| Description |
x, 254 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Contents note continued: Introduction: Terrestrial Open Habitats -- Grasslands -- Arid Environments -- Mallee Environments -- Further Reading -- 13.Forest Insects -- Introduction: Forest Habitats -- Forest Insects -- Further Reading -- 14.Insects and People in Australia -- Introduction: Interest and Involvement -- Pest Insects -- Further Reading -- 15.Australia's Alien Insects -- Introduction: Variety and Impacts -- Importation and Establishment -- Consequences -- Australian Insects Abroad -- Further Reading -- 16.Conservation -- Introduction: Rationale and Needs for Insect Conservation -- Species Conservation -- Habitat Conservation -- Wider Views -- Further Reading -- 17.Diversity and Its Implications for Understanding Australia's Insects -- Introduction: Relevance of Basic Documentation -- Surveying Diversity -- Increasing Understanding -- References -- Further Reading -- Appendix -- Australia's Insects: The Players -- Apterygota -- Pterygota -- Palaeoptera -- Neoptera -- |
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Contents note continued: Introduction: The Variety of Food and Feeding Habits -- Exploitation or Partnerships? -- Searching for Food -- Insect Herbivores -- Insect Carnivores -- Insect Parasitoids -- Insect Parasites -- Insect Decomposers -- Further Reading -- 7.Insect Behaviour and Lifestyles -- Introduction: Behaviour and Adaptation -- Sensory Mechanisms -- Social Existence -- Further Reading -- 8.Insect Communities -- Introduction: Living Together -- Richness and Variety -- Evolutionary Radiations -- Assessing Richness -- Further Reading -- 9.Insect Populations -- Introduction: Population Size and Structure -- Population Fluctuations -- Further Reading -- 10.Insects in Inland Water Environments -- Introduction: Inland Aquatic Habitats for Insects -- Insect Variety -- Further Reading -- 11.Australia's Alpine Insects -- Introduction: Environmental Extremes -- Alpine Insects -- Further Reading -- 12.Lowland Insects and Their Environments: Non-forest Habitats -- |
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Contents note continued: Polyneptera -- Paraneoptera -- Oligoneoptera |
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Machine generated contents note: 1.The Basic Insect Pattern: Theme and Variations -- Introduction: Insects and Their Close Relatives -- The Insect Body Plan -- Inside Insects -- Further Reading -- 2.Fossils and Major Insect Adaptations -- Introduction: The Process of Insect Evolution -- Wings and Flight -- Wings and Ecology -- Insect Diversification -- Further Reading -- 3.Insect Life Histories -- Introduction: Modes of Development -- Diversification Within Metamorphosis -- Seasonal Development -- Further Reading -- 4.Origins, Distributions and Diversity -- Introduction: Australia as an Environment for Insects -- Insect Species? -- The Yellowish Skipper and Donnysa Skipper, Hesperilla flavescens and H. donnysa -- The Swordgrass Brown, Tisiphone abeona -- Further Reading -- 5.Environments and Habitat for Insects in Australia -- Introduction: Places to Live -- Resources for Insects -- Further Reading -- 6.Foods and Feeding Biology -- |
| Summary |
This book introduces basic entomology, emphasising perspectives on insect diversity important in conservation assessment and setting priorities for management, as a foundation for managers and others without entomological training or background. It bridges the gap between photographic essays on insect identification and more technical texts, to illustrate and discuss many aspects of taxonomic, ecological and evolutionary diversity in the Australian insect fauna, and its impacts in human life, through outlines of many aspects of insect natural history |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Applied ecology.
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Biodiversity -- Australia.
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Conservation biology.
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Entomology.
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Insects -- Conservation.
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Insects -- Variation -- Australia.
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Insects -- Australia.
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Life sciences.
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| LC no. |
2011934968 |
| ISBN |
9400717792 |
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9789400717794 |
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