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Behavioral Approaches to Conservation in the Wild » (1st Edition)

Authors: Janine R. Clemmons, Richard Buchholz
ISBN-13: 9780521589604, ISBN-10: 0521589606
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: September 2006
Edition: 1st Edition

Investigates the role animal behavior has to play in the conservation of animals in the wild.

	List of contributors
	Preface
	General acknowledgments
Pt. I	Problems and issues	1
1	Linking conservation and behavior	3
2	Integrating behavior into conservation biology: Potentials and limitations	23
3	Why hire a behaviorist into a conservation or management team?	48
4	Conservation, behavior, and 99% of the world's biodiversity: Is our ignorance really bliss?	72
Pt. II	Conservation and the four levels of behavioral study	93
5	Environmental stress, field endocrinology, and conservation biology	95
6	Conservation and the ontogeny of behavior	132
7	Hatching asynchrony in parrots: Boon or bane for sustainable use?	157
8	Behavioral variation: A valuable but neglected biodiversity	181
Pt. III	Examples and case studies	209
9	Bioacoustics as a tool in conservation studies	212
10	Mating systems, effective population size, and conservation of natural populations	243
11	The importance of social behavior studies for conservation	262
12	Linking environmental toxicology, ethology, and conservation	277
13	The problem of photopollution for sea turtles and other nocturnal animals	303
14	Light, Behavior, and conservation of forest-dwelling organisms	329
15	On becoming a conservation biologist: Autobiography and advice	356
	Author acknowledgments	373
	Index	376