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David W. Macdonald CBE FRSE is Professor of Wildlife Conservation at the University of Oxford. Founder and Director of Oxford’s Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU), and a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. In addition to his conservation research, he is heavily involved in the practice and policy of conservation, and is also known through his films and books on wildlife.
Katherine J. Willis is the Tasso Leventis Professor of Biodiversity at the University of Oxford, Director of the Oxford Martin School Biodiversity Institute (BIO) in the Department of Zoology, and a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. She is also an adjunct Professor in Biology at the University of Bergen, Norway. Her work within the Biodiversity Institute falls under three key research areas: biodiversity beyond protected areas; ecological and evolutionary processes responsible for biodiversity; and biodiversity technologies. She is also heavily involved in the development of smartphone and web-based decision support tools to facilitate the transfer of knowledge on biodiversity science and ecosystem services into conservation, management and policy.
Contributors
Preface
Part 1: The Framework
1. Conservation priorities: Identifying need, taking action and evaluating success
Andrew Pullin, Bill Sutherland, Toby Gardner, Val Kapos and John Fa
2. Levels of Approach: on the appropriate scales for conservation interventions and planning
Jonathan Baillie, David Raffaelli and Claudio Sillero-Zubiri
3. Five Paradigms of Collective Action Underlying the Human Dimension of Conservation
Laurent Mermet, Katherine Homewood, Andrew Dobson and Raphaël Billé
4. Economic instruments for nature conservation
Christopher Barrett, Erwin Bulte, Paul Ferraro and Sven Wunder
5. Tackling unsustainable wildlife trade
Adam Dutton, Brian Gratwicke, Cameron Hepburn, Emilio Herrera and David Macdonald
6. Leadership and Listening: Inspiration for Conservation Mission and Advocacy
Andrew Gosler, Shonil Bhagwat, Stuart Harrop, Mark Bonta and Sonia Tidemann
7. The importance of the human dimension in addressing conflict with large carnivores
Amy Dickman, Silvio Marchini andMichael Manfredo
8. Citizen Science and nature conservation
Jonathan Silvertown, Christina Buesching, Susan Jacobson and Tony Rebelo
9. Nature as a source of health and well-being: is this an ecosystem service that could pay for conserving biodiversity?
Joelene Hughes, Jules Pretty and David Macdonald
Part 2: Habitat Case Studies
10. Ocean conservation: current challenges and future opportunities
Alex Rogers,Dan Laffoley, Nick Polunin and Derek Tittensor
11. Lost in muddy waters: freshwater biodiversity
Nic Pacini, David Harper, Peter Henderson, and Tom Le Quesne
12. Habitat case studies: Islands
Kim King, Mark Lomolino, Gary Roemer and Brendan Godley
13. Conservation of tropical forests: maintaining ecological integrity and resilience
Owen Lewis, Robert Ewers, Margaret Loman and Yadvinder Malhi
Part 3. Taxonomic Case Studies
14. A Global Perspective on Conserving Butterflies and Moths and their Habitats
Thomas Merckx, Blanca Huertas, Yves Basset and Jeremy Thomas
15. Bird Conservation in Tropical Ecosystems: Challenges and Opportunities
Joseph Tobias, Çaðan Þekercioðlu and Hernan Vargas
16. Conserving Large Mammals: are they a special case?
David Macdonald, Luigi Boitani, Eric Dinerstein, Herve Fritz and Richard Wrangham
17. Plant conservation: the seeds of success
Tim Walker, Stephen Harris and Kingsley Dixon
Part 4. Safeguarding the Future
18. The ‘why’, ‘what’ and ‘how’ of monitoring for conservation
Julia Jones, Greg Asner, Stu Butchart and Ullas Karanth
19. Effective conservation depends upon understanding human behaviour
Freya St. John, Aidan Keane and E.J. Milner-Gulland
20. Designing effective solutions to conservation planning problems
Andrew T. Knight, Ana. S.L. Rodrigues, Niels Strange, Tom Tew and Kerrie A. Wilson
21. Biological Corridors and Connectivity
Samuel Cushman, Brad McRae, Frank Adriaensen, Paul Beier, Mark Shirley and Kathy Zeller
22. Righting past wrongs and ensuring the future: challenges and opportunities for effective reintroductions amidst a biodiversity crisis
Axel Moehrenschlager, Debra Shier, Tom Moorhouse, Mark Stanley Price
23. Re-wilding
Chris Sandom, Josh Donlan, Jens-Christian Svenning and Dennis Hansen
24. Disease Control
Peter D. Walsh
Part 5: A Synthesis
25. Key Topics –Elephants in the room: tough choices for a maturing discipline
David W. Macdonald and Kathy Willis
Index
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