Download or read book The distribution of beetles in some upland habitat types written by A. Buse and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Field Guide to the Tiger Beetles of the United States and Canada written by David L. Pearson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 2600 species of tiger beetles are found all over the world. In North America there are 116 species of tiger beetle, divided into 153 geographically distinct races. Detailed studies of their natural history, population dynamics, communities, patterns of worldwide species richness, and taxonomy of particular subgroups have produced much information. Tiger beetles are among the most widely investigated groups of insects, especially in terms of their ecology and geographic distribution. The first edition of A Field Guide to the Tiger Beetles of the United States and Canada, published in 2005, has served as a field and natural-history guide to all known species of tiger beetles found in North America above the Mexican border. The 2nd edition is a pleasant and comprehensible handbook of the identification, distribution, natural history, and habitat details of the 116 species of tiger beetles in North America. The updated handbook provides new information including observations of seasonality, range extensions and biology, a newly developed list of common names, and twenty-five artistically pleasing identification color plates. The second edition of A Field Guide to the Tiger Beetles of the United States and Canada provides essential information to recognize and easily identify tiger beetles for established naturalists and outdoor enthusiasts alike.
Download or read book Tehachapi Upland Multi species Habitat Conservation Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Upland Habitats written by Alan F. Fielding and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-31 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upland Habitats presents a comprehensive illustrated guide to the habits wildlife and conservation of Britains last wilderness areas. These include: heather moors, sheep walk deer forest, blanket bogs, montane and sub-montane forests. The book examines the unique characteristics of uplands and the ecological processes and historical events that have shaped them since the end of the last glaciaton. Among the key conservation and management issues explored in are: * modern agricultural practices and economics * habitat degradation through overgrazing * commercial forest plantations * the persecution of wildlife * recreation in the uplands * the funding of upland farming.
Download or read book A Field Guide to the Tiger Beetles of the United States and Canada written by David L. Pearson and published by Oxford : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A color-illustrated field and natural history guide that treats 107 tiger beetle species found in North America above the Mexican border. This work includes biological accounts that emphasize points for identification, behavior, and habitat. Distribution maps show where various species and subspecies can be found.
Download or read book Carabid Beetles in Their Environments written by H.U. Thiele and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the increasing numbers of research workers and groups of investigators devoting themselves to the ecology of carabids I felt that the time had come to take stock of the existing knowledge in this field and to endeavour to weld my personal results and those of other workers into a comprehensive picture. It was with these aims in mind that the following study was conceived. A further goal was to attempt to show to what extent research on carabids can contribute to the larger fields of research encompassing ecology, ethology and evolution. In my opinion the investigations on carabids permit us to draw conclusions of general applicability and, as such, comparable with those made in recent years upon other groups of animals. I am well aware of the risk involved nowadays in attempting, on one's own, to integrate results from a wide variety of scientific disciplines into a meaningful whole, and for this reason I am always grateful for corrections and for additional information. It is impossible for me to mention by name all of the col leagues who have given me their support in the preparation of the book. Reprints of their publications have been placed at my disposal by almost all of the authors cited, as well as by others whose names and works have been omitted merely in order to prevent the book from taking on encyclopedic pro portions. I am nevertheless indebted to them all for their cooperation.
Download or read book The Agroecology of Carabid Beetles written by John Martin Holland and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is only since 1970 that the potential role of carabid beetles in agroecosystems has begun to be appreciated. This volume provides an overview of research literature on this widely distributed and beneficial insect, covering its habitat, its role in pest control and in the diet of farmland wildlife, and its value as a bioindicator.
