Overview
- Focuses on digital databases, GIS layers, open access, data mining and inventory issues
- The online appendix of this book provides relevant and highly sought after background material for courses or field work
- Provides detailed information on field studies in the tropics ?
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (32 chapters)
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About this book
This book highlights key results and lessons learnt from two field sites, La Suerte in Costa Rica and Ometepe Nicaragua. It provides long term data on species abundance and distribution. Primates receive specific attention in this book, as they are flagship species and good indicators for the “health” of an ecosystem, but as well a money maker. Many primate species are sensitive to habitat alteration, and are often hunted out first. But they play an important role as seed dispersal agents for the regeneration of the forest. The book then compares results from the two field sites with regional trends, and explores potential solutions such as REDD+. This book strongly calls for new approaches in conservation, it makes the case for looking beyond the pure species biology and classic conservation angle and to take into account the economic and political realities.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dr. Falk Huettmann is Associate Professor in the Biology and Wildlife Department, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska-Fairbanks. His research interests are in wildlife/habitat modeling, GIS and remote sensing, and data management worldwide.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Central American Biodiversity
Book Subtitle: Conservation, Ecology, and a Sustainable Future
Editors: Falk Huettmann
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2208-6
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-2207-9
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-4394-4
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-2208-6
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 805
Number of Illustrations: 179 b/w illustrations, 80 illustrations in colour
Topics: Biodiversity, Conservation Biology/Ecology, Theoretical Ecology/Statistics, Landscape Ecology