Essentials of conservation biology / Richard B. Primack
Material type: TextPublication details: Sinauer Associates, USA : 1998Edition: 2nd edDescription: xii, 660 pISBN:- 9780878937219
- 333.9511 P9351
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [612]-639) index
Part 1 : Major Issues That Define The Discipline
1. That is conservation biology?
2. What is biological diversity
3. Where is the world’s biological diversity found?
Part 2 : Valuing Biodiversity
4. What is the value of biological diversity?
5. Indirect economic values
6. Ethical values
Part 3 : Threats To Biological Diversity
7. Extinction
8. Vulnerability to extinction
9. Habitat destruction, fragmentation and degradation
10. Overexploitation, exotic species, and disease
Part 4 : Conservation At The Population And Species Levels
11. Problems of small populations
12. Applied population biology
13. Establishing new populations
14. Ex situ conservation strategies
Part 5 : Establishing Protected Areas
15. Designing protected areas
16. Managing protected areas
17. Outside protected areas
18. Restoration ecology
Part 6 : Conservation And Human Societies
19. Conservation and sustainable development at the local and national levels
20. An international approach to conservation and sustainable development
21. An agenda for the future
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