Species Conservation and Management: Case Studies includes CD-ROM

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 552 pages
• Published by: Oxford University Press, USA October 7, 2004
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0195166469
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0195166460
• Book Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.3 inches
• Weighs: 2 pounds

Product Description
This edited volume is a collection of population and metapopulation models for a wide variety of species, including plants, invertebrates, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. Each chapter of the book describes the application of RAMAS GIS 4.0 to one species, with the aim of demonstrating how various life history characteristics of the species are incorporated into the model, and how the results of the model has been or can be used in conservation and management of the species. The book comes with a CD that includes a demo version of the program, and the data files for each species.

About The Author
H. Resit Akcakaya is at Applied Biomathematics, Inc.. Mark Burgman is at University of Melbourne.

Reader Reviews
This edited book covers conservation planning and population viability analyses in a clear and comprehensive fashion. The inclusion of chapters on plants, invertebrates, fishes, birds and mammals makes it particularly attractive for teaching students with broad taxonomic interests in conservation biology. Each chapter uses models from the software program RAMAS GIS which accompanies the book on CD. I use the RAMAS GIS software in my graduate course in landscape ecology and the material in this book provided a great diversity of data sets and case histories. The program has excellent graphics and is well documented enabling the reader to understand what models are being used and the assumptions of those models. I strongly recommend the book for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in population and conservation biology.