Williams / Pople / Showler Bird Conservation

Global evidence for the effects of interventions
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-907807-21-3
Verlag: Pelagic Publishing
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band Vol. 2, 575 Seiten, EPUB

Reihe: Synopses of Conservation Evidence

This book brings together scientific evidence and experience relevant to the practical conservation of wild birds. The authors worked with an international group of bird experts and conservationists to develop a global list of interventions that could benefit wild birds. 

For each intervention, the book summarises studies captured by the Conservation Evidence project, where that intervention has been tested and its effects on birds quantified. The result is a thorough guide to what is known, or not known, about the effectiveness of bird conservation actions throughout the world.

The preparation of this synopsis was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council and Arcadia.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Williams, David R.

Pople, Robert G.

Showler, David A.

Dicks, Lynn V.

Child, Matthew F.

zu Ermgassen, Erasmus K.H.J.

Sutherland, William J.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie Wirbeltiere (Vertebrata) Vögel (Ornithologie)
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Tier- und Umweltschutz

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. About this book

2. Habitat protection

3. Education and awareness raising

4. Threat: Residential and commercial development

5. Threat: Agriculture

6. Threat: Energy production and mining

7. Threat: Transportation and service corridors

8. Threat: Biological resource use

9. Threat: Human intrusions and disturbance

10. Threat: Natural system modifi cations

11. Habitat restoration and creation

12. Threat: Invasive alien and other problematic species

13. Threat: Pollution

14. Threat: Climate change, extreme weather and geological events

15. General responses to small/declining populations

16. Captive breeding, rearing and releases (ex situ conservation)

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dicks, Lynn V.
Lynn Dicks is a Research Fellow at the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge. She has been a NERC Knowledge Exchange Fellow, linked to the Insect Pollinators Initiative(2011-2014) and a Co-ordinating Lead Author of the IPBES Thematic assessment of pollinators, pollination and food production. She has a degree from Oxford University in Biological Sciences (1995) and a PhD from Cambridge University (2002) on the ecology of flower-visiting insects.

Sutherland, William J.
Bill Sutherland is Miriam Rothschild Professor of Conservation Biology at the University of Cambridge and President of the British Ecological Society. He is known for his research on integrating science and policy particularly in the field of evidence-based conservation. Two of his key contributions have been the horizon-scanning exercises to identify future priority issues and the 100 important questions in various disciplines (ecology, poverty prevention, global agriculture and food amongst others). He has also worked extensively on bird population ecology and the biodiversity impacts of agriculture.

David Williams is a Research Assistant in the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Robert G. Pople is a former Research Assistant in the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

David Showler is a Research Associate in the School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia and the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Matthew F. Child is a Research Assistant in the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Lynn Dicks is a Research Associate in the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Erasmus K.H.J. zu Ermgassen is a student in the Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

William J. Sutherland is the Miriam Rothschild Professor of Conservation Biology at the University of Cambridge.