Methods and Practice in Biodiversity Conservation
This book brings together a selection of 22 original studies submitted to Biodiversity and Conservation that address aspects of methods and practice in biodiversity conservation. The contributions deal with a wide variety of approaches to site selection and management, especially the use of bioindicators, surrogates, and other approaches to site selection. As no complete inventory of all taxa in any one site has yet been achieved, alternative strategies are essential and bioindicators or surrogates come to the fore. The articles included cover a wide range of organisms used in such approaches to in situ conservation: annelids, anurans, arthropods, birds, bryophytes, butterflies, collembolans, flowering pants, a lobster, molluscs, rodents, and turtles. Further, the habitats considered here embrace estuaries, forests, freshwater, grasslands, the marine, mountains, and sand-dunes, and are drawn from a wide range of countries – notably Australia, Brazil, India, Italy, Mexico, Nigeria, Spain, Switzerland, Tanzania, and the U. K.

Cryopreservation, well established for ex situ preservation of bacteria and fungi, is shown here also applied to bryophyte conservation. Finance is always a problem, and the final contribution examines the sources of money available for conservation action in an examplar country, Mexico.

Collectively, the studies presented here provide a snap-shot of the range of methods and practices in use in the conservation of biodiversity today. This makes the volume especially valuable for use in conservation biology and biodiversity management courses.

Reprinted from Biodiversity and Conservation, Volume 18 No 5 (2009).

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Methods and Practice in Biodiversity Conservation
This book brings together a selection of 22 original studies submitted to Biodiversity and Conservation that address aspects of methods and practice in biodiversity conservation. The contributions deal with a wide variety of approaches to site selection and management, especially the use of bioindicators, surrogates, and other approaches to site selection. As no complete inventory of all taxa in any one site has yet been achieved, alternative strategies are essential and bioindicators or surrogates come to the fore. The articles included cover a wide range of organisms used in such approaches to in situ conservation: annelids, anurans, arthropods, birds, bryophytes, butterflies, collembolans, flowering pants, a lobster, molluscs, rodents, and turtles. Further, the habitats considered here embrace estuaries, forests, freshwater, grasslands, the marine, mountains, and sand-dunes, and are drawn from a wide range of countries – notably Australia, Brazil, India, Italy, Mexico, Nigeria, Spain, Switzerland, Tanzania, and the U. K.

Cryopreservation, well established for ex situ preservation of bacteria and fungi, is shown here also applied to bryophyte conservation. Finance is always a problem, and the final contribution examines the sources of money available for conservation action in an examplar country, Mexico.

Collectively, the studies presented here provide a snap-shot of the range of methods and practices in use in the conservation of biodiversity today. This makes the volume especially valuable for use in conservation biology and biodiversity management courses.

Reprinted from Biodiversity and Conservation, Volume 18 No 5 (2009).

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Methods and Practice in Biodiversity Conservation

Methods and Practice in Biodiversity Conservation

by David Leslie Hawksworth (Editor)
Methods and Practice in Biodiversity Conservation

Methods and Practice in Biodiversity Conservation

by David Leslie Hawksworth (Editor)

Overview

This book brings together a selection of 22 original studies submitted to Biodiversity and Conservation that address aspects of methods and practice in biodiversity conservation. The contributions deal with a wide variety of approaches to site selection and management, especially the use of bioindicators, surrogates, and other approaches to site selection. As no complete inventory of all taxa in any one site has yet been achieved, alternative strategies are essential and bioindicators or surrogates come to the fore. The articles included cover a wide range of organisms used in such approaches to in situ conservation: annelids, anurans, arthropods, birds, bryophytes, butterflies, collembolans, flowering pants, a lobster, molluscs, rodents, and turtles. Further, the habitats considered here embrace estuaries, forests, freshwater, grasslands, the marine, mountains, and sand-dunes, and are drawn from a wide range of countries – notably Australia, Brazil, India, Italy, Mexico, Nigeria, Spain, Switzerland, Tanzania, and the U. K.

Cryopreservation, well established for ex situ preservation of bacteria and fungi, is shown here also applied to bryophyte conservation. Finance is always a problem, and the final contribution examines the sources of money available for conservation action in an examplar country, Mexico.

