Overview
- Draws together a wide range of peer-reviewed primary research papers from biodiversity researchers around the world
- Provides examples from a wide spectrum of issues representing the current state-of-the art in arthropods
- Provides examples of recent work, usable as case studies for courses in ecology, restoration, biodiversity, conservation
- Enables specialist researchers to see primary research papers tackling problems in arthropods
Part of the book series: Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation (TOBC, volume 3)
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Table of contents (27 chapters)
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About this book
This book gathers together a wide range of contributions addressing diverse aspects of front-line human involvement in biodiversity exploitation and conservation. As such they collectively provide a snap-shot of on-going action and state-of-the-art research, rather than a series of necessarily more superficial overviews. As such it is envisaged that it will be of particular interest to courses including biodiversity and/or conservation issues, and to advanced students and researchers working in related fields. The scope of these embraces cases involving birds, crop plants, invertebrates, land use changes, livestock, mammals, marine organisms, and medicinal plants. Issues related to the importance of gardens, hedges and green lanes, housing developments, hunting, invasive species, local community involvement, sacred groves, socioeconomic factors, and trade. Examples presented here come from studies in 17 countries including ones in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North and South America. All are topical cases to stimulate thoughts and future work programmes aiming to attain a sustainable balance between the conservation and sustainable exploitation of biodiversity.
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From the reviews:
"This absorbing volume brings together papers from … the journal Biodiversity and Conservation. … Each chapter … is a little treasure house of biotic data, indigenous knowledge, or informed ideas about planning and implementing conservation projects. Overall, the collection is … manageably grand in scope. … The book is recommended as a useful addition to the library of conservation biologists, natural resource managers, grass-roots stakeholders and advocates, and, especially, students looking for a convenient entrée into the literature about global studies." (Gary Haynes, Ecology, Vol. 89 (6), 2008)
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Human Exploitation and Biodiversity Conservation
Editors: David L. Hawksworth, Alan T. Bull
Series Title: Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5283-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5282-8Published: 07 November 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7329-7Published: 22 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5283-5Published: 03 January 2008
Series ISSN: 1875-1288
Series E-ISSN: 1875-1296
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 514
Additional Information: Reprinted from Biodiversity and Conservation, volume 15:8 (2006)
Topics: Biodiversity, Plant Ecology, Ecosystems, Landscape Ecology, Applied Ecology, Agriculture