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The Conservation of Predaceous Diving Beetles: Knowns, Unknowns and 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 the listing of individual species as 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, industrialization, and urbanization.

This is a critical time for organisms living in continental waters.

Naiman (2008)

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We are grateful to Anders Nilsson, maestro of Dytiscidae, for his advice, and also to those permitting the use of illustrations, as named in the figure captions.

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Foster, G.N., Bilton, D.T. (2014). The Conservation of Predaceous Diving Beetles: Knowns, Unknowns and Anecdotes. In: Yee, D. (eds) Ecology, Systematics, and the Natural History of Predaceous Diving Beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9109-0_11

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