conservation reviews the background and ethics of insect conservation and the existing threats to insect diversity. It explains the reasoning behind, and the techniques used, to maintain and protect insect diversity. Written in an accessible manner, it is aimed at the student. Insect conservation has become a field in its own right because insects make up such a large proportion of total species numbers and biomass. This is a field that has grown rapidly in recent years and become a significant component of conservation biology.Reviewing the background and ethics of insect conservation as well as current threats to insect diversity, this book explains the reasoning behind, and the techniques used, to maintain and protect insect diversity. Insect conservation has recently become a significant component of conservation biology because insects make up such a large proportion of total species numbers and biomass.Preface; Part I. The Need for Insect Diversity Conservation: 1. Ethical foundation for insect conservation; 2. The special case of insects in conservation biology; 3. Insects and the conservation of ecosystem processes; Part II. Insects and the Changing World: 4. Degradation and fragmentation of ecosystems; 5. Responses by insects to the changing land mosaic; 6. l“'