Behavioral Ecology and Conservation Biology

✍ Scribed by Tim Caro

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 599
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In just the last few years, behavioral ecologists have begun to address issues in conservation biology. This volume is the first attempt to link these disciplines formally. Here leading researchers explore current topics in conservation biology and discuss how behavioral ecology can contribute to a greater understanding of conservation problems and conservation intervention programs. In each chapter, the authors identify a conservation issue, review the ways it has been addressed, review behavioral ecological data related to it, including their own, evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the behavioral ecological approach, and put forward specific conservation recommendations. The chapters juxtapose different studies on a wide variety of taxonomic groups. A number of common themes emerge, including the ways in which animal mating systems affect population persistence, the roles of dispersal and inbreeding avoidance for topics such as reserve design and effective population size, the key role of humans in conservation issues, and the importance of baseline data for conservation monitoring and modeling attempts. Each chapter sheds new light on conservation problems, generates innovative avenues of interdisciplinary research, and shows how conservation-minded behavioral ecologists can apply their expertise to some of the most important questions we face today.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 10
Contributors......Page 14
1 The Significance of Behavioral Ecology for Conservation Biology......Page 20
2 The Role of Individual Identification in Conservation Biology......Page 48
3 Ecological Indicators of Risk for Primates, as Judged by Species' Susceptibility to Logging......Page 73
4 Future Prey: Some Consequences of the Loss and Restoration of Large Carnivores......Page 97
5 A Minimum Intervention Approach to Conservation: The Influence of Social Structure......Page 122
6 Contributions of Behavioral Studies to Captive Management and Breeding of Rare and Endangered Mammals......Page 147
7 Behavior as a Tool for Management Intervention in Birds......Page 180
8 Conspeciflc Aggregation and Conservation Biology......Page 210
9 Reproductive Ecology in the Conservation and Management of Fishes......Page 226
10 Social Organization and Effective Population Size in Carnivores......Page 263
11 Animal Breeding Systems, Hunter Selectivity, and Consumptive Use in Wildlife Conservation......Page 288
12 Conspecific Brood Parasitism, Population Dynamics, and the Conservation of Cavity-Nesting Birds......Page 323
13 The Importance of Mate Choice in Improving Viability in Captive Populations......Page 358
14 Mammalian Dispersal and Reserve Design......Page 386
15 Behavioral Ecology, Genetic Diversity, and Declining Amphibian Populations......Page 411
16 The Management of Subsistence Harvesting: Behavioral Ecology of Hunters and Their Mammalian Prey......Page 466
17 Indigenous Hunting in the Neotropics: Conservation or Optimal Foraging?......Page 491
18 The Evolved Psychological Apparatus of Decision-Making Is One Source of Environmental Problems......Page 518
Afterword......Page 542
19 Behavioral Ecology and Conservation Policy: On Balancing Science, Applications, and Advocacy......Page 544
Epilogue......Page 572
20 How do We Refocus Behavioral Ecology to Address Conservation Issues More Directly?......Page 574
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