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Butterfly Conservation in South-Eastern Australia: Progress and Prospects

:	Tim R. New
:	Butterfly Conservation in South-Eastern Australia: Progress and Prospects
:	Springer-Verlag
:	9789048199266
:	1
:	CHF 126.40
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:	Zoologie
:	English

:	190
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A survey of the development and practice of butterfly conservation in south east Australia, tracing evolution of the science through a series of cases from focus on single subspecies through increasing levels of ecological complexity to critical biotopes and communities. The book summarises much previously scattered information, and provides access to much regional information of considerable interest to practitioners elsewhere.

	Preface	6
	Contents	10
	Part I Setting the Scene: South-Eastern Australia’s Butterflies and Their Conservation	12
	Chapter 1: Australia’s Butterflies: Some Background	13
	1.1 Introduction	13
	1.2 Diversity	14
	1.3 Biogeography	19
	1.4 Collecting and Recording	23
	1.5 Distribution and Conservation Status	29
	Chapter 2: Environments for Butterflies in South Eastern Australia	34
	2.1 Introduction	34
	2.2 Environmental Change	34
	2.3 Threats and Butterfly Declines	37
	2.4 Urbanisation	39
	Chapter 3: Butterflies in Australian Conservation Legislation	44
	3.1 Introduction: History, Development and Reception	44
	3.2 The Butterfly Action Plan	52
	3.3 Consequences of Recognition for Conservation Need	58
	Part II Cases: Subspecies to Communities	62
	Chapter 4: A Wetland Skipper on Sedges: Hesperilla flavescens	63
	4.1 Introduction	63
	4.2 Hesperilla flavescens flavia	64
	4.3 Hesperilla flavescens flavescens	66
	Chapter 5: The Australian Hairstreak, Pseudalmenus chlorinda	74
	5.1 Introduction	74
	5.2 Biology and Conservation	74
	5.3 Discussion	77
	Chapter 6: Tales of Two Coppers, Paralucia spp.	78
	6.1 Introduction	78
	6.2 The Eltham Copper, Paralucia pyrodiscus lucida	78
	6.2.1 Biology	83
	6.2.2 Conservation	86
	6.2.2.1 Larval Counts	87
	6.2.2.2 Adult Counts	88
	6.2.2.3 Threats	89
	6.3 The Bathurst Copper, Paralucia spinifera	94
	6.3.1 Biology	96
	6.3.2 Conservation	98
	6.4 Discussion	103
	Chapter 7: Unity in Richness: Azure Blues (Ogyris spp.) in Patchy Environments	105
	7.1 Introduction	105
	7.2 Biology and Conservation	107
	Chapter 8: Butterflies in a Disappearing Ecosystem: Alpine Satyrinae	113
	8.1 Introduction	113
	8.2 Alpine Butterflies	114
	8.2.1 Oreixenica ptunarra	115
	8.2.2 Oreixenica latialis theddora	120
	Chapter 9: Butterfly Community No. 1	125
	9.1 Introduction	125
	9.2 Mount Piper	125
	9.3 Communities in Legislation and Practice	137
	Part III Lessons Learned, and Future Endeavour	142
	Chapter 10: Building on the Current Foundation	143
	10.1 Introduction	143
	10.2 Taxonomic Uncertainty	143
	10.3 Needs for Conservation	145
	10.4 Fire as a Management Tool	145
	10.5 Conservation and Landscape Issues	148
	10.6 Climate Change	149
	10.7 Expanding Ranges	152
	10.8 Effective Butterfly Conservation	154
	10.9 Towards Management	162
	10.10 The Future	164
	10.11 Lessons from and for Elsewhere	169
	10.12 Broader Regional Context	173
	References	178
	Index	189