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The Significance of Alien Species to Insect Conservation,face of increasing variety of imposed changes, stresses and threats. Anthropogenic changes to natural environments are perhaps most severe in intensive processes related to the large areas subsumed by urbanisation and related industrialisation, agriculture and commercial forestry, in all of which la

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The Stages of Invasion,which they may be linked has drawn increased attention to both recently established species and also to those whose presence is now taken for granted. Many, indeed, are not included in conventional appreciation of ‘a(chǎn)liens – numerous animals and plants originating elsewhere are now parts of the conte

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Alien Insects and Insect Conservation,ut, even for acknowledged pest species, debates can become divisive both in (1) assessing severity of impacts beyond an immediate pest context and (2) the remedial actions needed. The Australian Light brown apple moth (., Tortricidae) in California, where it was recorded first in 2007, is highly pol

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Other Alien Invertebrates,ertebrates are also commonly aliens – and, as for insects, some have considerable ecological or applied importance. Some are vectors of parasites or diseases that can affect native hosts, as in some examples noted below, and their control may entail other impacts. Even for many which pose few assess

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Alien Vertebrates and Insect Conservation,of rats, mice and mustelids on remote islands or other isolated environments such as New Zealand, and impacts of introduced fish, notably trout, on aquatic fauna in Australia. Both have numerous parallels elsewhere. Attempts to locally eradicate such taxa for conservation of notable threatened insec

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Countering Impacts of Alien Species,tions with the native biota they encounter, and give them a substantial collective and central role in insect conservation practice. Writing generally on invasive insects, Liebhold and Tobin (2008) noted that most accidentally introduced species only rarely reach high population levels, and are comm

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Invasions and Insect Conservation,terns’ – but in the intervening years since his essay the variety of examples and of contexts across which many taxa can be appraised have increased considerably. However, the four main foci suggested by Vermeij for seeking generalities (Table 10.1) remain valid, and tantalising in their complexity.