Invertebrate Conservation: Challenges and Ways Forward
A special issue of Insects (ISSN 2075-4450). This special issue belongs to the section "Other Arthropods and General Topics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2024) | Viewed by 10356
Special Issue Editor
2. D'Estrees Entomology & Science Services, Kingscote, SA 5223, Australia
3. South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia
Interests: insect ecology and conservation; insect–plant interactions; insect molecular biology; parasitology; taxonomy
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Invertebrates have long been recognized as having immense ecological and economic importance. In recent times, however, there have been increasing reports of declining invertebrate abundance and diversity at differing spatial scales, and this is reflected in increasing scientific exploration of such declines. There is now an emerging field of science related to invertebrate conservation which not only includes studies of changes in species' populations or biodiversity, but also of the drivers of these changes and methods for mitigating their effects.
Some broad ecological threats have been identified, such as vegetation clearance and fragmentation, land use change, pesticides use, and a rapidly warming atmosphere. In some cases, studies have investigated the effect of specific events on invertebrate populations, such as the 2019–2020 Black Summer fires in Australia. Increasingly, innovative ways of protecting invertebrates are being examined, including the development of species-specific management plans, translocation, ex-situ breeding, improved monitoring, and legislative changes.
The scope of the Special Issue is original research or reviews relating to invertebrate conservation. This could include but is not limited to:
- evidence of invertebrate declines (or increases);
- evidence regarding threatening processes and their mitigation;
- specific case studies in invertebrate conservation;
- emerging topics in invertebrate conservation;
- novel technology or approaches for invertebrate conservation or assessment of current methods;
- conservation ecology;
- co-extinctions;
- effects of fire, climate warming, light, pesticides and pathogens on individual species or communities;
- methods for predicting vulnerable species including and trait-based assessments;
- invertebrate abundance and biomass assessments;
- invertebrate monitoring for conservation;
- long term monitoring of invertebrates;
- definition, assessment or comparison of statistics/modelling approaches to determine population size, compare invertebrate communities, determine range, determine presence/absence, predict effects of management actions etc.
- regulatory/legislative issues surrounding conservation.
Dr. Richard V. Glatz
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- invertebrate conservation
- invertebrate monitoring
- ecology
- invertebrate decline
- threatening processes
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