R. Clemmons / Richard Buchholz (eds.)

Behavioral Approaches to Conservation in the Wild

Herausgeber: Buchholz, Richard; Clemmons, Janine R.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Today's conservation literature emphasizes landscape ecology and population genetics without addressing the behavioral links that enable the long-term survival of populations. This book presents theoretical and practical arguments for considering behavior patterns in attempts to conserve biodiversity. Prominent scientists and wildlife managers are brought together in this volume to address a number of issues, including the limits and potentials of behavioral research to conservation, the importance of behavioral variation as a component of biodiversity, and the use of animal behavior to solve conservation problems and provide specific direction for research and management practices. The book is unique in emphasizing conservation of wild populations as opposed to captive and reintroduced populations, where behavioral research has concentrated in the past. The variety of expertise in this volume demonstrates that the complete ethological framework, not just behavioral ecology, provides valuable techniques and knowledge for conserving biodiversity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9780521580540
• ISBN-10: 0521580544
• Artikelnr.: 22565600

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors; Preface; General acknowledgments; Part I. Problems
and Issues: 1. Linking conservation and behavior Janine R. Clemmons and
Richard Buchholz; 2. Integrating behavior into conservation biology:
potentials and limitations Steven R. Beissinger; 3. Why hire a behaviorist
into a conservation or management team? Peter Arcese, Lukas F. Keller and
John R. Cary; 4. Conservation, behavior and 99% of the world's
biodiversity: is our ignorance really bliss? Hugh Dingle, Scott P. Carroll
and Jenella E. Loye; Part II. Conservation and the Four Levels of
Behavioral Study: 5. Environmental stress, field endocrinology and
conservation biology John C. Wingfield, Kathleen Hunt, Creagh Breuner, Kent
Dunlap, Gene S. Fowler, Leonard Freed and Jaan Lepson; 6. Conservation and
the ontogeny of behavior Ian G. McLean; 7. Hatching asynchrony in parrots:
boon or bane for sustainable use? Scott H. Stoleson and Steven R.
Beissinger; 8. Behavioral variation: a valuable but neglected biodiversity
Richard Buchholz and Janine R. Clemmons; Part III. Examples and Case
Studies: 9. Bioacoustics as a tool in conservation studies Luis F. Baptista
and Sandra L. L. Gaunt; 10. Mating systems, effective population size and
conservation of natural populations Patricia G. Parker and Thomas A. Waite;
11. The importance of social behavior studies for conservation Jan Komdeur
and Charlotte Deerenberg; 12. Linking environmental toxicology, ethology
and conservation Edmund H. Smith and Dennis T. Logan; 13. The problem of
photopollution for sea turtles and other nocturnal animals Blair E.
Witherington; 14. Light, behavior and conservation of forest-dwelling
organisms John A. Endler; 15. On becoming a conservation biologist:
autobiography and advice Katherine Ralls; Author acknowledgments; Index.