Insect conservation
Subtitle: past, present and prospects
By: Tim R. New, editor
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Dordrecht; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 435
ISBN-13: 9789400729629
Subjects: Insects; Conservation; History; Cross-cultural studies; Biodiversity conservation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to insect conservation, an emerging discipline / Tim R. New; title: Insect conservation in the United Kingdom - the role of the Joint Committee for the Conservation of British Insects and Invertebrate Link (JCCBI) / Michael G. Morris and Oliver D. Cheesman; title: A history of invertebrate conservation in the British statutory conservation agencies / Ian F.G. McLean and Roger S. Key; title: The development of Buglife - the Invertebrate Conservation Trust / Alan Stubbs and Matt Shardlow; title: Insect conservation in the United Kingdom - the Amateur Entomologists' Society / David Lonsdale; title: Butterfly conservation : the development of a pioneering charity / Martin Warren; title: The origins and history of insect conservation in the United States / Robert Michael Pyle; title: Insect conservation and the Endangered Species Act : a history / Scott Hoffman Black; title: Insect conservation in Australia / Tim R. New and Alan L. Yen; title: Insect conservation in New Zealand : an historical perspective / Corinne Watts, Ian Stringer, and George Gibbs; title: Development and future of insect conservation in South Africa / Michael J. Samways, Michelle Hamer, and Ruan Veldtman; title: Lepidopterology in southern Africa : past, present and future / Jonathan B. Ball; title: Insect conservation developments in Central Europe / Karel Spitzer; title: Development and future of conservation policy initiatives for insects and other invertebrates in Europe / John R. Haslett; title: Development and future of insect conservation in Japan / Minoru Ishii and Yasuhiro Nakamura; title: Development of insect conservation in Hawai'i / Francis G. Howarth and Betsy H. Gagné; title: Insect conservation biology : what can we learn from ornithology and birding? / David L. Pearson and Fabio Cassola; title: Where to next? : the future of insect conservation / Alan J.A. Stewart; title: Developing insect conservation : concluding thoughts / Tim R. New..