Description

The main goal of this book is to encourage and formalize the infusion of evolutionary thinking into mainstream conservation biology. It reviews the evolutionary foundations of conservation issues, and unifies conceptual and empirical advances in evolutionary conservation biology. The book can be used either as a primary textbook or as a supplementary reading in an advanced undergraduate or graduate level course - likely to be called Conservation Biology or in some cases Evolutionary Ecology. The focus of chapters is on current concepts in evolution as they pertain to conservation, and the empirical study of these concepts. The balanced treatment avoids exhaustive reviews and overlapping duplication among the chapters. Little background in genetics is assumed of the reader.

Features

• Provides a coherent academic and conceptual organization for an evolutionary approach to conservation biology, for which study materials are currently lacking and which this volume provides as a foundation for this rapidly growing subject.
• Conservation biology is a rapidly expanding academic field of study; its main sub-disciplines, ecology and genetics, need bridging, and evolutionary conservation biology is their logical and emergent descendant.
• The book provides novel, attractive, and exciting treatments of key topics and issues.
• Contributing chapter authors are well-known, innovative leaders in the field
• Suggestions for Further Reading direct students to other materials they should read to familiarize themselves with the subject
• Cuts across many areas of environmental biology relevant to the work of applied biologists and other scientists

Product Details

392 pages; 150 b/w illus.; 7 x 10; ISBN13: 978-0-19-530678-1ISBN10: 0-19-530678-3

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