The number of primates on the brink of extinction continues to grow, and the need to respond with effective conservation measures has never been greater. This book provides a comprehensive and state-of-the-art synthesis of research principles and applied management practices for primate conservation. It begins with a consideration of the biological, intellectual, economic, and ecological importance of primates and a summary of the threats that they face, before
going on to consider these threats in more detail with chapters on habitat change, trade, hunting, infectious diseases, and climate change. Potential solutions in the form of management practice are
examined in detail, including chapters on conservation genetics, protected areas, and translocation.An Introduction to Primate Conservation brings together an international team of specialists with wide-ranging expertise across primate taxa. This is an essential textbook for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and established researchers in the fields of primate ecology and conservation biology. It will also be a valuable reference for conservation practitioners,
land managers, and professional primatologists worldwide.
The number of primates on the brink of extinction continues to grow, and the need to respond with effective conservation measures has never been greater. This book provides a comprehensive and state-of-the-art synthesis of research principles and applied management practices for primate conservation. It begins with a consideration of the biological, intellectual, economic, and ecological importance of primates and a summary of the threats that they face, before
going on to consider these threats in more detail with chapters on habitat change, trade, hunting, infectious diseases, and climate change. Potential solutions in the form of management practice are
examined in detail, including chapters on conservation genetics, protected areas, and translocation.An Introduction to Primate Conservation brings together an international team of specialists with wide-ranging expertise across primate taxa. This is an essential textbook for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and established researchers in the fields of primate ecology and conservation biology. It will also be a valuable reference for conservation practitioners,
land managers, and professional primatologists worldwide.
1: Serge Wich & Andrew J. Marshall: An introduction to primate
conservation
2: Andrew J. Marshall & Serge A. Wich: Why conserve primates?
3: Alison Cotton, Fay Clark, Jean P. Boubli & Christoph Schwitzer:
IUCN Red List of Threatened Primate Species
4: Colin Groves: Species concepts and conservation
5: Milena Salgado Lynn, Pierfrancesco Sechi, Lounès Chikhi & Benoît
Goossens: Primate conservation genetics at the dawn of conservation
genomics
6: Genevieve Campbell, Josephine Head, Jessica Junker & Anna K.I.
Nekaris: Primate abundance and distribution: Background concepts
and methods
7: Mitchell Irwin: Habitat Change: Loss, Fragmentation and
Degradation
8: Vincent Nijman & Aoife Healy: Present-day international primate
trade in historical context
9: John E. Fa & Nikki Tagg: Hunting and primate conservation
10: Charles L. Nunn & Thomas R. Gillespie: Infectious disease and
primate conservation
11: Amanda H. Korstjens & Alyson Hillyer: Primates and climate
change: a review of current knowledge
12: David Gaveau, Serge A. Wich, & Andrew J. Marshall: Are
protected areas conserving primate habitat in Indonesia?
13: Erik Meijaard: The role of multifunctional landscapes in
primate conservation
14: Tatyana Humle & Catherine Hill: People-primate interactions:
implications for primate conservation
15: Benjamin B. Beck: The role of translocation in primate
conservation
16: John Garcia-Ulloa & Lian Pin Koh: Payment for ecosystem
services: the role of REDD+ in primate conservation
17: Sandra Tranquilli: The role of evidence-based conservation in
improving primate conservation
18: Andrew J. Marshall & Serge A. Wich: Some future directions for
primate conservation research
Serge A. Wich, School of Natural Sciences and Psychology, Liverpool
John Moores University, Andrew J. Marshall, Department of
Anthropology, Program in the Environment, and School of Natural
Resources and Environment, University of Michigan
This volume is an excellent compendium of the basis for primate
conservation, and the issues, means, and diverse aspects involved.
A good introduction it is, and clearly an essential, easy-to-read,
very nicely produced textbook for university courses.
*Anthony B. Rylands, Quarterly Review of Biology*
The book fills a gap and will do a great job in training the next
generation of primatologists and conservationists in understanding
the proximate causes and mechanisms of the primate extinction
crisis.
*Eckhard W. Heymann, Primate Biology*
An Introduction to Primate Conservation is a welcome introduction
for anyone interested in conservation topics on a broad scale. In
this book, and with the exception of a few well-described examples,
we rarely get to know the individuals we wish to protect. But after
reading the book, we know how to do so. That is, we know what the
issues are, what the threats are, and how to ideally tackle
them.
*Thibaud Gruber, Conservation Biology*
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