Preface
PART I - Reviews
1: David W. Macdonald, Andrew J. Loveridge, and Kristin Nowell:
Dramatis personae: an introduction to the wild felids
2: Lars Werdelin, Nobuyuki Yamaguchi, Warren E. Johnson, and
Stephen J. O'Brien: Phylogeny and evolution of cats (Felidae)
3: Andrew C. Kitchener, Blaire Van Valkenburgh, and Nobuyuki
Yamaguchi: Felid form and function
4: Melanie Culver, Carlos Driscoll, Eduardo Eizirik, and Göran
Spong: Genetic applications in wild felids
5: David W. Macdonald, Anna Mosser, and John L. Gittleman: Felid
society
6: Andrew J. Loveridge, Sonam W. Wang, Laurence G. Frank, and John
Seidensticker: People and wild felids: conservation of cats and
management of conflicts
7: K. Ullas Karanth, Paul Funston, and Eric Sanderson: Many ways of
skinning a cat: tools and techniques for studying wild felids
8: David Wildt, William Swanson, Janine Brown, Alex Sliwa, and
Astrid Vargas: Felids ex situ for managed programmes, research, and
species recovery
9: Linda Munson, Karen A. Terio, Marie-Pierre Ryser-Degiorgis,
Emily Lane, and Franck Courchamp: Wild felid diseases: conservation
implications and management strategies
PART II - Case Studies
10: Meggan E. Craft: Ecology of infectious diseases in Serengeti
lions
11: Andrew J. Loveridge, Graham Hemson, Zeke Davidson, and David W.
Macdonald: African lions on the edge: reserve boundaries as
'attractive sinks'
12: John Seidensticker, Eric Dinerstein, Surendra P Goyal, Bhim
Gurung, Abishek Harihar, A.J.T. Johnsingh, Anil Manandhar, Charles
McDougal, Bivash Pandav, Mahendra Shrestha, J. L. David Smith,
Melvin Sunquist, and Eric Wikramanayake: Tiger range collapse and
recovery at the base of the Himalayas
13: Dale G. Miquelle , John M. Goodrich, Evgeny N. Smirnov, Phillip
A. Stephens, Olga Yu Zaumyslova, Guillame Chapron, Linda Kerley,
Andre A. Murzin, Maurice G. Hornocker, and Howard B. Quigley: The
Amur tiger: a case study of living on the edge
14: Guy A. Balme, Luke T.B. Hunter, Pete Goodman, Hayden Ferguson,
John Craigie, and Rob Slotow: An adaptive management approach to
trophy hunting of leopards Panthera pardus: a case study from
KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
15: Laurie Marker, Amy Dickman, Gus Mills, and David Macdonald:
Cheetahs and ranchers in Namibia: a case study
16: Sarah M. Durant, Amy J. Dickman, Tom Maddox, Margaret N.
Waweru, Tim Caro, and Nathalie Pettorelli: Past, present and future
of cheetahs in Tanzania: their behavioural ecology and
conservation
17: Sandra Cavalcanti, Silvio Marchini, Alexandra Zimmermann, Eric
M. Gese, and David W. Macdonald: Jaguars, livestock and people in
Brazil: realities and perceptions behind the conflict
18: Scott C. Silver, Bart J. Harmsen, Linde E. T. Ostro, Rebecca J.
Foster, and C. Patrick Doncaster: The ecology of jaguars in the
Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary, Belize
19: Rodney Jackson, Charudutt Mishra, Thomas M. McCarthy, and Som
B. Ale: Snow leopards, conflict, and conservation
20: Tucker Murphy and David W. Macdonald: Pumas and people: lessons
in the landscape of tolerance from a widely distributed felid
21: Dave Onorato, Chris Belden, Mark Cunningham, Darrell Land, Roy
McBride, and Melody Roelke: Long term research on the Florida
panther (Puma concolor coryi): historical findings and future
obstacles to population persistence
22: David W. Macdonald, Nobuyuki Yamaguchi, Andrew C. Kitchener,
Mike Daniels, Kerry Kilshaw, and Carlos Driscoll: Reversing cryptic
extinction: the history, present and future of the Scottish
wildcat
23: Urs Breitenmoser, Andreas Ryser, Anja Molinari-Jobin, Fridolin
Zimmermann, Heinrich Haller, Paolo Molinari, and Christine
Breitenmoser-Würsten: The changing impact of predation as a source
of conflict between hunters and reintroduced lynx in
Switzerland
24: Pablo Ferreras, Alejandro Rodríguez, Francisco Palomares, and
Miguel Delibes: Iberian lynx: the uncertain future of a critically
endangered cat
25: Mark O'Donoghue, Brian G. Slough, Kim G. Poole, Stan Boutin,
Elizabeth J. Hofer, Garth Mowat, and Charles J. Krebs: Cyclical
dynamics and behaviour of Canada lynx in northern Canada
26: Alexander Sliwa, Marna Herbst, and Gus Mills: Black-footed cats
(Felis nigripes) and African wild cats (Felis silvestris): a
comparison of two small felids from South African arid lands
27: Tadeu G. de Oliveira, Marcos A. Tortato, Leandro Silveira,
Carlos Benhur Kasper, Fábio D. Mazim, Mauro Lucherini, Anah T.
Jácomo, José B.G. Soares, Rosane V. Marques, and Mel Sunquist:
Ocelot ecology and its effect on the small-felid guild in the
lowland Neotropics
28: Jorgelina Marino, Mauro Lucherini, Lilian Villalba, Magdalena
Bennett, Daniel Cossíos, Agustín Iriarte, Pablo Perovic, and
Claudio Sillero-Zubiri: Highland cats: ecology and conservation of
the rare and elusive Andean cat
PART III - Conclusions
29: David W. Macdonald, Andrew J. Loveridge, and Alan Rabinowitz:
Felid Futures: crossing disciplines, borders, and generations
References
Index
David Macdonald is Director of the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit in the Department of Zoology at Oxford University. Andrew Loveridge is a career wildlife biologist and conservationist. He is a member of the IUCN/SSC Canid Specialist Group and African Lion Working Group.
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model for reference works on other groups of organisms of
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