Conservation biology
Subtitle: research priorities for the next decade
By: edited by Michael E. Soule and Gordon H. Orians.
Contributors: Soulé, Michael E.; Orians, Gordon H.; Society for Conservation Biology
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Washington, [D.C.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
Subjects: Conservation biology -- Research
Notes: "Society for Conservation Biology."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / -- P. Dee Boersma -- Introduction / -- Gordon H. Orians, -- Michael E. Soulé; title: Assessment and management of species at risk -- Georgina M. Mace ... -- [et al.]; title: Human alteration of food webs: research priorities for conservation and management -- Fiorenza Micheli ... -- [et al.]; title: Exotic species and conservation: research needs -- Carla D'Antonio, -- Laura A. Meyerson, -- Julie S. Denslow; title: Habitat fragmentation: consequences, management, and future research priorities -- Kendi F. Davies, -- Claude Gascon, -- Chris R. Margules; title: Conservation priorities for soil and sediment invertebrates -- Diana H. Wall, -- Paul V.R. Snelgrove, -- Alan P. Covich; title: Oceans at risk: research priorities in marine conservation biology -- Mark A. Hixon ... -- [et al.]; title: Conservation biology and the health sciences: defining the research priorities of conservation medicine -- Gary M. Tabor ... -- [et al.]; title: Global environmental change: effects on biodiversity -- William H. Schlesinger ... -- [et al.]; title: Making smart conservation decisions -- Hugh P. Possingham ... -- [et al.]; title: Ecological restoration: a key to conservation biology's future -- James A. MacMahon, -- Karen D. Holl; title: Conservation biology research: its challenges and contexts-- Michael E. Soulé,-- Gordon H. Orians.