Conservation Biology For the Coming Decade - Fiedler, Peggy L.; Kareiva, Peter M.; SpringerLink (Online service) (New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1998)
Section I Saving Species Through Population Biology and Viability Analyses: A Morass of Math, Myth, and Mistakes? -- 1 The Analysis of Population Persistence: An Outlook on the Practice of Viability Analysis -- 2 Rare Plant Demography: Lessons from the Mariposa Lilies (Calochortus: Liliaceae) -- 3 Evaluating Extinction Risks in Plant Populations -- 4 Physical Effects of Habitat Fragmentation -- 5 Reintroduction of Rare Plants: Genetics, Demography and the Role of Ex Situ Conservation Methods -- Section II Broad Brushes and Taxonomic Tours: Summaries of the State of the Natural World -- 6 Conservation and Management of Species in the Sea -- 7 Reptilian Extinctions over the Last Ten Thousand Years -- 8 Conservation Status of the World's Fish Fauna: An Overview -- 9 Challenges in Insect Conservation: Managing Fluctuating Populations in Disturbed Habitats -- 10 An Australian Perspective on Plant Conservation Biology in Practice -- Section III Habitat Degradation and Ecological Restoration: Hubris, Hegemony, and Healing -- 11 Critical Issues in Invasion Biology for Conservation Science -- 12 Challenges and Approaches for Conserving Hawaii's Endangered Birds -- 13 Picking Up the Pieces: Botanical Conservation on Degraded Oceanic Islands -- 14 When Do Genetic Considerations Require Special Approaches to Ecological Restoration? -- 15 Replacing Endangered Species Habitat: The Acid Test of Wetland Ecology -- Section IV When Conservation Meets the Real World of Economics, Politics, and Tradeoffs -- 16 The Economics of Biological Diversity Conservation -- 17 The Patagonia Challenge: Melding Conservation with Development -- 18 Tropical Agroecology and Conservation Ecology: Two Paths Toward Sustainable Development -- Section V New Technologies and Novel Perspectives for the Next Generation of Conservation Biology -- 19 Using Molecular Genetics to Learn about the Ecology of Threatened Species: The Allure and the Illusion of Measuring Genetic Structure in Natural Populations -- 20 Conservation Endocrinology: Field Endocrinology Meets Conservation Biology -- 21 Global Climate Change and Species Interactions -- 22 Contributions of Spatially Explicit Landscape Models to Conservation Biology -- Epilogue A Retrospective "Gap Analysis".
Keywords: Conservation biology; Ecology .; Nature conservation; Environmental management; Evolutionary biology; Conservation Biology/Ecology.; Nature Conservation; Environmental Management; Ecology; Evolutionary Biology