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Conservation and monitoring of invertebrates in terrestrial protected areas
Submitted: 05 May 2010 | Published: 09 May 2011
About the author(s)
Melodie A. McGeoch, Cape Research Centre, South African National Parks, Cape Town, South AfricaHendrik Sithole, Savanna and Arid Parks, South African National Parks, Kimberley, South Africa
Michael J. Samways, Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
John P. Simaika, Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
James S. Pryke, Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Mike Picker, Zoology Department, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Charmaine Uys, Zoology Department, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Adrian J. Armstrong, Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Ansie S. Dippenaar-Schoeman, ARC-Plant Protection Research Institute, Pretoria, South Africa
Ian A. Engelbrecht, Gauteng Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Environment, Johannesburg, South Africa
Brigitte Braschler, Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Botany and Zoology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Michelle Hamer, Biosystematics Division, South African National Biodiversity Institute, South Africa
Abstract
Conservation implications: Invertebrates constitute a substantial and functionally significant component of terrestrial biodiversity and are valuable indicators of environmental condition. Although consideration of invertebrates has historically been neglected in conservation planning and management, substantial progress with surveys, systematics and bioindication means that it is now both feasible and advisable to incorporate them into protected area monitoring activities.
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