Insects, Fire and Conservation

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