Conservation Biology for All
Edited by Navjot S. Sodhi and Paul R. Ehrlich
Author Information
Navjot S. Sodhi is currently a Professor of Conservation Ecology at the National University of Singapore. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Saskatchewan (Canada). He has been studying the effects of rain forest loss and degradation on Southeast Asian fauna and flora for over 13 years. He has published over 100 scientific papers in international and regional scientific journals such as Nature, Science, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Annual Review of Ecology, Conservation Biology, Biological Conservation, and Biodiversity and Conservation. He has written/edited several books/monographs such as Tropical Conservation Biology (2007, Blackwell). He has also spent time at Harvard University as a Bullard Fellow (2001-02) and Hrdy Fellow (2008-09) where he now holds an adjunct position. He currently (or has been) is an Associate Editor/Editor of prestigious journals such as Conservation Biology, Biological Conservation, Animal Conservation, the Auk and Biotropica.
Paul R. Ehrlich is Bing Professor of Population Studies and professor of biology at Stanford University and a Fellow of the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics. His research has ranged from the evolution of DDT resistance in fruit flies, the theory of systematics, the dynamics of butterfly populations, and the behaviour of birds and reef fishes to the conservation of mammal populations and human cultural evolution. He is co-founder of the field of coevolution. He is the author or co-author of over 40 books, and some 1000 scientific papers and articles. Ehrlich is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and past president of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, and a recipient of numerous international honors, including the Crafoord Prize (given by the Royal Swedish Academy as an explicit equivalent of a Nobel in fields where the Nobel is not given) and a MacArthur "genius award".
Contributors:
Chapter authors:
Andrew F. Bennett; David M. J. S. Bowman; Corey J. A. Bradshaw; Barry W. Brook; Thomas Brooks; Kai M. A. Chan; C. Anne Claus; Paul R. Ehrlich; Toby A. Gardner; Kevin J. Gaston; Joshua Ginsberg; Clinton N. Jenkins; Lian Pin Koh; William F. Laurance; Thomas E. Lovejoy; Curt Meine; Brett P. Murphy; Carlos A. Peres; Stuart L. Pimm; Madhu Rao; Terre Satterfield; Denis A. Saunders; Cagan H. Sekercioglu; Daniel Simberloff; Navjot S. Sodhi; David Wilcove
Case study boxes:
Tom Allnutt; Murat Ataol; zge Balkız; Jos Barlow; Andrew F. Bennett; Elizabeth Bennett; Fikret Berkes; David Bickford; David M.J.S. Bowman; Mark S. Boyce; Murat Bozdoğan; Corey J.A. Bradshaw; Barry W. Brook; Alison Cameron; Kai M.A. Chan; C. Anne Claus; Tom Clements; Gretchen C. Daily; Priya Davidar; Karl Didier; Paul R. Ehrlich; Gven Eken; Emily Fitzherbert; Toby Gardner; Joshua Ginsberg; Joshua H. Goldstein; Benjamin S. Halpern; Lisa Hickey; Sęyya :Isfendiyaroğlu; McKenzie Johnson; Dicle Tuba Kılıç; Carrie V. Kappel; Claire Kremen; Heidi Kretser; William F. Laurance; Matthew Linkie; Yıldıray Lise; Jennifer B.H. Martiny; Fiorenza Micheli; Brett P. Murphy; J.P. Myers; Daniel Pauly; Ben Phalan; Mary Rose C. Posa; Robert M. Pringle; Jai Ranganathan; Madhu Rao; Peter Raven; Andriamandimbisoa Razafimpahanana; Terre Satterfield; Denis A. Saunders; Kimberly A. Selkoe; Daniel Simberloff; Robert J. Smith; Navjot S. Sodhi; Matthew Struebig; Heather Tallis; Teja Tscharntke; Kyle S. Van Houtan; Peter Vaughan; Ian G. Warkentin; Noah K. Whiteman; Tony Whitten; Douglas W. Yu