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Insect conservation and Australia's Inland Waters
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Insect conservation and Australia's Inland Waters [electronic resource] / by Tim R. New.
ISBN
9783030570088
Edition
1st ed. 2020.
Publication
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2020.
Physical Description
1 online resource (XIV, 303 p.) 45 illus.
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Summary
The inland waters of Australia, and their largely endemic insect inhabitants, are subject to a wide and increasing variety of threats that continue to change those environments and lead to losses of insect habitats and localised taxa. Many of those changes result from human needs for water and measures to assure supply in naturally varied flood/drought regimes on which anthropogenic changes are imposed, and to which aquatic biota are increasingly susceptible. This book is a broad overview of Australian aquatic insects, the problems they face as changes to key habitats occur, and measures by which their survival may be enhanced through practical conservation. As well as summarising the current conservation interest in aquatic insects in Australia, the text draws on information and case histories from many parts of the world to augment the generally more limited information from Australian taxa and their needs, to facilitate use and perspective on conservation practice by non-specialist conservation managers, whilst also being of value to entomologists interested more directly in aquatic insect ecology and conservation .The numerous references to many taxa, regions and ecological contexts provide examples for possible emulation in Australia, and summarises many practical lessons relevant to honing effective conservation across the range from individual threatened species to the more complex protection or restoration of aquatic communities in which insects play significant functional roles.
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Language
English
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December 04, 2020
Contents
1. Introduction: aquatic insects in Australia's environments
1.1. The background to concern
References
2. Major habitats
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Ponds and lakes
2.3. Streams and rivers
References
3. Australian inland waters
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Waterfalls
3.3. Subterranean aquifers
3.4. Rock pools
3.5. Mound springs
3.6. Lakes
3.7. Billabongs
3.8. Streams and rivers
3.9. Exposed riverine sediments
References
4. Monitoring freshwater macroinvertebrates
4.1. Scope and needs for assessments
References
5. Threats: the background variations in condition
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Drought
5.3. Flood
References
6. Major imposed threats
6.1. Introduction
6.2. Water temperature
6.3. Sedimentation
6.3.1. Mining
6.4. Pollution
6.5. Salinisation
6.6. Exploitation
6.7. Electrofishing
6.8. Changes to riparian vegetation
6.8.1. Emergent vegetation
6.9. Alien species
6.9.1. Plants
6.9.2. Fish
6.9.3. Mammals
6.10. River regulation
6.11. Fire
6.12. Urbanisation
6.13. Recreation
6.14. Ecological traps
6.15. Climate change
References
7. Macroinvertebrates of inland waters
7.1. Introduction
7.2. The variety of aquatic insects
7.3. Other macroinvertebrates
7.3.1. Crustaceans
7.3.2. Molluscs
References
8. Insects of Australia's inland waters
8.1. Introduction
8.2. Ephemeroptera
8.3. Odonata
8.4. Plecoptera
8.5. Hemiptera
8.6. Coleoptera
8.7. Mecoptera
8.8. Megaloptera
8.9. Neuroptera
8.10. Lepidoptera
8.11. Trichoptera
8.12. Diptera
8.12.1. Control of aquatic pest flies
References
9. Australia's flagship freshwater insects
9.1. Introduction
9.2. Selected flagship taxa
References
10. Ecology and management
10.1. Introduction
10.2. Dispersal
10.2.1. Impacts of urban lighting
10.2.2. Pond colonization
References
11. Conservation
11.1. Introduction
11.2. Protected areas
11.3. Management and restoration
11.4. Fish conservation
11.5. Education and involvement
11.6. Artificial water bodies
11.7. Temporary ponds
11.8. Intermittent streams
11.9. Stormwater retention ponds
11.10. Refuges
11.11. Woody debris
11.12. Riparian zones
11.13. Perspective and prospects
References
Appendix 1
Index.
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