Development and Future of Insect Conservation in South Africa

Samways, Michael J.; Hamer, Michelle; Veldtman, Ruan

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-2963-6_11

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“…Habitat loss by destruction or degradation are not surprisingly the worst threats as many other authors have attested (Pyle et al 1981;Larsen 1995;Pullin 1995;New 1997;Edge 2005a;Ball 2006;Henning et al 2009;New 2009;Terblanche and Henning 2009;Van Swaay et al 2009;Samways et al 2012;New 2012;Edge et al 2013a;New 2014). The effects on butterfly populations are exacerbated by fragmentation of suitable habitat, which disconnects metapopulations and subjects the smaller resulting populations to genetic isolation and vulnerability to stochastic events.…”

Section: Threats To South African Butterfliesmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…Despite a paucity of publications in indexed journals or books on the conservation of the African butterfly fauna (but see Larsen 1995;Sáfián et al 2011;Ball 2012;Samways et al 2012), over the last 20 years, enormous strides have been made towards the conservation of the southern African butterflies.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The atlas area has a very high species density (0.54 species per 1,000 km 2 ) compared to the world average [18 000 species in 132 million km 2 = 0.14 species per km 2 (Williams 2014)]. This high species density may be in part because southern Africa has been well explored by lepidopterists (Ball 2012), but is also an indication of the global importance of this region, not only for insects (Samways et al 2012) but also for its floral biodiversity (Germishuizen et al 2006;Mucina and Rutherford 2006;Raimondo et al 2009;Ball 2012). South Africa is one of only two countries in the world that hosts three of the 34 global biodiversity hotspots, namely the Cape Floristic Region, the Succulent Karoo and the Maputoland-PondolandAlbany Region (Ball 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Butterfly conservation in Southern Africa

Edge

Mecenero

2015

J Insect Conserv

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Butterfly conservation in Southern Africa

Edge

Mecenero

2015

J Insect Conserv

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“…seasonal patterns), and their life cycle that comprises both aquatic and terrestrial environments (DJIKSTRA, 2014). The insects are one of the most diverse and well-studied organisms, and its importance to the environment has been tested and confirmed by several studies worldwide (BORROR et al, 1989;NAKAMURA, 2011;SAMWAYS et al, 2012;BISCHOF et al, 2012;DEL-CLARO et al, 2013b).…”

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confidence: 91%

The odonata community of a brazilian vereda: seasonal patterns, species diversity and rarity in a palm swamp environment

Vilela¹,

Ferreira²,

Del‐Claro³

2016

Biosci. J.

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ABSTRACT:Studies concerning the occurrence of species and seasonality are of great importance for both the elucidation of species distribution and conservation of natural habitats. We performed a survey of Odonata species and studied their seasonality in an endemic endangered palm swamp (i.e. Veredas) environment of the Ecological Reserve of Clube de Caça e Pesca Itororó de Uberlândia, Southestern Brazil. Between July 2010 and June 2011, we recorded 31 species of five different families and 21 genera. The community was strongly seasonal, since 24 species occurred in the wet season, while ten occurred in both dry and wet season, and only two species occured only in the dry season. All Anisoptera species preferred lentic habitats, whereas seven of the 18 Zygopera species preferred lentic habitats and 11 species preferred lotic sites. The five Calopterygidae and Protoneuridae species preferred lotic habitats. The study site exhibits a great diversity of dragonflies and damselflies, which are important elements of the trophic chain in the Cerrado aquatic and neighboring land environments. This justifies the development of conservation actions in palm swamp areas, which are poorly known and threatened by the constant advance of urban, monoculture and pasture areas in Cerrado.

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“…A similar situation is evident in South Africa (Samways et al . ), also with a very large and diverse insect fauna. The globally recognised ‘hot spots’ of diversity in the Mediterranean regions of South Africa and Australia have many parallel features of richness, endemism and vulnerability.…”

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Insect conservation in the southern temperate zones: an overview

New

Samways

2013

Austral Entomology

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Insect conservation in the southern hemisphere lags substantially behind developments in parts of Europe and North America, where the relatively small faunas are better documented, and where a historical culture of natural history has enabled conservation needs to be assessed and addressed by many sympathetic supporters. We contrast this scenario with the much more embryonic knowledge and capability available in Australia, southern Africa, southern South America and New Zealand, all regions with large and incompletely documented insect faunas, but an equivalent array of threats to their survival. While a few individual 'flagship species' (mainly within Lepidoptera, Orthoptera and Coleoptera) have been critical in promoting wider interests, in general insects do not signify highly on regional conservation agendas. We offer a perspective of the major needs to counter this.

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Development and Future of Insect Conservation in South Africa

Cited by 13 publications

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Butterfly conservation in Southern Africa

Butterfly conservation in Southern Africa

The odonata community of a brazilian vereda: seasonal patterns, species diversity and rarity in a palm swamp environment

Insect conservation in the southern temperate zones: an overview

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