Table of Contents

Section I Saving Species Through Population Biology and Viability Analyses: A Morass of Math, Myth, and Mistakes?.- 1 The Analysis of Population Persistence: An Outlook on the Practice of Viability Analysis.- 2 Rare Plant Demography: Lessons from the Mariposa Lilies (Calochortus: Liliaceae).- 3 Evaluating Extinction Risks in Plant Populations.- 4 Physical Effects of Habitat Fragmentation.- 5 Reintroduction of Rare Plants: Genetics, Demography and the Role of Ex Situ Conservation Methods.- Section II Broad Brushes and Taxonomic Tours: Summaries of the State of the Natural World.- 6 Conservation and Management of Species in the Sea.- 7 Reptilian Extinctions over the Last Ten Thousand Years.- 8 Conservation Status of the World’s Fish Fauna: An Overview.- 9 Challenges in Insect Conservation: Managing Fluctuating Populations in Disturbed Habitats.- 10 An Australian Perspective on Plant Conservation Biology in Practice.- Section III Habitat Degradation and Ecological Restoration: Hubris, Hegemony, and Healing.- 11 Critical Issues in Invasion Biology for Conservation Science.- 12 Challenges and Approaches for Conserving Hawaii’s Endangered Birds.- 13 Picking Up the Pieces: Botanical Conservation on Degraded Oceanic Islands.- 14 When Do Genetic Considerations Require Special Approaches to Ecological Restoration?.- 15 Replacing Endangered Species Habitat: The Acid Test of Wetland Ecology.- Section IV When Conservation Meets the Real World of Economics, Politics, and Tradeoffs.- 16 The Economics of Biological Diversity Conservation.- 17 The Patagonia Challenge: Melding Conservation with Development.- 18 Tropical Agroecology and Conservation Ecology: Two Paths Toward Sustainable Development.- Section V New Technologies and Novel Perspectives for the Next Generation ofConservation Biology.- 19 Using Molecular Genetics to Learn about the Ecology of Threatened Species: The Allure and the Illusion of Measuring Genetic Structure in Natural Populations.- 20 Conservation Endocrinology: Field Endocrinology Meets Conservation Biology.- 21 Global Climate Change and Species Interactions.- 22 Contributions of Spatially Explicit Landscape Models to Conservation Biology.- Epilogue A Retrospective “Gap Analysis”.

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