| Description |
xv, 395 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: p. 349-382. |
| Contents |
Conservation biology : its scope and its challenge / Michael E. Soule & Bruce A. Wilcox -- Food web organization and conservation of neotropical diversity / Lawrence E. Gilbert -- The density and biomass of tropical mammals / John F. Eisenberg -- Patchy distributions of tropical birds / Jared M. Diamond -- Heterogeneity and disturbance in tropical vegetation / Robin B. Foster - - Insular ecology and conservation / Bruce A. Wilcox -- Some causes of extinction / John Terborgh & Blair Winter -- Evolutionary change in small populations / Ian R. Franklin -- Thresholds for survival : maintaining fitness and evolutionary potential / Michael E. Soule -- Demographic intervention for closely managed populations / Daniel Goodman -- An overview of captive propagation / William G. Conway -- Inbreeding depression and the survival of zoo populations / John W. Senner -- The technology of captive propagation / Kurt Benirschke, Bill Lasley, Oliver Ryder -- The sociobiology of captive propagation / Devra G. Kleiman -- Is reintroduction a realistic goal? / Sheldon Campbell -- African wildlife resources / Malcolm Coe -- The conservation of tropical rain forest / T. C. Whitmore -- Management of nature reserves / Robert M. Pyle -- The strategy of conservation, 1980-2000 / Paul R. Ehrlich. |
| Subject |
Conservation biology.
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| Added Author |
Soule, Michael E.
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Wilcox, Bruce A., 1948-
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| ISBN |
0878938001 : $14.95 |
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