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[Ebook PDF] Essentials of Conservation Biology, 6th Edition

ISBN-13: 978-1605352893
ISBN-10: 9781605352893

Author: Richard B. Primack (Author)

Essentials of Conservation Biology, Sixth Edition, combines theory and applied and basic research to explain the connections between conservation biology and ecology, climate change biology, the protection of endangered species, protected area management, environmental economics, and sustainable development. A major theme throughout the book is the active role that scientists, local people, the general public, conservation organizations, and governments can play in protecting biodiversity, even while providing for human needs.

Each chapter begins with general ideas and principles, which are illustrated with choice examples from the current literature. The most instructive examples are discussed in boxes highlighting projects, species, and issues of particular significance. Chapters end with summaries, an annotated list of suggested readings, and discussion questions. This new edition comes with extensive summary statements in the text margins, as study aids.
Essentials of Conservation Biology, Sixth Edition, is beautifully illustrated in full color, and is written in clear, non technical language, making it well suited for undergraduate courses.

Preface
Conservation biology is the field that seeks to study and protect the living world and its biological diversity (or “biodiversity” in its shortened form). The field emerged during the last 35 years as a major new discipline to address the alarming loss of biological diversity. The threats to biodiversity are all too real, as demonstrated by the recent recognition that fully one-third of amphibian species are in danger of
extinction. At the same time, we continue to be hopeful and inspired by success stories, like increasing sea turtle populations at many locations throughout the world following comprehensive conservation efforts. Many examples described in this book show that governments, ind ividuals, and conservation organizations can work together to make the world a better place for all living things.
After decades of public interest in nature and the environment, the United Nations focused worldwide attention on conservation by declaring 2011-2020 to be the Decade of Biodiversity. The general public has absorbed this message and is asking its political leaders to provide the policy changes needed to address issues of conservation. The last two years have also seen far greater interest in ocean conservation, with the establishment of three new giant marine protected areas, each over 500,000 km2 in area. Evidence of the ever-increasing interest in conservation biology is shown by the great intellectual excitement in many journals and newsletters and the large numbers of new edited books and advanced texts that appear almost weekly. International conservation organizations are tackling conservation issues with a multi-disciplinary approach, and an Enci;clopedia of Life is being developed as an online resource to provide the needed information for conservation issues. Popular magazines, such as National Geographic, frequently publish articles with conservation themes.
Large numbers of university students continue to enroll in conservation biology courses. Previous editions of Essentials of Conservation Biology have provided a comprehensive textbook for this subject. (A Printer of Conservation Biologi;, in its Fifth Edition, continues to fill the need for a “quick” guide for those who want basic fa – miliarity with conservation biology.) This Edition of Essentials provides a thorough
introduction to the major concepts and problems of the field. Like its predecessors, it is designed for use in conservation biology courses, and also as a supplemental text for general biology, ecology, wildlife biology, and environmental policy courses.
The book is also intended to serve as a detailed guide for professionals who require a comprehensive background in the subject. Readers should enjoy and benefit from the updated full-color illustration and photo program. Highlighted synopses of major points in the text have been added as sidebars and serve as useful study aids.
This Sixth Ed ition reflects the excitement and new developments in the field. It provides coverage of the latest information available on a number of topics, including the expanding system of marine protected areas and linkages between conservation and global change. It highlights new approaches culled from the recent literature on topics such as citizen science, aerial drones in conservation management, the economic value of wild pollinators, the use of environmental DNA (eDNA) in aquatic environments, and payments for ecosystem services.
In keeping with the global nature of conservation biology, I feel it is important to make the field accessible to as wide an audience as possible. With the assistance of Marie Scavotto and the staff of Sinauer Associates, I have arranged an active translation program, beginning with translations into German and Chinese in 1997. It became clear to me that the best way to make the material accessible
was to create regional or country-specific translations, identifying local scientists to become coauthors and to add case studies, examples, and illustrations from their own countries and regions that would be more relevant to the intended a udience.
To that end, in the past 12 years, editions of Essentials have appeared in Arabic, Hungarian, Romanian (two editions), Spanish (with a Latin American focus), and Turkish; and the Prilner has appeared in Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (three editions), Czech, Estonian, French (two editions, one with a Madagascar focus), Greek, Indonesian (two editions), Italian (two editions), Japanese (two ed itions), Korean
(two editions), Mongolian, Nepal (in English), Russian, South Asia (in English), Spanish, and Vietnamese. New editions of the Priiner for Africa, Bangladesh, Brazil, Germany, Iran, Madagascar, South Korea, Laos, Pakistan, Serbia, and Thailand and the Essentials in China are currently in production. These translations will help conservation biology develop as a discipline with a global scope. At the same time,
examples from these translations find their way back into the English language editions, thereby enriching the presentation.
I hope that readers of this book will want to find out more about the extinction crisis facing species and ecosystems and how they can take action to halt it. I encourage readers to take the field’s activist spirit to heart- use the Appendix to find organizations and sources of information on how to help. If readers gain a greater appreciation for the goals, methods, and importance of conservation biology, and
if they are moved to make a d ifference in their everyday lives, this textbook will have served its purpose.