The world’s biological diversity faces unprecedented threats. The urgent challenge facing the concerned biologist is to understand ecological processes well enough to maintain their functioning in the face of the pressures resulting from human population growth. Those concerned with the conservation of biodiversity and with restoration also need to be acquainted with the political, social, historical, economic and legal frameworks within which ecological and conservation practice must be developed. The new Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation series will present balanced, comprehensive, up-to-date and critical reviews of selected topics within the sciences of ecology and conservation biology, both botanical and zoological, and both ‘pure’ and ‘applied’. It is aimed at advanced final-year undergraduates, graduate students, researchers and university teachers, as well as ecologists and conservationists in industry, government and the voluntary sectors. The series encompasses a wide range of approaches and scales (spatial, temporal and taxonomic), including quantitative, theoretical, population, community, ecosystem, landscape, historical, experimental, behavioural and evolutionary studies. The emphasis is on science related to the real world of plants and animals rather than on purely theoretical abstractions and mathematical models. Books in this series will, wherever possible, consider issues from a broad perspective. Some books will challenge existing paradigms and present new ecological concepts, empirical or theoretical models, and testable hypotheses. Other books will explore new approaches and present syntheses on topics of ecological importance.

• Ecology and Control of Introduced Plants

  Judith H. Myers and Dawn Bazely

• Invertebrate Conservation and Agricultural Ecosystems

  T. R. New

• Risks and Decisions for Conservation and Environmental Management

  Mark Burgman

• Ecology of Populations

  Esa Ranta, Per Lundberg, and Veijo Kaitala

• Nonequilibrium Ecology

  Klaus Rohde

• The Ecology of Phytoplankton

  C. S. Reynolds

• Systematic Conservation Planning

  Chris Margules and Sahotra Sarkar

• Large-Scale Landscape Experiments: Lessons from Tumut

  David B. Lindenmayer

• Assessing the Conservation Value of Freshwaters: An International Perspective

  Philip J. Boon and Catherine M. Pringle

• Insect Species Conservation

  T. R. New

• Bird Conservation and Agriculture

  Jeremy D. Wilson, Andrew D. Evans, and Philip V. Grice

• Cave Biology: Life in Darkness

  Aldemaro Romero

• Biodiversity in Environmental Assessment: Enhancing Ecosystem Services for Human Well-Being

  Roel Slootweg, Asha Rajvanshi, Vinod B. Mathur, and Arend Kolhoff

• Mapping Species Distributions: Spatial Inference and Prediction

  Janet Franklin

• Decline and Recovery of the Island Fox: A Case Study for Population Recovery

  Timothy J. Coonan, Catherin A. Schwemm, and David K. Garcelon

• Ecosystem Functioning

  Kurt Jax

• Spatio-Temporal Heterogeneity: Concepts and Analyses

  Pierre R. L. Dutilleul

• Parasites in Ecological Communities: From Interactions to Ecosystems

  Melanie J. Hatcher and Alison M. Dunn

• Zoo Conservation Biology

  John E. Fa, Stephan M. Funk, and Donnamarie O’Connell

• Marine Protected Areas: A Multidisciplinary Approach

  Joachim Claudet

• Biodiversity in Dead Wood

  Jogeir N. Stokland, Juha Siitonen, and Bengt Gunnar Jonsson

• Landslide Ecology

  Lawrence R. Walker and Aaron B. Shiels

• Nature’s Wealth: The Economics of Ecosystem Services and Poverty

  Pieter J. H. van Beukering, Elissaios Papyrakis, Jetske Bouma, and Roy Brouwer

• Birds and Climate Change: Impacts and Conservation Responses

  James W. Pearce-Higgins and Rhys E. Green

• Marine Ecosystems: Human Impacts on Biodiversity, Functioning and Services

  Tasman P. Crowe and Christopher L. J. Frid

• Wood Ant Ecology and Conservation

  Jenni A. Stockan and Elva J. H. Robinson

• Detecting and Responding to Alien Plant Incursions

  John R. Wilson, F. Dane Panetta and Cory Lindgren

• Conserving Africa’s Mega-Diversity in the Anthropocene: The Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park Story

  Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt, Sally Archibald and Norman Owen-Smith

• National Park Science: A Century of Research in South Africa

  Jane Carruthers

• Plant Conservation Science and Practice: The Role of Botanic Gardens

  Stephen Blackmore and Sara Oldfield

• Habitat Suitability and Distribution Models: With Applications in R

  Antoine Guisan, Wilfried Thuiller and Niklaus E. Zimmermann

• Ecology and Conservation of Forest Birds

  Grzegorz Mikusiński, Jean-Michel Roberge and Robert J. Fuller

• Species Conservation: Lessons from Islands

  Jamieson A. Copsey, Simon A. Black, Jim J. Groombridge and Carl G. Jones

• Soil Fauna Assemblages: Global to Local Scales

  Uffe N. Nielsen

• Curious About Nature

  Tim Burt and Des Thompson

• Comparative Plant Succession Among Terrestrial Biomes of the World

  Karel Prach and Lawrence R. Walker

• Ecological-Economic Modelling for Biodiversity Conservation

  Martin Drechsler

• Freshwater Biodiversity: Status, Threats and Conservation

  David Dudgeon

• Joint Species Distribution Modelling: With Applications in R

  Otso Ovaskainen and Nerea Abrego

• Natural Resource Management Reimagined: Using the Systems Ecology Paradigm

  Robert G. Woodmansee, John C. Moore, Dennis S. Ojima and Laurie Richards

• The Species–Area Relationship: Theory and Application

  Thomas J. Matthews, Kostas A. Triantis and Robert J. Whittaker

• Ecosystem Collapse and Recovery

  Adrian C. Newton

• Animal Population Ecology: An Analytical Approach

  T. Royama

• Why Conserve Nature? Perspectives on Meanings and Motivations

  Stephen Trudgill

• Invading Ecological Networks

  Cang Hui and David Richardson

• Hunting Wildlife in the Tropics and Subtropics

  Julia E. Fa, Stephan M. Funk and Robert Nasi

• The Life, Extinction, and Rebreeding of Quagga Zebras

  Peter Heywood

• Impacts of Human Population on Wildlife

  Trevor J. C. Beebee

• Conservation Translocations

  Martin J. Gaywood, John G. Ewen, Peter M. Hollingsworth and Axel Moehrenschlager

• Ecology and Conservation of Mountain Birds

  Dan Chamberlain, Aleksi Lehikoinen and Kathy Martin