Authors: Tim Caro (Editor), Caro
ISBN-13: 9780195104905, ISBN-10: 0195104900
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: August 1998
Edition: New Edition
Professor, Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology, Center for Population Biology
In just the last few years, behavioral ecologists have begun to address issues in conservation biology. This volume is the first attempt to link these disciplines formally. Here leading researchers explore current topics in conservation biology and discuss how behavioral ecology can contribute to a greater understanding of conservation problems and conservation intervention programs. In each chapter, the authors identify a conservation issue, review the ways it has been addressed, review behavioral ecological data related to it, including their own, evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the behavioral ecological approach, and put forward specific conservation recommendations. The chapters juxtapose different studies on a wide variety of taxonomic groups. A number of common themes emerge, including the ways in which animal mating systems affect population persistence, the roles of dispersal and inbreeding avoidance for topics such as reserve design and effective population size, the key role of humans in conservation issues, and the importance of baseline data for conservation monitoring and modeling attempts. Each chapter sheds new light on conservation problems, generates innovative avenues of interdisciplinary research, and shows how conservation-minded behavioral ecologists can apply their expertise to some of the most important questions we face today.
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1 | The Significance of Behavioral Ecology for Conservation Biology | 3 |
2 | The Role of Individual Identification in Conservation Biology | 31 |
3 | Ecological Indicators of Risk for Primates, as Judged by Species' Susceptibility to Logging | 56 |
4 | Future Prey: Some Consequences of the Loss and Restoration of Large Carnivores | 80 |
5 | A Minimum Intervention Approach to Conservation: The Influence of Social Structure | 105 |
6 | Contributions of Behavioral Studies to Captive Management and Breeding of Rare and Endangered Mammals | 130 |
7 | Behavior as a Tool for Management Intervention in Birds | 163 |
8 | Conspecific Aggregation and Conservation Biology | 193 |
9 | Reproductive Ecology in the Conservation and Management of Fishes | 209 |
10 | Social Organization and Effective Population Size in Carnivores | 246 |
11 | Animal Breeding Systems, Hunter Selectivity, and Consumptive Use in Wildlife Conservation | 271 |
12 | Conspecific Brood Parasitism, Population Dynamics, and the Conservation of Cavity-Nesting Birds | 306 |
13 | The Importance of Mate Choice in Improving Viability in Captive Populations | 341 |
14 | Mammalian Dispersal and Reserve Design | 369 |
15 | Behavioral Ecology, Genetic Diversity, and Declining Amphibian Populations | 394 |
16 | The Management of Subsistence Harvesting: Behavioral Ecology of Hunters and Their Mammalian Prey | 449 |
17 | Indigenous Hunting in the Neotropics: Conservation or Optimal Foraging? | 474 |
18 | The Evolved Psychological Apparatus of Decision-Making Is One Source of Environmental Problems | 501 |
19 | Behavioral Ecology and Conservation Policy: On Balancing Science, Applications, and Advocacy | 527 |
20 | How do We Refocus Behavioral Ecology to Address Conservation Issues More Directly? | 557 |
Index | 567 |