Edited by Matthew E. Gompper, Professor of Mammalogy, University of Missouri

Dr Matthew Gompper is a Professor of Mammalogy in the School of Natural Resources at the University of Missouri, USA, and also directs the university's Program in Conservation Biology. His research focuses on the interactions of free-ranging dogs and wildlife, as well as the ecology and conservation of diverse species of mammalian carnivores that range in size from weasels and martens to bears and tigers. He and his students have worked on these issues across the globe, including in India, Nepal, Brazil, Panama, Mexico and the North-eastern and Mid-western United States.

Vidya Athreya, Wildlife Conservation Society-India, Centre for Wildlife Studies, 26-2, Aga Abbas Ali Road, Bangalore. Karnataka. 560042, India

Luigi Boitani, Department of Biology and Biotechnologies, Sapienza Università di Roma, Viale dell'Università 32, Roma 00185, Italy

Adam R. Boyko, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Ryan H. Boyko, School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

James R. A. Butler, CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, GPO Box 2583, Brisbane, QLD 4001, Australia

Rob Critchlow, Boyd Orr Centre for Population and Ecosystem Health, Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, U.K.

Christopher R. Dickman, School of Biological Sciences, A08, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia

Jorge Echegaray, Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics Group, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD- CSIC), Avda. Américo Vespucio, s/n 41092 Seville, Spain

Thomas M. Gehring, Department of Biology, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, 48859, United States of America

Matthew E. Gompper, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences, School of Natural Resources, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211, United States of America

Aimee Hurt, Working Dogs for Conservation, 52 Eustis Road, Three Forks, Montana 59752, United States of America

Darryn Knobel, Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, P/Bag X04, Onderstepoort 0110, South Africa

Jeremy Koster, Department of Anthropology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45221-0380, United States of America

Jean-Marc Landry. Institute for the Promotion and Research on Guarding Animals, Martigny, Switzerland

Tiziana Lembo, Boyd Orr Centre for Population and Ecosystem Health, Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Jennifer A. Leonard, Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics Group, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD- CSIC), Avda. Américo Vespucio, s/n 41092 Seville, Spain

Nicolas Lescureux, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, PO Box 5685 Sluppen, NO-7485 Trondheim, Norway

Michael Lavelle, National Wildlife Research Center, USDA/APHIS/Wildlife Services, Fort Collins, Colorado, 80521, United States of America

Mike Letnic, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, 2052, Australia

John D.C. Linnell, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, PO Box 5685 Sluppen, NO-7485 Trondheim, Norway

Laurie Marker, Cheetah Conservation Fund, Otjiwarongo, Namibia

Adam Mckeown, CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Tropical Forest Research Centre, CSIRO Atherton, PO Box 780, Atherton, QLD 4883, Australia

Kelly K. Miller, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria, 3125, Australia

Damian Morrant, School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, PO Box 6811, Cairns, QLD 4870, Australia

Andrew Noss, 5217 NW 59th Lane, Gainesville, Florida, 32653, United States of America

Ettore Randi, Laboratory of Genetics, Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), Via Cà Fornacetta, 9, 40064 Ozzano dell'Emilia (Bologna), Italy

Ngaio Richards, Working Dogs for Conservation, 52 Eustis Road, Three Forks, Montana, 59752, United States of America

Euan G. Ritchie, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria, 3125, Australia

Eduardo A. Silva-Rodriguez, Departamento de Ecología y Biodiversidad, Facultad de Ecología y Recursos Naturales, Universidad Andrés Bello, Santiago, Chile

Theodore Stankowich, Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Long Beach, 1250 Bellflower Blvd, Long Beach, California, 90840, United States of America

Abi Tamim Vanak, Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore 560 064, India

Kurt VerCauteren, National Wildlife Research Center, USDA/APHIS/Wildlife Services, Fort Collins, Colorado, 90521, United States of America

Carles Vilà, Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics Group, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD- CSIC), Avda. Américo Vespucio, s/n 41092 Seville, Spain

Michael A. Weston, Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125, Australia

Deborah A. (Smith) Woollett, Working Dogs for Conservation, 52 Eustis Road, Three Forks, Montana, 59752, United States of America

"The amount of information contained in this book is staggering, as are the references accompanying each chapter. I know I shall be constantly pulling it off my shelf to revisit the wealth of data summarized by the authors. I learned a lot from reading it and can see it being adopted in advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in areas such as conservation biolody, conservation behavior, behavior ecology and animal behavior." - Marc Bekoff, Biological Conservation

"This book is an excellent compendium of dog ecology from a wildlife management perspective [...] HIghly recommended." - Choice

"Free-Ranging Dogs and Wildlife Conservation is a valuable book for both the lay person and the professional scientist. It is a rich tome and fills a large missing gap in our knowledge. As such, I fully expect that 10 years from now this book will be considered a seminal publication that has been used to guide many new research paths and conservation actions." - Christopher A. Lepczyk, The Journal of Wildlife Management