Insect conservation and Australia's inland waters / Tim R. New.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

New, Tim R., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conservation biology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XIV, 303 p. 45 illus.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2020.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2020]

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.

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

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

4. Monitoring freshwater macroinvertebrates

4.1. Scope and needs for assessments

5. Threats: the background variations in condition

5.1. Introduction

5.2. Drought

5.3. Flood

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

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

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

9. Australia’s flagship freshwater insects

9.1. Introduction

9.2. Selected flagship taxa

10. Ecology and management

10.1. Introduction

10.2. Dispersal

10.2.1. Impacts of urban lighting

10.2.2. Pond colonization

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

Appendix 1

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-030-57008-8