Essentials of conservation biology / Richard B. Primack

Includes appendix (pages 512-514) and index (pages 549-564).

Includes bibliography (pages 515-547).

Part I. Major Issues that Define the Discipline -- 1 What is conservation biology? -- 2 What is biological diversity? -- 3 Where is biological diversity found? -- Part II. Threats to Biological Diversity -- 4 Loss of biological diversity -- 5 Vulnerability to extinction -- 6 Habitat destruction, fragmentation, and degradation -- 7 Exotic species introductions, disease, and overexploitation -- Part III. The Value of Biological Diversity -- 8 Direct economic values of diversity -- 9 Indirect economic values -- 10 The ethical value of biological diversity -- Part IV Conservation at the Population Level -- 11 The problems of small populations -- 12 Population biology of endangered species -- Part V. Practical Applications -- 13 Establishing protected areas -- 14 Designing protected areas -- 15 Managing protected areas -- 16 Outside protected areas : working with people and restoring the environment -- 17 Ex situ conservation strategies -- 18 Establishing new populations -- Part VI. Conservation and Human Societies -- 19 How are species and habitats legally protected? -- 20 International agreements -- 21 International funding -- 22 An agenda for the future.