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050			_aDUCE QL496.4.S364
100			_aSamways, M. J. _qMichael J. Samways
245			_aInsect diversity conservation/
260			_aNew York: _bCambridge University, _c2005.
300			_axi, 342 p.: _bill.; _c25 cm.
500			_aincludes bibliographical references and index
520			_a This groundbreaking book is a contemporary global synthesis of the rapidly developing and important field of insect conservation biology. Insects play important roles in terrestrial ecological processes and in maintaining the world as we know it. They present particular conservation challenges, especially as a quarter face extinction within the next few decades. This textbook addresses the ethical foundation of insect conservation, and asks why should we concern ourselves with conservation of a butterfly, beetle or bug? The success of insects and their diversity, which have survived glaciers, is now facing a more formidable obstacle: the meteoric impact of humans. After addressing threats, from invasive alien plants to climate change, the book explores ways insects and their habitats are prioritised, mapped, monitored and conserved. Landscape and species approaches are considered. This book is for undergraduates, postgraduates, researchers and managers in conservation biology or entomology, and the wider biological and environmental sciences.
650			_2Sience _aInsect diversity conservation
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