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Series Editor
Marie-Christine Maurel
The Terrestrial Macroinvertebrates of the Sub-Antarctic Îles Kerguelen and Île de la Possession
Maurice Hullé
Philippe Vernon
with the collaboration of
Bernard Chaubet
Damien Fourcy
Romain Georges
Christelle Buchard
First published 2021 in Great Britain and the United States by ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, this publication may only be reproduced, stored or transmitted, in any form or by any means, with the prior permission in writing of the publishers, or in the case of reprographic reproduction in accordance with the terms and licenses issued by the CLA. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside these terms should be sent to the publishers at the undermentioned address:
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The rights of Maurice Hullé and Philippe Vernon to be identified as the authors of this work have been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
Library of Congress Control Number: 2021937387
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ISBN 978-1-78630-760-6
Photography: Bernard Chaubet (INRAE)
Cartography: Damien Fourcy (INRAE)
Species identification: Romain Georges (University of Rennes 1), Christelle Buchard (INRAE)
Foreword 1
The extraordinary American conservationist and thinker Aldo Leopold wrote: “To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.” To keep every cog and wheel presupposes that each one of them is not only known but can also be identified. For most places, knowing the full diversity of life is only imaginable. And for most people, identifying that diversity is unthinkable. Yet, a few specially endowed naturalists seem to be able to do so. And because they are often too little valued in our modern scientific world, their knowledge passes with them into history. Thus, places and the people who value them frequently fall into a cycle of knowing and forgetting.
Yet, every now and then, naturalists and writers come along who are determined to break that cycle. They recruit, through a combination of tenacity, charm and a fierce love for a place and its diversity, a host of helpers. Spurred on by the positive feedback that comes from enthusiasm, they recruit even more extensively. Eventually, they deliver a monograph of life. A record of a place’s diversity and the means for others to know it in all of its exquisite detail. In doing so, they make forever known a part of our world that would otherwise have remained trapped in that cycle of light and dark.
Here, Maurice Hullé and Philippe Vernon have done just this for the larger invertebrates of the extraordinary sub-Antarctic islands of the Îles Kerguelen and the Île de la Possession.
Doing so could not have been easy. Scattered knowledge is one thing. But finding the animals
