Lepidoptera Conservation in a Changing World [Paperback]

The Convention on Biological Diversity set a world target: to achieve by 2010 a significant reduction of the current rate of biodiversity loss. The EU went further, aiming to halt biodiversity loss by 2010. In March 2010, the charity Butterfly Conservation held its 6th International Symposium on The 2010 Target and Beyond for Lepidoptera. This book, edited by John Dover, Martin Warren and Tim Shreeve and with a Forward by Sir David Attenborough, is a collection of papers from that meeting. The book documents the failure to achieve the 2010 targets and the urgent need to redouble conservation efforts. Papers presented on Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation, The Science of Conservation Management, Landscape-scale Conservation and Future Challenges illustrate some of the problems we face, but also demonstrate that, with the application of the right tools and knowledge and with sufficient determination, butterflies, moths, and their habitats can have a secure future.

Preface.- Introduction.- 2010 Assessments for Lepidoptera.- British Butterfly distributions and the 2010 target.- The development of butterfly indicators in the United Kingdom and assessments in 2010.- Moths count: recording moths for conservation in the UK.- The state of the Dutch larger moth fauna.- Recent trends in butterfly populations from north-east Spain and Andorra in the light of habitat and climate change.- Andorran butterfly monitoring scheme.- Assessing conservation status and trends for the worlds butterflies: the Sampled Red List Index approach.- Butterfly community recovery in degraded rainforest habitats in the Upper Guinean Forest Zone (Kakum Forest, Ghana).- Conservation of butterflies in Japan: status, actions and strategy.- Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation.- Recent evidence for the climate change threat to Lepidoptera and other insects.- Synchronisation of egg hatching of brown hairstreak (Thecla betulae) and budburst of bl“M