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Conservation biology [electronic resource]

Conservation biology is fast emerging as a major new discipline, which incorporates biological principles in the design of effective strategies for the sustainable management of populations, species and entire ecosystems. This beautifully illustrated textbook introduces students to conservation biology, the science of preserving biodiversity. It begins by taking the reader on a tour of the many and varied ecosystems of our planet, providing a setting in which to explore the factors that have led to the alarming loss of biodiversity that we now see. In particular the fundamental problems of habitat loss and fragmentation, habitat disturbance and the non-sustainable exploitation of species in both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems are explored. The methods that have been developed to address these problems, from the most traditional forms of conservation, to new approaches at genetic to landscape scales are then discussed, showing how the science can be put into practice.

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Conservation biology

Conservation biology is fast emerging as a major new discipline, which incorporates biological principles in the design of effective strategies for the sustainable management of populations, species and entire ecosystems. This beautifully illustrated textbook introduces students to conservation biology, the science of preserving biodiversity. It begins by taking the reader on a tour of the many and varied ecosystems of our planet, providing a setting in which to explore the factors that have led to the alarming loss of biodiversity that we now see. In particular the fundamental problems of habitat loss and fragmentation, habitat disturbance and the non-sustainable exploitation of species in both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems are explored. The methods that have been developed to address these problems, from the most traditional forms of conservation, to new approaches at genetic to landscape scales are then discussed, showing how the science can be put into practice.

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Conservation biology

"Brings together theory, applied research, basic research, and hundreds of real-world examples and stories from dozens of disciplines to teach students how to be practicing conservation biologists that protect and manage Earth's biodiversity while sustaining a high quality of life for humankind." -- Back cover

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Tompkins Conservation places archive at the Stanford University Libraries in support of ongoing field studies and research in Chile and Argentina

HOWLoween 2023: Celebrating National Wolf Awareness Week at Stanford Libraries

Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve: Vegetation Communities (verso: Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve: Trails). Copyright 1996 Center for Conservation Biology and JRBP, Stanford University.

Digitized by Stanford University Libraries.

California Conservation Easement Database, 2019

CCED is a GIS database defining easements and deed-based restrictions on private land. These restrictions limit land uses to those compatible with ...

Dry Nitrogen Deposition: San Francisco Bay Area, California, 2007

This raster dataset depicts dry nitrogen deposition for the nine county San Francisco Bay Area Region, California. Dry nitrogen deposition is the i...