This book provides a mechanistic understanding of biotic responses to climate change, in order to better inform conservation and management strategies. Incorporating modeling and real-world examples from diverse taxa, ecosystems, and spatio-temporal scales, the book first presen…
Sea otter conservation
Sea otters are good indicators of ocean health. In addition, they are a keystone species, offering a stabilizing effect on ecosystem, controlling sea urchin populations that would otherwise inflict damage to kelp forest ecosystems. The kelp forest ecosystem is crucial for marine…
In the face of ever-declining biodiversity, zoos have a major role to play in species conservation. The book is a critical assessment of the contribution of zoos to species conservation through evidence amassed from a wide range of sources. The first part outlines the biodiversi…
Drawing on accounts from India to Africa and California to Tennessee, and on research in neuroscience, psychology, and animal behavior, G. A. Bradshaw explores the minds, emotions, and lives of elephants. Wars, starvation, mass culls, poaching, and habitat loss have reduced elep…
Planet Without Apes demands that we consider whether we can live with the consequences of wiping our closest relatives off the face of the Earth. The author warns that extinction of the great apes—chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans—threatens to become a reality with…
An introduction to primate conservation
This work provides a comprehensive and state-of-the-art synthesis of research principles and applied management practices for primate conservation.
Funded by DSU Title III 2007-2012.
The first major compilation of statistical methods for analyzing sex, age and population data in wildlife investigations.
"This book looks at India's wilderness over two centuries. It records the efforts to save the fragile remnants of India's vanishing wildlife and traces the history of wildlife and forests to understand some of the challenges to the survival of India's wilderness in the twenty-fi…
How can we best protect the world's biodiversity in the face of the growing human population? This question is the central theme of contemporary conservation biology. The protection of biodiversity from overuse by fencing it off from the surrounding landscape is one of the conse…
The status of many carnivore populations is of growing concern to scientists and conservationists, making the need for data pertaining to carnivore distribution, abundance, and habitat use ever more pressing. Recent developments in "noninvasive" research techniques - those that…
Richard B. Harris draws on twenty years of experience working in China, and incorporates perspectives ranging from biology through Chinese history and tradition, to interpret wildlife conservation issues in a cultural context. In non-technical language, Harris shows that, partic…
Until now, the research of applied zooarchaeologists has not had a significant impact on the work of conservation scientists. This book is designed to show how zooarchaeology can productively inform conservation science. It offers a set of case studies that use animal remains …
Descriptions, maps, illustrations and tables of British Columbia's biogeoclimatic zones, as well as an overview of how the biogeoclimatic zone system was developed.