Central American Biodiversity Conservation, Ecology, and a Sustainable Future [Hardcover]

This book highlights key results and lessons learnt from two field sites, La Suerte in Costa Rica and Ometepe Nicaragua. It provides long term data on species abundance and distribution. Primates receive specific attention in this book, as they are flagship species and good indicators for the health of an ecosystem, but as well a money maker. Many primate species are sensitive to habitat alteration, and are often hunted out first. But they play an important role as seed dispersal agents for the regeneration of the forest. The book then compares results from the two field sites with regional trends, and explores potential solutions such as REDD+. This book strongly calls for new approaches in conservation, it makes the case for looking beyond the pure species biology and classic conservation angle and to take into account the economic and political realities.

Chapter 1

A Short Introduction to Tropical Land- and Seascapes and their Wildlife Conservation Management

Falk Huettmann and Moritz S. Schmid

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Chapter 2

If leaders like Alexander von Humboldt, Ronald Reagan and Xi Jinping would have been environmental justice radicals using public internet and drones: A short political ecology of Central America? with regards to global agenda setting in 2014

Falk Huettmann

Chapter 3

Bird conservation status and meaningful socioeconomic correlates in Central America: Results from an open access data mining approach for parrots using machine learning indicate serious economic problems

Cynthia Resendiz-Infante and Falk Huettmann

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Chapter 4

Reversed Kuznets Curves in the Caribbean: Linking Marine Biodiversity Endangerment with l³‹