Contents
1 Fire ecology and insect ecology
1.1 Introduction: a perspective of fires
1.2 Fire regimes
1.3 Pyromes
1.4 Plant responses to fire
1.5 Mosaics
1.6 Refuges
1.7 Habitat
1.8 Integration
2 Insect responses to fire
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Impacts and responses
2.3 Pyrophilous insects
2.4 Recovery from fire
2.5 The variety of studies
2.6 Interpreting the outcomes
2.7 Focal groups
3 Sampling and study techniques
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Methods
3.3 Problems with rare species
4 Ecological impacts of fires on insects 4.1 Introduction
4.2 Gradients in herbivory
4.3 Plant vigour
4.4 Interpreting change
4.5 Impacts on freshwater insects
4.6 Climate and scale
4.7 Opportunism: learning from accidents
5 Fires and insect pest management
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Forest pests
5.3 Rangeland pests
5.4 Saproxylic insects
5.5 Invasive ants
6 Fire in threatened species conservation management
6.1 Introduction
6.2 General lessons from examples
6.3 Species: some cases
7 Fire and insect assemblages
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Representative assemblages
7.3 Changes and comparisons
8 Fire as a management component
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Fire in wider management
8.3 Untangling effects
8.4 Fire retardants
8.5 Fire suppression
9 Prospects
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Natural disturbance?
9.3 Prospects for protocols
References
Index
About the Author: Emeritus Professor Tim New is an entomologist with broad interests in insect systematics, ecology and conservation. For long based at La Trobe University, Melbourne, he has travelled widely to collect and study insects in many parts of the world, and his extensive publications on these topics include about 40 books. He is recognised globally as one of the leading advocates for insect conservation.