Collectively, the studies presented here provide a snap-shot of the range of methods and practices in use in the conservation of biodiversity today. This makes the volume especially valuable for use in conservation biology and biodiversity management courses.

Reprinted from Biodiversity and Conservation, Volume 18 No 5 (2009).

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9789400731172
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Publication date: 06/12/2012
Series: Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation , #11
Edition description: 2010
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

Annelids, arthropods or molluscs are suitable as surrogate taxa for selecting conservation reserves in estuaries Mohammad Reza Shokri William Gladstone Andrew Kepert 1

Species' surrogacy for conservation planning: caveats from comparing the response of three arboreal rodents to habitat loss and fragmentation Alessio Mortelliti Giulia Santulli Sanzo Luigi Boitani 15

Testing common habitat-based surrogates of invertebrate diversity in a semi-arid rangeland John R. Gollan Michael B. Ashcroft Gerasimos Cassis Andrew P. Donnelly Scott A. Lassau 31

Collembola as bioindicators of restoration in mined sand dunes of Northeastern Brazil Douglas Zeppelini Bruno Cavalcante Bellini Ant?nio Jos? Cre?O-Duarte Malva Isabel Medina Hern?ndez 45

An easy-to-use index of ecological integrity for prioritizing freshwater sites and for assessing habitat quality John P. Simaika Michael J. Samways 55

Changes in arthropod diversity along a land use driven gradient of shrub cover in savanna rangelands: identification of suitable indicators Niels Blaum Colleen Seymour Eva Rossmanith Monika Schwager Florian Jeltsch 71

Developing a scuba trail vulnerability index (STVI): a case study from a Mediterranean MPA Antonio Di Franco Agnese Marchini Pasquale Baiata Marco Milazzo Renato Chemello 85

Monitoring large herbivore diversity at different scales: comparing direct and indirect methods Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt Susan J. Van Rensburg Rampal S. Etienne Han Olff 103

A comparison of Australia's anuran records against the reserve system Francis Lemckert Dan Rosauer Cameron Slatyer 117

Sustainable biodiversity conservation in the Niger Delta: a practical approach to conservation site selection P. O. Phil-Eze I. C. Okoro 131

Rarity and site selection for bryophyte conservation Des A. Callaghan Paul A. Ashton 143

Implications of location specific data and their usefulness in conservation planning: an example from Indian Himalayan Region (IHR) Gayatri Mahar U. Dhar R. S. Rawal I. D. Bhatt 157

Assessing habitat/landscape predictors of bird diversity in managed deciduous forests: a seasonal and guild-based approach Enrico Caprio Ivan Ellena Antonio Rolando 171

A statistical methodology for tracking long-term change in reporting rates of birds from volunteer-collected presence-absence data Ross Cunningham Penny Olsen 189

Scenario-based assessment of future land use change on butterfly species distributions Michael L?tolf Janine Bolliger Felix Kienast Antoine Guisan 213

A model assessing the conservation threats to freshwater turtles of Sub-Saharan Africa predicts urgent need for continental conservation planning Luca Luiselli 233

Does illegal hunting affect density and behaviour of African grassland birds? A case study on ostrich (Struthio camelus) Flora John Magige Tomas Holmern Sigbj?rn Stokke Charles Mlingwa Eivin R?skaft 245

A rapid and cost-effective tool for managing habitats of the European Natura 2000 network: a case study in the Italian Alps Rossi Graziano Parolo Gilberto Ferrarini Alessandro 259

Markov models of territory occupancy: implications for the management and conservation of competing species Pascual L?pez-L?pez Alvaro Soutullo Clara Garc?a-Ripoll?s Vicente Urios Luis Cadah?a Miguel Ferrer 273

Estimating historical commercial rock lobster (Jasus edwardsii) catch inside Australian State territorial waters for marine protected area assessment: the binomial likelihood method Richard Mcgarvey Adrian Linnane 287

How bryophytes came out of the cold: successful cryopreservation of threatened species J. K. Rowntree M. M. Ramsay 297

Understanding investment in biodiversity conservation in Mexico Ram?n P?rez Gil Salcido In?s Arroyo Quiroz Roberto Romero Ram?rez 305

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