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Primate Ecology and Conservation de Eleanor Sterling

Primate Ecology and Conservation

Editat de Eleanor Sterling, Nora Bynum, Mary Blair
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 apr 2013

Putem afirma că volumul Primate Ecology and Conservation, publicat de Oxford University Press, reprezintă un instrument metodologic esențial, axat pe aplicabilitatea practică imediată a cercetării de teren. Spre deosebire de manualele teoretice clasice, această lucrare sintetizează tehnici de laborator și de management al conservării, oferind soluții concrete pentru studiul primatelor într-un peisaj global aflat în rapidă schimbare. Notăm cu interes includerea unor metode de ultimă oră, precum genetica non-invazivă și modelarea spațială, care permit colectarea datelor fără a perturba habitatele fragile.

Structura volumului este riguros adaptată nevoilor cercetătorilor aflați la început de drum, dar și profesioniștilor din domeniu. Merită menționat că editorii Eleanor Sterling, Nora Bynum și Mary Blair au alocat spațiu considerabil logisticii cercetării — de la procesul de obținere a permiselor și selectarea sitului de lucru, până la stabilirea unor relații etice și productive cu comunitățile locale. Această abordare pragmatică transformă cartea dintr-un simplu compendiu academic într-un ghid de bune practici pentru proiecte internaționale.

În contextul literaturii de specialitate, acest volum completează perspectiva oferită de Field and Laboratory Methods in Primatology de Joanna M. Setchell, adăugând o componentă robustă de management al conservării și integrare socială, pe care lucrările strict tehnice o omit adesea. Dacă Biodiversity 101 — o lucrare anterioară a editorei Eleanor Sterling — se concentra pe alfabetizarea științifică a publicului larg, Primate Ecology and Conservation rafinează aceste teme într-un cadru tehnic specializat, menținând totodată viziunea holistică asupra conservării biodiversității în Antropocen.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199659456
ISBN-10: 0199659451
Pagini: 442
Dimensiuni: 163 x 236 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.67 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Această lucrare este indispensabilă studenților la master și doctorat, oferind nu doar teorie, ci și un plan de acțiune pentru cercetarea de teren. Cititorul câștigă acces la tehnici moderne de analiză a datelor și genetică non-invazivă, esențiale pentru studiile contemporane. Este o resursă rară care explică pas cu pas cum se gestionează relația cu autoritățile și comunitățile locale, asigurând succesul și etica proiectelor de conservare.

Despre autor

Eleanor Sterling este o figură proeminentă în biologia conservării, deținând funcția de Director al Centrului pentru Biodiversitate și Conservare din cadrul Muzeului American de Istorie Naturală. De asemenea, coordonează studiile postuniversitare în Departamentul de Ecologie, Evoluție și Biologie Ambientală de la Universitatea Columbia. Expertiza sa vastă în gestionarea proiectelor de conservare la nivel mondial și în educația științifică se reflectă în rigoarea și pragmatismul acestui volum, Sterling fiind recunoscută pentru eforturile de a conecta cercetarea academică cu nevoile reale ale ecosistemelor protejate.

Descriere

The study of primate ecology and conservation has advanced rapidly in recent years. This practical volume brings together a group of distinguished primate researchers to synthesize field, laboratory, and conservation management techniques for primate ecology and conservation. The synthesis focuses on new and emerging field methods alongside a comprehensive presentation of laboratory and data analysis techniques, as well as the latest methods for determining conservation status and conservation management. This book's particular focus is on innovative ways to study primates in a changing world, including emerging methods such as non-invasive genetic techniques and advanced spatial modeling. In addition to synthesizing field and lab methods, the authors also discuss data interpretation, as well as important guiding questions and principles for students and researchers to consider as they plan research projects in primate ecology and conservation such as: how to choose a field site, acquire research permits, connect with local authorities, communities and researchers, and many other considerations. Although three chapters are dedicated to conservation methods, consideration of conservation status and threats to primate populations are considered throughout this volume where appropriate. This latest publication in the Techniques in Ecology and Conservation Series aims to provide a practical empirical reference text with an international scope, appropriate for graduate students, researchers, and conservation professionals across the globe.

Recenzii

In sum, this is an excellent book for graduate students, young researchers, and more established practitioners, in providing an exceptional range of ecological and conservation methods and techniques under a single cover. Going forward it will be a required reading for each of my graduate students as they start to contemplate their own research projects, and a volume that I will donate to collaborators in developing countries
a comprehensive resource ... a valuable empirical reference text for conservation practitioners.
this is a great book, packed with information, full of technical details but still accessible to nonexperts on a specific discipline or technique ... I believe this book will soon become a must in any University library ... it is an excellent read for students, scientists and practitioners involved with animal management and conservation.
There is a huge corpus of knowledge condensed here, that will enable anyone wishing to develop research on primates in the wild to see what is now possible, and the types of questions that can be addressed.
the content provides a good overview to the numerous topics related to the study of primate ecology and conservation. ... the book will be very useful as a quick key reference to field project managers, students, and project supervisors wishing to plan and/or teach methodological aspects of primate ecology and conservation research.

Notă biografică

Eleanor J. Sterling, Ph.D., is the Director of the American Museum of Natural History's Center for Biodiversity and Conservation (CBC). She studies the distribution patterns of biodiversity in tropical regions of the world and has more than 25 years of field research experience in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, where she has conducted surveys and censuses, as well as behavioral and ecological studies of primates, whales, and other mammals. Dr Sterling has served as an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University since 1997, and as the Director of Graduate Studies for the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology from 2002-2012. She sat on the Board of Governors of the Society for Conservation Biology from 2001-2010 and was the Chair of the Society's Education Committee from 2005-2010. She received her B.A. from Yale College in 1983 and her M. Phil and Ph.D. in Anthropology and Forestry and Environmental Studies from Yale University in 1993.Nora Bynum, Ph.D., is the Associate Vice Provost of Global Strategy and Programs at Duke University. For the past 15 years, Nora has worked in international capacity building and training in the Americas, Asia, and Africa, while continuing to conduct research on primates in Indonesia and Mexico, and research on phenology, seasonality and climate change in tropical forests of Costa Rica. Nora is also an Adjunct Professor at Duke University, where she has taught since 1995. She serves as Chair of the Board of the Amazon Center for Environmental Education and Research (ACEER) and as Chair of the Education Committee for the Board of Governors of the Society for Conservation Biology. She received her Ph.D. from Yale University in Anthropology and Forestry and Environmental Studies, and her undergraduate degree in Anthropology from Duke University.Mary E. Blair, Ph.D., is a Biodiversity Scientist at the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation at the American Museum of Natural History. Her current research integrates molecular techniques with geographic information systems (GIS) modeling to understand the behavioral, ecological, and evolutionary responses of primates to environmental change. She completed her Ph.D. in Evolutionary Primatology at Columbia University, where her dissertation research focused on how habitat fragmentation affects dispersal and the distribution of genetic variation among populations of the endangered Central American Squirrel Monkey in Costa Rica. She was an American Association of University Women (AAUW) Dissertation Writing Fellow and received her B.A. in Biology and Anthropology from Swarthmore College.