Practical Conservation Biology

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Practical Conservation Biology
Author: Mark Burgman, David Lindenmayer

Pages: 624
Publisher: --
Edition: 2006
Language: English
ISBN: 978-0643090897

Description

The book reflects the latest thinking on key topics such as extinction risks, losses of genetic variability, threatening processes, fire effects, landscape fragmentation, habitat loss and vegetation clearing, reserve design, sustainable harvesting of natural populations, population viability analysis, risk assessment, conservation biology policy, human population growth and its impacts on biodiversity.

CONTENTS:

PART I: PRINCIPLES FOR CONSERVATION
Why conserve?
What should be conserved?
Conservation status: classification of threat
Protected areas, off-reserve conservation and managed populations

PART II: IMPACTS
Changes in the physical environment
Loss of genetic diversity, populations and species
Changes in species distributions and abundances
Harvesting natural populations
Vegetation loss and degradation
Landscapes and habitat fragmentation
Fire and biodiversity
Demands of the human population

PART III: METHODS OF ANALYSIS
Measuring, managing and using genetic variation
Measuring diversity
Identifying habitat
Reserve design
Monitoring, assessment and indicators
Risk assessment

PART IV: MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES FOR CONSERVATION
Sustainability and management

Appendix I: Taxonomic names
Appendix II: Glossary