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Maintaining Ecological Integrity and Processes

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Considerable attention has been given to the roles of semi-natural grasslands in sustaining and increasing the diversity of ‘beneficial insects’, notably pollinators and the natural enemies of local or regional crop pests, but with basic ecological processes often treated as secondary to more tangible economic interests. Features of both the grasslands and the local landscape are influential. Again, relevant overseas examples by far outnumber those within Australia, and illustrate many of the important parameters for more local consideration.

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New, T.R. (2019). Maintaining Ecological Integrity and Processes. In: Insect Conservation and Australia’s Grasslands. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22780-7_9

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