Product Description: Through contributions from most of the leading experts from around the world, this book presents a full review of the biological, logistic and economic concerns that exist in all efforts to manage populations.

Product Description: As evidence for the rapid loss of biological diversity strengthens, there is widespread recognition of the need to identify priorities and techniques for conservation action that will reverse the trend. Much progress has been made in the development of quantitative methods for identifying priority areas based on what we know about species distributions, but we must now build an understanding of biological processes into conservation planning...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)