Essentials of Conservation Biology - Hardcover

Primack, Richard B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1605352896 ISBN 13: 9781605352893

Publisher: Sinauer Associates is an imprint of Oxford University Press, 2014

Synopsis

Essentials of Conservation Biology, Sixth Edition, combines theory and applied and basic research to explain the connections between conservation biology and ecology, climate change biology, the protection of endangered species, protected area management, environmental economics, and sustainable development. A major theme throughout the book is the active role that scientists, local people, the general public, conservation organizations, and governments can play in protecting biodiversity, even while providing for human needs.

Each chapter begins with general ideas and principles, which are illustrated with choice examples from the current literature. The most instructive examples are discussed in boxes highlighting projects, species, and issues of particular significance. Chapters end with summaries, an annotated list of suggested readings, and discussion questions. This new edition comes with extensive summary statements in the text margins, as study aids.
Essentials of Conservation Biology, Sixth Edition, is beautifully illustrated in full color, and is written in clear, non technical language, making it well suited for undergraduate courses.

RESOURCES

For Instructors
Instructor's Resource CD ROM This resource includes all figures (line art illustrations and photographs) and tables from the textbook, provided as both high and low resolution JPEGs. All have been formatted and optimized for excellent projection quality. Also included are ready to use PowerPoint presentations of all figures and tables.

About this title

About the Author

Richard B. Primack is a Professor in the Biology Department at Boston University. He received his B.A. at Harvard University in 1972 and his Ph.D. at Duke University in 1976, and then was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Canterbury and Harvard University. He has served as a visiting professor at the University of Hong Kong and Tokyo University, and has been awarded Bullard and Putnam Fellowships from Harvard University and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Dr. Primack was President of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, and is currently Editor-in-Chief of the journal Biological Conservation. Twenty-eight foreign-language editions of his conservation biology textbooks (the Essentials and the shorter Primer of Conservation Biology) have been produced, with local coauthors. He is an author of rain forest books, most recently Tropical Rain Forests: An Ecological and Biogeographical Comparison (with Richard Corlett). Dr. Primack's research interests include: the biological impacts of climate change; the loss of species in protected areas; tropical forest ecology and conservation; and conservation education. He has recently completed a popular book about changes in Concord since the time of Henry David Thoreau, titled Walden Warming: Climate Change Comes to Thoreau's Woods.

Review

"Essentials of Conservation Biology does have a lot to offer and is a well-written text, with current examples up to and including papers from 2014. Terms are well defined in the text, and the history of conservation biology as a field is well explained. Chapters are engaging and well thought out, including box articles, summaries, and suggested readings for each chapter."--David W. MacDougall, Plant Science Bulletin

Edition details

• Publisher: Sinauer Associates is an imprint of Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1605352896
• ISBN 13: 9781605352893
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 603