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The Conservation of Predaceous Diving Beetles: Knowns, More Unknowns and More Anecdotes

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Ecology, Systematics, and the Natural History of Predaceous Diving Beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)

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Aspects of the conservation of Dytiscidae are discussed with particular reference to the benefits, potential and realized, associated with ways of conserving species threatened internationally and nationally. Examples are drawn on a global basis, but inevitably with some bias to the predaceous diving beetles of Western Europe endangered by a history of intensification of agriculture, industrialisation and urban sprawl.

Long before we have reached even an elementary knowledge of the distinction of the kinds of ecological phenomena, they may have disappeared, owing to the continual erosion of nature that is characteristic of our era.

G. Evelyn Hutchinson (1978), “Father of modern ecology” and in Frank Balfour-Browne’s undergraduate class of 1922

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We are grateful to Anders Nilsson and Lars Hendrich, maestri of Dytiscidae, for their advice, and also to those permitting the use of illustrations, as named in the figure captions. Mariano Michat and Gabriel Macchia kindly commented on the status of Mediorhantus orbignyi. We also thank Hans Fery for some deft editing, though any remaining errors must remain our responsibility.

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Foster, G.N., Bilton, D.T. (2023). The Conservation of Predaceous Diving Beetles: Knowns, More Unknowns and More Anecdotes. In: Yee, D.A. (eds) Ecology, Systematics, and the Natural History of Predaceous Diving Beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-01245-7_12

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