Gland, Switzerland and Malaga, Spain: IUCN, 2011. – 72 p. ISBN: 978-2-8317-1307-6. Executive summary Assessment methodology Results and discussion Major threats Family and species case studies. Conservation measures in the Mediterranean Sea. Conclusions and recommendations. Appendix. IUCN Red List status of native Mediterranean marine fish species Appendix. Legally protected...
IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Malaga, Spain, 2007. – 50 p. Methodology Results and discussion Case studies International and regional instruments relevant to the conservation and management of Mediterranean chondrichthyans Fishing restrictions and management applying to chondrichthyans in the Mediterranean Chondrichthyan monitoring programmes in the Mediterranean Recommendations...
IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK, 2006. – 50 p. ISBN: 978-2-8317-0912-3. Assessment methodology Results for reptiles Results for amphibians Appendix. CD ROM contents and instructions Appendix. Non-marine reptiles of the Mediterranean basin Appendix. Reptiles that occur in northeastern Turkey, but not in the Mediterranean basin Appendix. Conservation status of...
BirdLife International and EBCC, 2013. – 312 p. The resulting report, ‘Wildlife Comeback in Europe’, describes how, why and where 37 mammal and bird species have recovered over the past 50 years, providing important lessons for the conservation of these and other species.
University of Chicago Press, 2017. — 336 p. In conservation, perhaps no better example exists of the past informing the present than the return of the California condor to the Vermilion Cliffs of Arizona. Extinct in the region for nearly one hundred years, condors were successfully reintroduced starting in the 1990s in an effort informed by the fossil record — condor skeletal...
Rome, FAO. 2002, 119 p. Published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in arrangement with DVWK Many fish species undertake more or less extended migrations as part of their basic behaviour. Amongst the best known examples in Europe are salmon (Salmo salar) and sturgeon (Acipenser sturio), which often swim several thousands of kilometres when returning...
Kilkenny: The Heritage Council of Ireland, 2000. — 114 p. — ISBN: 1-901137-27-9. This guide sets out a standard scheme for identifying, describing and classifying wildlife habitats in Ireland. It covers natural, semi-natural and artificial habitats of terrestrial and freshwater environments, of inshore marine waters, and of urban and rural areas. The classification is presented...
Springer, 2015. — 522 p. In its first English-language edition, this book introduces the many-faceted interactions of animal populations with their habitats. From soil fauna, ants and termites to small and large herbivores, burrowing mammals and birds, the author presents a comprehensive analysis of animals and ecosystems that is as broad and varied as all nature. Chapter 2...
University of Chicago Press, 2018. — 528 p. Scores of wild species and ecosystems around the world face a variety of human-caused threats, from habitat destruction and fragmentation to rapid climate change. But there is hope, and it, too, comes in a most human form: zoos and aquariums. Gathering a diverse, multi-institutional collection of leading zoo and aquarium scientists as...
Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018. — 259 p. — ISSN: 2191-0707. This book focuses on Blakiston’s fish owl and the red-crowned crane as umbrella species. Healthy river, riparian and wetland ecosystems are necessary to maintain the populations of the two species. Both species have been revered by people since ancient times, but both are currently listed as endangered because...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 398 p. — ISBN: 0521514002, 9780521514002 Integrating research into freshwater biodiversity and the role of keystone species, this fascinating book presents freshwater crayfish as representatives of human-exacerbated threats to biodiversity and conservation. It uses examples from these and other large decapod invertebrates to explore how...
Gland, Switzerland and Malaga, Spain: IUCN, 2009. – 43 p. ISBN: 978-2-8317-1161-4. Executive summary Assessment methodology Results and discussion Recommendations for priority conservation measures Appendix. Red List status of Mediterranean dragonflies Appendix. Example of species summary and distribution map Appendix. Summary of the IUCN’s Red List Categories and Criteria...
University of Virginia Press, 2013. — 184 p. We are living in the midst of the Earth’s sixth great extinction event, the first one caused by a single species: our own. In Wild Dog Dreaming , Deborah Bird Rose explores what constitutes an ethical relationship with nonhuman others in this era of loss. She asks, Who are we, as a species? How do we fit into the Earth’s systems?...
Pelagic Publishing, 2016. — 320 p. — ISBN: 978-1784270483 Camera trapping is a powerful and now widely used tool in scientific research on wildlife ecology and management. It provides a unique opportunity for collecting knowledge, investigating the presence of animals, or recording and studying behaviour. Its visual nature makes it easy to successfully convey findings to a wide...
IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK, 2006. – 44 p. ISBN: 978-2-8317-0908-6. Assessment methodology Results Discussion Future work Appendix. CD ROM contents and instructions Appendix. Species assessed and their threatened status Appendix. Example species summary and distribution map Appendix. Full list of identified threats to Mediterranean endemic freshwater fish
Whittles Publishing, 2015. — 257 p. — ISBN10: 1849951470. — ISBN13: 978-1849951470. Back from the Brink is an antidote to a world that seems full of stories of wildlife doom and gloom. Amongst all the loss of habitat and the animals and plants that are in spiraling decline, it's easy to forget that there are a huge number of positive stories too; animals threatened with...
Authors not specified. - Gland: IUCN, 2008. - 124 p. — ISBN: 978-2-8317-1125-6. The global community recognizes the importance of conserving nature. The natural systems of the planet make human life possible, by providing energy, food, water, and other material resources; but nature also makes life worth living by providing beauty, inspiration, and context for human life, as...
Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK: IUCN, 2009. – 44 p. ISBN: 978-2-8317-1163-8. Executive summary Assessment methodology Results Discussion Appendix. Red List status of Mediterranean Mammals Appendix. Introduced species assessed as Not Applicable (NA) in the Mediterranean region Appendix. Methodology for spatial analyses
Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2007. – 58 p. ISBN: 92-79-04815-9. Executive summary Assessment methodology Results Discussion Appendix. Red List status of European mammals Appendix. Species assessed as Not Applicable (NA) according to IUCN Regional Red Listing guidelines Appendix. Species listed on Annexes II, IV and V of the Habitats...
4th ed. — Academic Press, Elsevier Inc., 2015. — 1098 p. in color. — (Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates — Volume I). — ISBN: 0123850274, 0123850266, 9780123850263, 9780123850270 Readers familiar with the first three editions of Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates (edited by J.H. Thorp and A.P. Covich) will welcome the comprehensive...
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