An Introduction to Conservation Biology

15.05.2016

Englisch

9781605354736

Sinauer Associates

Nein

Richard B. Primack

Taschenbuch

Richard B. Primack is a Professor in the Biology Department at Boston University. He received his B.A. at Harvard University in 1972 and his Ph.D. at Duke University in 1976, and then was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Canterbury and Harvard University. He has served as a visiting professor at the University of Hong Kong, Tokyo University, and the Northeast Forestry University in China, and has been awarded Bullard and Putnam Fellowships from Harvard University, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and Humboldt Fellowship from the German government. Dr. Primack was President of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, and is currently Editor-in-Chief of the journal Biological Conservation. Thirty-four foreign-language editions of his conservation biology textbooks (the Essentials and the shorter Primer of Conservation Biology) have been produced, with local coauthors. He is an author of rain forest books, most recently Tropical Rain Forests: An Ecological and Biogeographical Comparison (with Richard Corlett). Dr. Primack's research interests include: climate change biology; the loss of species in protected areas; tropical ecology; and conservation education. He has recently completed a popular book about the impacts of climate change, titled Walden Warming: Climate Change Comes to Thoreau's Woods.

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1. Defining Conservation Biology.- 2. What Is Biodiversity?.- 3. The Value of Biodiversity.- 4. Threats to Biodiversity.- 5. Extinction Is Forever.- 6. Conserving Populations and Species.- 7. Bringing Populations and Species Back from the Brink.- 8. Protected Areas.- 9. Conservation outside Protected Areas.- 10. Restoration Ecology.- 11. The Challenge of Sustainable Development.- 12. The Future of Conservation.

235 mm

15.5 cm