Conservation biology for all / edited by Navjot S. Sodhi and Paul R. Ehrlich.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sodhi, Navjot S.

Ehrlich, Paul R.

Series:

Oxford biology Conservation biology for all

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conservation biology.

Biodiversity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 p.) pdf file

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

Conservation Biology for All provides cutting-edge but basic conservation science to a global readership. A series of authoritative chapters have been written by the top names in conservation biology with the principal aim of disseminating cutting-edge conservation knowledge as widely as possible. Important topics such as balancing conversion and human needs, climate change, conservation planning, designing and analyzing conservation research, ecosystem services, endangeredspecies management, extinctions, fire, habitat loss, and invasive species are covered. Numerous textboxes describing additions

Contents:

Contents; Dedication; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Introduction; Introduction Box 1: Human population and conservation; Introduction Box 2: Ecoethics; 1: Conservation biology: past and present; 1.1 Historical foundations of conservation biology; Box 1.1: Traditional ecological knowledge and biodiversity conservation; 1.2 Establishing a new interdisciplinary field; 1.3 Consolidation: conservation biology secures its niche; 1.4 Years of growth and evolution; Box 1.2: Conservation in the Philippines; 1.5 Conservation biology: a work in progress; Summary; Suggested reading

Relevant websites 2: Biodiversity; 2.1 How much biodiversity is there?; 2.2 How has biodiversity changed through time?; 2.3 Where is biodiversity?; 2.4 In conclusion; Box 2.1: Invaluable biodiversity inventories; Summary; Suggested reading; Relevant websites; 3: Ecosystem functions and services; 3.1 Climate and the Biogeochemical Cycles; 3.2 Regulation of the Hydrologic Cycle; 3.3 Soils and Erosion; 3.4 Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function; Box 3.1: The costs of large-mammal extinctions; Box 3.2: Carnivore conservation; Box 3.3: Ecosystem services and agroecosystems in a landscape context

3.5 Mobile Links Box 3.4: Conservation of plant-animal mutualisms; Box 3.5: Consequences of pollinator decline for the global food supply; 3.6 Nature's Cures versus Emerging Diseases; 3.7 Valuing Ecosystem Services; Summary; Relevant websites; Acknowledgements; 4: Habitat destruction: death by a thousand cuts; 4.1 Habitat loss and fragmentation; 4.2 Geography of habitat loss; Box 4.1: The changing drivers of tropical deforestation; 4.3 Loss of biomes and ecosystems; Box 4.2: Boreal forest management: harvest, natural disturbance, and climate change; 4.4 Land-use intensification and abandonment

Box 4.3: Human impacts on marine ecosystems Summary; Suggested reading; Relevant websites; 5: Habitat fragmentation and landscape change; 5.1 Understanding the effects of landscape change; 5.2 Biophysical aspects of landscape change; 5.3 Effects of landscape change on species; Box 5.1: Time lags and extinction debt in fragmented landscapes; 5.4 Effects of landscape change on communities; 5.5 Temporal change in fragmented landscapes; 5.6 Conservation in fragmented landscapes; Box 5.2: Gondwana Link: a major landscape reconnection project; Box 5.3: Rewilding; Summary; Suggested reading

Relevant websites 6: Over harvesting; 6.1 A brief history of exploitation; 6.2 Over exploitation in tropical forests; 6.3 Over exploitation in aquatic ecosystems; 6.4 Cascading effects of over exploitation on ecosystems; Box 6.1: The state of fisheries; 6.5 Managing over exploitation; Box 6.2: Managing the exploitation of wildlife in tropical forests; Summary; Relevant websites; 7: Invasive species; Box 7.1: Native invasives; Box 7.2: Invasive species in New Zealand; 7.1 Invasive species impacts; 7.2 Lag times; 7.3 What to do about invasive species; Summary; Suggested reading; Relevant websites

8: Climate change

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9786612730689

9780199554249

0199554242

9780191574252

0191574252

9781282730687

1282730681

9780191720666

0191720666

OCLC:

656425519