This book documents the present state of wildlife on a global scale, using a taxonomic approach. It is an essential guide for undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in conservation biology and natural resource management, and academics and professionals involved in conservation.
Since 1970, there has been an overall decline in wildlife populations in the order of 52%. Freshwater species populations have declined by 76%; species populations in Central and South America have declined by 83%; and in the Indo-Pacific by 67%. These are often not complete extinctions, but large declines in the numbers of animals in each species, as well as habitat loss. This presents us with a tremendous opportunity, before it is too late to rescue many species. This book documents the present state of wildlife on a global scale, using a taxonomic approach, and serving as a one stop place for people involved in conservation to be able to find out what is in decline, and the success stories that have occurred to bring back species from the brink of extinction - primarily due to conservation management techniques - as models for what we might achieve in the future.
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'Highly recommended.' J. Organ, Choice 'Matt Hayward provides a devastating critique of the novel ecosystem and compassionate conservation movement approaches that threaten to homogenize global biodiversity, i.e., the inverse of the intended aim of most conservation to maintain or restore biodiversity. This book is a useful compendium and I recommend it particularly for teachers, nongovernmental organizations, and undergraduate conservation courses.' Rob Harcourt, The Quarterly Review of Biology
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This comprehensive volume describes the present state of wildlife on a global scale, using a taxonomic approach.
1. Introduction and the evolution of life on earth Norman Maclean;
2.
Flowering plants Sara Oldfield and Lauren Gardiner;
3. Bryophytes and
Pteridophytes; Spore-bearing land plants Mary Gibby;
4. Terrestrial mammals
Alexis M. Mychajliw;
5. Marine mammals: exploited for millennia, but still
holding on Alexis M. Mychajliw and Thomas A. Jefferson;
6. Birds Tristram
Allinson;
7. Reptiles Philip Bowles;
8. Amphibians Phillip J. Bishop ,
Sally Wren, Ariadne Angulo and Richard A. Griffiths;
9. Freshwater fishes:
threatened species and threatened waters on a global scale Peter B. Moyle and
Robert A. Leidy;
10. The amazing yet threatened world of marine fishes Mark
A. Hixon and Brian W. Bowen;
11. Insects Manu E. Saunders, Simon Leather ,
Jenni Stockan and David Yeates;
12. Marine invertebrates Alex David Rogers,
Patricia Miloslavich, David Obura and Octavio Aburto-Oropreza;
13. Non-insect
terrestrial arthropods Gonzalo Giribet;
14. Terrestrial invertebrates other
than arthropods and molluscs Gonzalo Giribet;
15. Non-marine Molluscs Robert
H. Cowie, Benoīt Fontaine and Philippe Bouchet;
16. An account of the
diversity and conservation of fungi and their close relatives Gregory Mueller
and Jessica L. Allen;
17. Simple life forms Norman Maclean;
18. Assessing
species conservation status: the IUCN red list and green status Molly Grace;
19. Problems with the world`s ecosystems Matt W. Hayward;
20. Conservation
methods and successes Norman Maclean;
21. What does the future hold for our
planet and its wildlife? Norman Maclean; Index.
Norman Maclean is Emeritus Professor of Biology at the University of Southampton and a lifelong wildlife enthusiast. He has visited and studied wildlife in more than fifty countries around the world and has given numerous radio and TV interviews on the subject. He is the editor of Silent Summer (Cambridge, 2010); co-editor of Austral Ark (with Adam Stowe and Greg Holwell, Cambridge, 2015); and author of A Less Green and Pleasant Land (Cambridge, 2015).