Download or read book Invertebrates in Freshwater Wetlands written by Darold Batzer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wetlands are among the world’s most valuable and most threatened habitats, and in these crucially important ecosystems, the invertebrate fauna holds a focal position. Most of the biological diversity in wetlands is found within resident invertebrate assemblages, and those invertebrates are the primary trophic link between lower plants and higher vertebrates (e.g. amphibians, fish, and birds). As such, most scientists, managers, consultants, and students who work in the world’s wetlands should become better informed about the invertebrate components in their habitats of interest. Our book serves to fill this need by assembling the world’s most prominent ecologists working on freshwater wetland invertebrates, and having them provide authoritative perspectives on each the world’s most important freshwater wetland types. The initial chapter of the book provides a primer on freshwater wetland invertebrates, including how they are uniquely adapted for life in wetland environments and how they contribute to important ecological functions in wetland ecosystems. The next 15 chapters deal with invertebrates in the major wetlands across the globe (rock pools, alpine ponds, temperate temporary ponds, Mediterranean temporary ponds, turloughs, peatlands, permanent marshes, Great Lakes marshes, Everglades, springs, beaver ponds, temperate floodplains, neotropical floodplains, created wetlands, waterfowl marshes), each chapter written by groups of prominent scientists intimately knowledgeable about the individual wetland types. Each chapter reviews the relevant literature, provides a synthesis of the most important ecological controls on the resident invertebrate fauna, and highlights important conservation concerns. The final chapter synthesizes the 15 habitat-based chapters, providing a macroscopic perspective on natural variation of invertebrate assemblage structure across the world’s wetlands and a paradigm for understanding how global variation and environmental factors shape wetland invertebrate communities.
Download or read book From Plantings to the Paddock written by Katherina Ng and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intensification of agriculture for increased food production is leading to new challenges for biodiversity conservation, particularly managing complex changing landscapes for mutually beneficial outcomes for agriculture and the environment. My thesis aimed to understand the diversity and distribution of beetles (Coleoptera), and the mechanisms shaping beetle assemblages across a dynamic and fragmented agricultural landscape. I used a landscape-scale study in south-eastern Australia to examine beetle assemblages in remnant woodland patches and four types of adjoining farmlands: crop, fallow, plantings, and fine woody debris applied over harvested crop. My thesis comprised four chapters written as journal articles. In Paper I, I examined seasonal differences in beetle assemblages between the woodland interior and four adjoining farmland uses. I found that overall species richness was significantly lower in woodlands than farmlands, although both habitats supported significantly different assemblages. Abundance responses were taxon-specific, and influenced by interactions between land-use and season. These results suggest the importance of maintaining farmland heterogeneity with a mix of low-intensity land-uses, with further agricultural intensification a likely threat to beetle diversity in the region. In Paper II, I examined temporal patterns of edge responses and movement of beetle assemblages between woodlands and the four farmland uses. The use of directional pitfall traps allowed inference of cross-habitat movement. Farmland use and season interactively affected beetle abundance across farmland-woodland edges. Applying woody debris was a novel way of reducing seasonal fluctuations in edge responses and increasing permeability for cross-habitat movement. Edges likely provided resources for beetles in adjoining habitats, but seasonal movement of predators into edges might negatively affect prey assemblages. In Paper III, I quantified relationships between ground-layer structure, plant species richness and plant composition, and the diversity and composition of beetles from different habitats or seasons. Plant composition better predicted beetle composition than vegetation structure. Plant richness and vegetation structure both significantly affected beetle abundance and composition. The influence of these vegetation attributes often varied depending on habitat and season for all trophic groups. These dynamic plant-beetle relationships suggest a need for targeted ways of managing vegetation to improve beetle diversity in different parts of the landscape. In Paper IV, I disentangled the effects of farmland use, edge effects and vegetation structure on the morphological traits of Carabidae species. Carabid body size increased across a distance from edges between woodlands and farmlands, and there were strong mediating effects of farmland use on this association. Vegetation structure was associated with traits relating to body size, flying ability and body shape, and helped explain some of the effects of farmland use and edge effects on body size. These results provide evidence of vegetation- and land-use-mediated filtering of traits as an important factor shaping carabid assemblages in human-modified landscapes. My results indicate that farmlands can provide important habitat for many beetle species. However, spatio-temporal changes in farmland habitat strongly influence beetle assemblages across the landscape. Conservation strategies, therefore, need to take a whole-of-landscape approach, and exploit heterogeneity of mixed-farmlands over space and time to maximise outcomes for biodiversity.
Download or read book Special Reference Briefs written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Factors Influencing Communities of Ground Beetles Coleoptera Carabidae in Plantation Forests written by Catherine Hawes and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wildlife Conservation in Managed Woodlands and Forests written by Esmond Harris and published by Taylor & Francis Group. This book was released on 1997 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two-fold theme of this book - production and wildlife enhancement - is based upon the observations and experience of the authors and their exhaustive survey and summary of the relevant published literature. Much of this has not before been drawn together; it encompasses data from the UK, continental Europe, North America, China and Russia, all visited by the authors. In Britain alone there are two million hectares of productive forest and a considerable area of unmanaged, small, broadleaved woods. Positive management of both will enhance their value to wildlife without reducing their timber-producing potential. This is sustainability, as required by the Rio Summit, both of a renewable resource (timber and wood products) and of the wildlife environment.
