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Biological Conservation in the 21st Century - A Conservation Biology of Large Wildlife (Hardcover)
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Biological Conservation in the 21st Century - A Conservation Biology of Large Wildlife (Hardcover)
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This edited book, composed of chapters written by scholars of the
environmental and biological sciences, examines selected topics
from the vast field of conservation biology, with a focus on some
of the issues that dominate the current discourses and practices on
the conservation biology of large wildlife. The first chapter
examines the history and status of conservation biology and
examines the status of large wildlife in conservation biology
research. The second chapter examines the issues related to urban
forestry and conservation, justified by the vast expansion of urban
landcover into the habitats of large wildlife and the consequences
for people and animals. Chapters Three and Four focus on big cats
in the Americas and apply ideas from the theory of conservation
biology to assess their conservation possibilities. Chapter Five
examines the land cover conflicts that occur between people and
animals when transportation networks intrude on habitats. Chapter
Six looks at the nuances of governance and the impact on
conservation policy. Chapter Seven describes the value of
integrated research and geomatics in the applications to protected
management. Chapter Eight takes a novel, total ecosystem approach
by examining micro- and meso-fauna and their function in ecosystems
inclusive of macro-fauna. Chapter Nine takes a case study of
vultures, which are the most important scavengers in the world, and
examines the impacts of recent diseases that severely decimated
their numbers. Chapter Ten takes a case study of a unique savanna
area on the forested West African coast, and investigates the
ecology of the area and the factors for the extinction of large
wildlife.
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