Biodiversity Monitoring and Conservation

Bridging the Gap Between Global Commitment and Local Action

Jonathan E M Baillie editor Nathalie Pettorelli editor Sarah M Durant editor Ben Collen editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Published:16th Apr '13

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As the impacts of anthropogenic activities increase in both magnitude and extent, biodiversity is coming under increasing pressure. Scientists and policy makers are frequently hampered by a lack of information on biological systems, particularly information relating to long-term trends. Such information is crucial to developing an understanding as to how biodiversity may respond to global environmental change. Knowledge gaps make it very difficult to develop effective policies and legislation to reduce and reverse biodiversity loss.

This book explores the gap between global commitments to biodiversity conservation, and local action to track biodiversity change and implement conservation action. High profile international political commitments to improve biodiversity conservation, such as the targets set by the Convention on Biological Diversity, require innovative and rapid responses from both science and policy. This multi-disciplinary perspective highlights barriers to conservation and offers novel solutions to evaluating trends in biodiversity at multiple scales.

“If you are a teacher, conservation scientist, or biodiversity manager and want to choose one book integrating biodiversity monitoring and indicators, this is the volume to get.”  (The Quarterly Review of Biology, 1 October 2015)

“This does nothing to take away from the editors’ primary accomplishment, however, which is to have produced the most authoritative volume currently available on biodiversity monitoring.”  (Biological Conservation,1 October 2014)

“Summing Up: Recommended.  Upper-division undergraduates and above.”  (Choice, 1 March 2014)

ISBN: 9781444332926

Dimensions: 231mm x 155mm x 13mm

Weight: 771g

464 pages