Download or read book Beetles of Western North America written by Arthur V. Evans and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beetles are incredibly diverse, with over 23,000 named species in the United States alone. They take on all hues, shapes, and sizes, from the iridescent green of the Western Cedar Borer to the striking red of the Rose Curculio. They can also be found in a wide range of habitats, from cold mountain streams to scorching deserts. Similar to its eastern counterpart, Beetles of Eastern North America, this book is a comprehensive guide to the beetles of the US and Canada that can be found west of the Continental Divide. It covers over 1,400 species across 130 different families. The book begins with a general introduction to beetles, with sections on morphology, behavior and natural history, and conservation, as well as information on how to find and photograph beetles. After the introduction, there is an illustrated key to common beetle families. The family descriptions include information on natural history, collection, identification, common genera and species, and similar families"--
Download or read book Carabid Beetles Ecology and Evolution written by K. Desender and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Carabidae form one of the largest and best studied families of insects, occurring in nearly every terrestrial habitat. The contributions included in this book cover a broad spectrum of recent research into this beetle family, with an emphasis on various aspects of ecology and evolution. They deal both with individual carabid species, for example in studies on population and reproductive biology or life history in general, and with ground beetle communities, as exemplified in papers treating assemblages in natural habitats, on agricultural land and in forests. Disciplines range from biogeography and faunistics, over morphology, taxonomy and phylogenetics, ecophysiology and functional ecology, to population, community, conservation and landscape ecology. This volume is the result of the 8th European Carabidologists' Meeting, 2nd International Symposium of Carabidology, September 1-4, 1992, Belgium.
Download or read book Carabid Beetles in Their Environments written by Hans Ulrich Thiele and published by Springer. This book was released on 1977 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the increasing numbers of research workers and groups of investigators devoting themselves to the ecology of carabids I felt that the time had come to take stock of the existing knowledge in this field and to endeavour to weld my personal results and those of other workers into a comprehensive picture. It was with these aims in mind that the following study was conceived. A further goal was to attempt to show to what extent research on carabids can contribute to the larger fields of research encompassing ecology, ethology and evolution. In my opinion the investigations on carabids permit us to draw conclusions of general applicability and, as such, comparable with those made in recent years upon other groups of animals. I am well aware of the risk involved nowadays in attempting, on one's own, to integrate results from a wide variety of scientific disciplines into a meaningful whole, and for this reason I am always grateful for corrections and for additional information. It is impossible for me to mention by name all of the col leagues who have given me their support in the preparation of the book. Reprints of their publications have been placed at my disposal by almost all of the authors cited, as well as by others whose names and works have been omitted merely in order to prevent the book from taking on encyclopedic pro portions. I am nevertheless indebted to them all for their cooperation.
Download or read book Tiger Beetles of the Southeastern United States written by Robert Gifford Beaton and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This "dual purpose monograph and field guide" combines the most recent data and taxonomic classification for tiger beetles in the Southeast with stunning close-up photographs, flight time charts, and distribution maps for a growing audience of enthusiastic amateurs and professionals alike"--
Download or read book Carabid Beetles in Their Environments written by H.U. Thiele and published by Springer. This book was released on 1977-11-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the increasing numbers of research workers and groups of investigators devoting themselves to the ecology of carabids I felt that the time had come to take stock of the existing knowledge in this field and to endeavour to weld my personal results and those of other workers into a comprehensive picture. It was with these aims in mind that the following study was conceived. A further goal was to attempt to show to what extent research on carabids can contribute to the larger fields of research encompassing ecology, ethology and evolution. In my opinion the investigations on carabids permit us to draw conclusions of general applicability and, as such, comparable with those made in recent years upon other groups of animals. I am well aware of the risk involved nowadays in attempting, on one's own, to integrate results from a wide variety of scientific disciplines into a meaningful whole, and for this reason I am always grateful for corrections and for additional information. It is impossible for me to mention by name all of the col leagues who have given me their support in the preparation of the book. Reprints of their publications have been placed at my disposal by almost all of the authors cited, as well as by others whose names and works have been omitted merely in order to prevent the book from taking on encyclopedic pro portions. I am nevertheless indebted to them all for their cooperation.
