Insects, Fire and Conservation
This global synthesis of information on impacts of wildfires and prescribed burning on insect species and assemblages brings together examples from many parts of the world, and from many different environments and production systems. It demonstrates
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Insects, Fire and Conservation
Insects, Fire and Conservation
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Tim R. New
Insects, Fire and Conservation
Tim R. New Department of Zoology La Trobe University Melbourne Victoria, Australia
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Preface
The profound impacts of fire on natural ecosystems have moulded many aspects of life on Earth, but many of these effects remain poorly understood, other than in the most general terms. Contributors to the voluminous, and expanding, literature on ‘fire ecology’ have formulated and discussed numerous suggested paradigms on the roles of fire, but many workers support the two major hypotheses of Pausas and Keeley (2009) that ‘(a) the world cannot be understood without considering fire, because fire has strong ecological, and evolutionary consequences for biota, including humans; and (b) . . .. people have heavily influenced fire regimes, often in ways that greatly affect the sustainability of some ecosystems’. These human manipulations, widespread and often purport
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