Conservation Biology [Paperback]

This colourful textbook introduces students to conservation biology, the science of preserving biodiversity.Conservation biology is fast emerging as a major new discipline, incorporating biological principles into the design of effective strategies for sustainable management and preservation of populations, species and entire ecosystems. This beautifully illustrated textbook introduces students to conservation biology, taking a truly global perspective and providing a fully comprehensive and accessible treatment of the subject. Key ideas, discussion points, further reading and relevant websites are included in each chapter and textboxes are used throughout for supplementary information, definitions and case studies from around the world.Conservation biology is fast emerging as a major new discipline, incorporating biological principles into the design of effective strategies for sustainable management and preservation of populations, species and entire ecosystems. This beautifully illustrated textbook introduces students to conservation biology, taking a truly global perspective and providing a fully comprehensive and accessible treatment of the subject. Key ideas, discussion points, further reading and relevant websites are included in each chapter and textboxes are used throughout for supplementary information, definitions and case studies from around the world.This beautifully illustrated textbook introduces students to conservation biology 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. 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 landsl(