Sodhi / Brook / Bradshaw Tropical Conservation Biology

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4443-1110-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten, E-Book

This introductory textbook examines diminishing terrestrial andaquatic habitats in the tropics, covering a broad range of topicsincluding the fate of the coral reefs; the impact of agriculture,urbanization, and logging on habitat depletion; and the effects offire on plants and animal survival.
* * Includes case studies and interviews with prominentconservation scientists to help situate key concepts in a realworld context
* Covers a broad range of topics including: the fate of the coralreefs; the impact of agriculture, urbanization, and logging onhabitat depletion; and the effects of fire on plants and animalsurvival
* Highlights conservation successes in the region, and emphasizesthe need to integrate social issues, such as human hunger, into atangible conservation plan
* Documents the current state of the field as it looks for waysto predict future outcomes and lessen human impact
"Sodhi et al. have done a masterful job of compiling agreat deal of literature from around the tropical realm, and theyhave laid out the book in a fruitful and straightforwardmanner...I plan to use it as a reference and as supplementalreading for several courses and I would encourage others to do thesame." Ecology, 90(4), 2009, pp.1144-1145

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sodhi, Navjot S.

Brook, Barry W.

Bradshaw, Corey J. A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
Acknowledgements.
1. Diminishing habitats in regions of high biodiversity.
2. Invaluable losses.
3. Broken homes: tropical biotas in fragmented landscapes.
4. Burning down the house.
5. Alien invaders.
6. Human uses and abuses of tropical biodiversity.
7. Threats in three dimensions: tropical aquaticconservation.
8. Climate change: feeling the tropical heat.
9. Lost without a trace: the tropical extinction crisis.
10. Lights at the end of the tunnel: conservation options andchallenges.
References.
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Navjot S. Sodhi is Professor at the National University ofSingapore. An associate/subject editor of Conservation Biology, theAuk, and Biotropica, Navjot received his PhD from the University ofSaskatchewan, Canada. A recipient of National Geographic Societygrants, he has also spent time as a Bullard Fellow at HarvardUniversity, where he holds an adjunct associate position.
Barry W. Brook is Professor and Director of the ResearchInstitute for Climate Change and Sustainability at the Universityof Adelaide, Australia. His research interests include climatechange, global ecology and extinction dynamics. Barry serves on theeditorial boards of Ecological Research and Raffles Bulletin ofZoology and is a member of the Australian Research Council Collegeof Experts and F1000 Biology. In 2006 he was awarded the FennerMedal by the Australian Academy of Sciences.
Corey J. A. Bradshaw is Associate Professor and PrincipalResearch Fellow at Charles Darwin University, Australia. He earneda doctoral degree from the University of Otago, New Zealand and hasextensively researched marine and terrestrial vertebratepopulations, with an emphasis on extinction modelling andecological theory. Corey is an Associate Editor for Journal ofAnimal Ecology.