Table of Contents

1: Tim Caro: The Significance of Behavioral Ecology for Conservation Biology
Part I: Baseline Behavioral Ecological Data and Conservation Problems
2: Peter McGregor & Tom Peake: The Role of Individual Identification in Conservation Biology
3: Alexander Harcourt: Ecological Indicators of Risk for Primates, as Judged by Species' Susceptibility to Logging
4: Joel Berger: Future Prey: Some Consequences of the Loss and Restoration of Large Carnivores
Part II: Baseline Behavioral Ecological Data and Conservation Intervention
5: Sarah Durant: A Minimum Intervention Approach to Conservation: The Influence of Social Structure
6: Nadja Wielebnowski: Contributions of Behavioral Studies to Captive Management and Breeding of Rare and Endangered Mammals
7: Eberhard Curio: Behavior as a Tool for Management Intervention in Birds
Part III: Mating Systems and Conservation Problems
8: Andy Dobson & Joyce Poole: Conspecific Aggregation and Conservation Biology
9: Amanda Vincent & Yvonne Sadovy: Reproductive Ecology in the Conservation and Management of Fishes
10: Scott Creel: Social Organization and Effective Population Size in Carnivores
Part IV: Mating Systems and Conservation Intervention
11: Correigh Greene, James Umbanhowar, Marc Mangel, & Tim Caro: Animal Breeding Systems, Hunter Selectivity, and Consumptive Use in Wildlife Conservation
12: John Eadie, Paul Sherman, & Brad Semel: Conspecific Brood Parasitism, Population Dynamics, and the Conservation of Cavity-Nesting Birds
13: Mats Grahn, Asa Langefors, & Torbjörn von Schantz: The Importance of Mate Choice in Improving Viability in Captive Populations
Part V: Dispersal and Inbreeding Avoidance
14: Dirk Van Vuren: Mammalian Dispersal and Reserve Design
15: Bruce Waldman & Mandy Tocher: Behavioral Ecology, Genetic Diversity, and Declining Amphibian Populations
Part VI: Human Behavioral Ecology
16: Clare FitzGibbon: The Management of Subsistence Harvesting: Behavioral Ecology of Hunters and Their Mammalian Prey
17: Michael Alvard: Indigenous Hunting in the Neotropics: Conservation or Optimal Foraging?
18: Margo Wilson, Martin Daly, & Stephen Gordon: The Evolved Psychological Apparatus of Decision-Making Is One Source of Environmental Problems
Afterword
19: Daniel Rubenstein: Behavioral Ecology and Conservation Policy: On Balancing Science, Applications, and Advocacy
Epilogue
20: Tim Caro: How do We Refocus Behavioral Ecology to Address Conservation Issues More Directly?

Reviews

"Nearly two decades ago, geneticists, evolutionary biologists and ecologists turned their attention to applying their science and talents to provide information that would slow the extinction of species and destruction of ecosystems. Recently behavioural biologists have discovered that they too are conservation biologists. . . . This book joins a growing number of volumes and journal articles aimed at demonstrating that conservation requires an understanding of
animal behaviour. It consists of an introduction, an afterword, an epilogue and 17 chapters divided among six sections. . . . Behavioral Ecology and Conservation Biology belongs on the bookshelves of
behaviourists and conservation biologists . . . as [a] basic [reference] for understanding how behavioural processes apply to conservation. . . . [It] should help behavioural scientists make greater contributions to conserving the earth's declining biological diversity."--Animal Behaviour
"Nearly two decades ago, geneticists, evolutionary biologists and ecologists turned their attention to applying their science and talents to provide information that would slow the extinction of species and destruction of ecosystems. Recently behavioural biologists have discovered that they too are conservation biologists. . . . This book joins a growing number of volumes and journal articles aimed at demonstrating that conservation requires an understanding of
animal behaviour. It consists of an introduction, an afterword, an epilogue and 17 chapters divided among six sections. . . . Behavioral Ecology and Conservation Biology belongs on the bookshelves of
behaviourists and conservation biologists . . . as [a] basic [reference] for understanding how behavioural processes apply to conservation. . . . [It] should help behavioural scientists make greater contributions to conserving the earth's declining biological diversity."--Animal Behaviour