Silvius / Bodmer / Fragoso People in Nature

Wildlife Conservation in South and Central America
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-231-50208-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 464 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

This book reviews wildlife management and conservation in Central and South America. The book discusses the threats to biodiversity in this area including habitat fragmentation, development, ranching, tourism as well as hunting. The book contains contributions from many local Latin American authors who work there daily and are exposed to the numerous and unique issues that need to be taken into account when talking about conservation in Central and South America.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Silvius, Kirsten

Bodmer, Richard

Fragoso, José

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1. Wildlife Conservation and Management in South and Central America: Multiple Pressures and Innovative solutions, by José M. V. Fragoso, Richard E. Bodmer and Kirsten M. Silvius
Part I. Local Peoples and Community Management

2. Wildlife management strategies with the Embera people in the Utria National Park, by Chocó, Colombia, Astrid Ulloa, Claudia Campos, and Heidi Rubio-Torgler
3. Bridging the gap between western scientific and traditional indigenous wildlife management, by Kirsten M. Silvius
4. Techniques to increase community participation in wildlife management programs: general approaches, by Wendy R. Townsend
5. Community-based wildlife management in the Gran Chaco, by Bolivia, Andrew J. Noss and Michael Painter
6. Fisheries Management and Conservation in the Amazon Várzea Floodplain, by William G. R. Crampton, Leandro Castello and João Paulo Viana
7. Fisheries Management in the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve, by William G. R. Crampton, João Paulo Viana, Leandro Castello and José María B. Dam
8. Hunting effort analysis by rural communities in Northeastern Peru, by Pablo E. Puertas and Richard E. Bodmer
Part II. Economic Considerations

9. Community management of fishery resources in the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve, by Amazonas, BrazilJoão Paulo Viana, José Maria B. Damasceno, Leandro Castello, Wi
10. Community ownership and live Shearing of vicuñas in Peru, by Catherine T. Sahley, Jorge Torres Vargas and Jesús Sánchez Valdivia
11. Captive breeding programs as an alternative for wildlife conservation in Brazil, by Sergio Nogueira-Filho and Selene Siqueira da Cunha Nogueira
12. Economic Analysis of Wildlife Use in the Peruvian Amazon, by Richard Bodmer, and Eterzit Pezo Lozano and Tula G. Fang
Part III. Fragmentation and other non-harvest human impacts

13. Population management of mammals in Atlantic Forest fragments of Brazil, by Laury Cullen Jr., Richard E. Bodmer, Claudio Valladares-Pádua, and Jonathan D. B
14. Human pressure, by abundance and spatial distribution of Orinoco Crocodiles in the Cojedes River sy
15. Impacts of Damming on Primate Community Sructure in the Amazon—A Case Study of the Samuel Dam, by Rondônia, Brazil, Rosa M. Lemos de Sá
16. Resource partitioning of pampas deer, by brocket deer and cattle in the Pantanal, Brazil, Laurenz Pinder
17. Ecology and conservation of the Jaguar in Iguaçu National Park, by Peter G. Crawshaw Jr., Jan K. Mähler, Cibele Indrusiak, Sandra M.C. Cavalcanti,

18. Local white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari) population declines in Amazonia: Migration, by overhunting or epidemic?, José M. V. Fragoso
Part IV. Hunting Impacts--biological basis and rationale for sustainability

19. Evaluating the sustainability of hunting in the Neotropics, by Richard E. Bodmer and John G. Robinson
20. Hunting sustainability of ungulate populations in the Lacandon forest, by Mexico, Eduardo J. Naranjo, Jorge E. Bolaños, Michelle M. Guerra, and Richard E.
21. Title: Conservation of economically important birds in seasonally-flooded forests of the northeastern Peruvian Amazon, by José A. González
22. Patterns of use and hunting of turtles in the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve, by Amazonas, Brazil, Augusto Fachin Teran, Richard C. Vogt, and John B. Thorbjarnar
23. Fisheries, by Fishing Effort and Fish Consumption in the Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve and i
24. Title: Implications of the spatial structure of game populations for the sustainability of hunting in the Neotropics, by Andrés J. Novaro
25. Hunting and wildlife management in French Guiana: Current aspects and future prospects, by Cécile Richard-Hansen and Eric Hansen

Über Autor(innen)

Kirsten M. Silvius and José M. V. Fragoso are professors in the Faculty of Environmental and Forest Biology, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, New York. Richard E. Bodmer is a professor at the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.