Preface PART I. MAJOR ISSUES THAT DEFINE THE DISCIPLINEChapter 1. What Is Conservation Biology?Chapter 2. What Is Biodiversity?Chapter 3. Where Is the World’s Biodiversity Found?PART II. VALUING BIODIVERSITYChapter 4. Ecological EconomicsChapter 5. Indirect Use ValueChapter 6. Ethical ValuesPART III. THREATS TO BIODIVERSITYChapter 7. ExtinctionChapter 8. Vulnerability to ExtinctionChapter 9. Habitat Destruction, Fragmentation, Degradation, and Global Climate ChangeChapter 10. Overexploitation, Invasive Species, and DiseasePART IV. CONSERVATION AT THE POPULATION AND SPECIES LEVELS Chapter 11. Problems of Small PopulationsChapter 12. Applied Population BiologyChapter 13. Establishing New PopulationsChapter 14. Ex Situ Conservation StrategiesPART V. PRACTICAL APPLICATIONSChapter 15. Establishing Protected AreasChapter 16. Designing Networks of Protected AreasChapter 17. Managing Protected AreasChapter 18. Conservation Outside Protected AreasChapter 19. Restoration EcologyPART VI. CONSERVATION AND HUMAN SOCIETIESChapter 20. Conservation and Sustainable Development at the Local and National LevelsChapter 21. An International Approach to Conservation and Sustainable DevelopmentChapter 22. An Agenda for the FutureAppendix: Selected Environmental Organizations and Sources of InformationIllustration CreditsGlossaryBibliographyIndex
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 and Tokyo University, and has been awarded Bullard and
Putnam Fellowships from Harvard University and a Guggenheim
Fellowship. Dr. Primack was President of the Association for
Tropical Biology and Conservation, and is currently Editor-in-Chief
of the journal Biological Conservation. Twenty-eight
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:
the biological impacts of climate change; the loss of species in
protected areas; tropical forest ecology and conservation; and
conservation
education. He has recently completed a popular book about changes
in Concord since the time of Henry David Thoreau, titled Walden
Warming: Climate Change Comes to Thoreau's Woods.
"Essentials of Conservation Biology does have a lot to offer and is a well-written text, with current examples up to and including papers from 2014. Terms are well defined in the text, and the history of conservation biology as a field is well explained. Chapters are engaging and well thought out, including box articles, summaries, and suggested readings for each chapter."--David W. MacDougall, Plant Science Bulletin
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