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golden eagles (Aquila chrysaetos) have recently immigrated into the Channel Islands from the mainland and begun to breed success ...
are species whose male ornaments (horn, tusks, antlers, or other body parts) make them particularly attractive to humans, regard ...
specialists for whom habitat loss is most crucial – those species whose survival depends critically on particular, usually rare, ...
numbers even further. Their effect increases with declining population size, modified further by the sex and age structure of th ...
18 Conservation in practice In Chapter 17 we examined the ways in which demographics and genetics contribute, at least potential ...
malfunction is probably the second most important but it usually requires that the population is driven to low numbers before de ...
suffer higher mortality when dispersing across unsuitable habitat between patches (Temple 1991). 3 The greater length of habitat ...
The changes in the macropod fauna included the extinction of six species and the decline of 23 species, of which two died out co ...
be the bird’s habitat. This was obviously a species on its last legs, but that problem was not recognized until 1969 after which ...
The black-footed ferret once ranged across most of the central plains of North America from southern Canada to Texas. Its lifest ...
Commercial hunting appears to be the overriding cause of the virtual extinction of the muskoxen on the Canadian mainland. Legisl ...
of indigenous birds. They suggested that these results reflected competition, mainly for food. The Japanese white-eye (Zosterops ...
of the prehistoric and historic Indians and caught the eye (and trigger finger) of the early European explorers. California cond ...
Hawaiian birds Avian malaria and avian pox have been suggested as contributing to the decline of the Hawaiian birds (Warner 1968 ...
Howe woodhen were unambiguously caused by an introduced predator. The extinc- tion of the Arabian oryx in the wild (although sub ...
but by the early nineteenth century its distribution had contracted severely with the clearing of much of the forest of Puerto R ...
caballus) in Mongolia (Ryder 1993), and the addax (Addax nasomaculatus) in Niger (Dixon et al. 1991). In any event the liberated ...
if at all. The first was Kruger National Park established in 1926 on a game reserve proclaimed in 1898. Serengeti, in Tanzania, ...
4 The fashion shifted to the conservation of representative examples of plant and animal associations. The wording is from Bell’ ...
2 If the aim is to give full rein to the processes of the system and to accept the resul- tant, often transient, states that tho ...
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