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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
T R New |
ISBN: | 9780470671801 0470671807 |
OCLC Number: | 830025782 |
Description: | xi, 218 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
Contents: | Machine generated contents note: 1. Introducing Hymenoptera and their Conservation -- Perspective -- Classification and diversity -- Importance for conservation -- Social life and conservation -- 2. Alien Hymenoptera in Classical Biological Control -- Introducing a dilemma -- Conservation concerns -- 3. The Junction of Biological Control and Conservation: Conservation Biological Control and Cultural Control -- 4. Introduced Bees: Threats or Benefits? -- 5. Social Wasps and Ants as Aliens -- Social wasps -- Ants -- Current perspective -- 6. Pollinator Declines -- Introducing the concerns -- Threats to pollinators -- Pathogens and parasites -- Pesticides -- Pollution -- 7. Levels of Conservation Concern and the Shortcomings of Current Practice -- Foci for conservation -- Species focus -- Biotope and habitat focus -- 8. Habitat Parameters and Manipulation -- Defining and assessing habitats in the landscape -- Habitat manipulations for conservation -- Natural and agricultural environments -- Urban environments -- Practical conservation -- 9. Species Case Histories -- Franklin's bumblebee (Bombus franklini) -- The great yellow bumblebee (Bombus distinguendus) -- Wallace's bee (Chalicodoma pluto) -- Neopasiphae simplicior in Western Australia -- The antennal-waving wasp (Tachysphex pechumani) -- The dinosaur ant (Nothomyrmecia macrops) -- The red-barbed ant (Formica rufibarbis) in Britain -- 10. Assessing Conservation Progress and Priorities for the Future -- Introduction: The basic need -- Monitoring -- The milieux of concern. |
Responsibility: | T.R. New. |
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I highly recommend Hymenoptera and Conservationto anybody who works with Hymenoptera (including invasive species, biological control and honeybees) or in general conservation, and to anyone with an interest in entomology. (Austral Ecology, 10 October 2014) Overall, this is an interesting and worthwhile book, which should stimulate more interest in this important order of insects. (British Ecological Society, 1 April 2013) The highly comprehensive, well-organized book presents an easy-to-understand overview of the challenges and goals associated with conservation efforts. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Students of all levels, researchers/faculty, and professionals/practitioners. (Choice, 1 April 2013) In Hymenoptera and Conservation New captures the reader, offering a concise chronology of past interventions and, in doing so, provides lessons on which future conservation strategies can be built. For this reason, I recommend this book to anyone interested in a better understanding of the role of insects in conservation as well as the full implications of intervention. (Fauna & Flora International, 1 January 2013) Read more...

