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- Unique current overview of the relationship between humans and insects
- Well-researched numbers and correlations
- Highlighting the value and threats of insects, while showing their growing endangerment
- Fascinating facts, contexts and background information
Part of the book series: Fascinating Life Sciences (FLS)
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What exactly is our relationship with insects? Are they more beneficial or harmful? What role do they play in the world? What are the effects of climate change: Will the number of insects continue to increase? This book discusses the beneficial and harmful effects of insects and explains their development and significance for biodiversity.
This second, fully reviewed and enlarged, edition provides new insights, especially about the value of specific insect species that are generally seen as pests (e.g. ants and moths), as well as an extended chapter on the development of insects and especially their decline in different regions in the world, the industrialized countries in particular. Numerous info graphics show connections between changes in the environment due to human expansion and the number of insects and species. Studies from the US, Canada, Asia, Africa, Europe and Switzerland are used to point out the dramatic reduction of biodiversity. New tables illustrate these developments. The glossary as well as the insects index is extended, the text, tables, pictures and graphs provide even more well-rounded image. Readers will find the argumentation even more clearly and detailed.
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Book Title: Why Every Fly Counts
Book Subtitle: Value and Endangerment of Insects
Authors: Hans-Dietrich Reckhaus
Series Title: Fascinating Life Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31229-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-31228-2Published: 13 November 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-31229-9Published: 01 November 2019
Series ISSN: 2509-6745
Series E-ISSN: 2509-6753
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XV, 146
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 43 illustrations in colour
Topics: Popular Life Sciences, Entomology, Ecology, Applied Science, multidisciplinary
Industry Sectors: Biotechnology, Consumer Packaged Goods, Engineering, Pharma