This book brings together a selection of 21 original studies submitted
to Biodiversity and Conservation that address aspects of management for
the conservation of biodiversity. The topics addressed include: lessons
from the Northern spotted owl saga, hidden costs of implementing the EU
Habitats Directive, the importance of recently created agricultural
wetlands, cutting reeds to create a sustainable habitat, impacts and
control of feral cats, selecting areas to complement existing reserve
systems, beneficial effects of rabbit warrens, effects of fences on
large predator ranges, spatial structure of critical habitats and
connectivity, effects of an agro-pasture landscape on biodiversity,
community involvement, reserve selection in forests, germ-plasm
interventions in agroforestry systems, shade coffee plantations and the
protection of tree diversity, reserves and the reduction of
deforestation rates in dry tropical forests, reconciling forest
conservation actions with usage by and needs of local peoples, weed
invasion in understory plant communities in tropical lowland forests,
problems of patch area and connectivity in plant conservation, the need
not to focus just on hot-spots, and partitioning conservation across
elevations.
The organisms and communities considered embrace birds, coral reefs,
various large and small mammals, reptiles, forest trees, and dune and
boreal semi-natural grassland plants. The contributions are taken from
situations being confronted in regions including the Andaman Islands,
Brazil, Canary Islands, the Caribbean, Finland, Germany, Guinea, India,
Italy, Mexico, Myanmar, Poland, South Africa, Spain, and the USA.
Collectively, the studies presented here provide a snap-shot of the
types of management actions being undertaken for conservation and their
efficacy. This makes the volume especially valuable for use in
conservation biology courses.
Reprinted from Biodiversity and Conservation, volume 18, No 4 (2009)
