Overview
- A necessary first account of a keystone species for European biodiversity conservation and Mediterranean rural economies
- Provides a comprehensive review on this keystone species
- Explains how hunting and game management play an important role for rural economies and biodiversity conservation
Part of the book series: Wildlife Research Monographs (WIREMO, volume 6)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
There has been a recent upsurge of red-legged partridge research in most countries where the species is distributed, but no comprehensive review of that fresh and relevant multidisciplinary and international knowledge is available. In fact, this is probably the first scientific book on this important species, apart from Dick Potts’ excellent works on British-introduced population, or ONCFS’s (Office Nationale de la Chasse et le Faune Sauvage, France) older technical reports. This is in strong contrast with a plethora of literature in hunting magazines or non-academic books, not often precise, realistic, or well informed. Thus, the book fills a great bibliography gap that could have important social impact. The common thread of the book is the prominent role a species like this may play for research, from basic physiological or ecological knowledge to socio-economics of hunting and the rural world. The general framework of the book [I1] is the important role that hunting and game management may play in both rural economies and biodiversity conservation, with the partridge as flag species, and also in identifying the “dark drift” that industrial, incorrectly deployed management, or hunting vision may have on both sustainability of resources and nature conservation at large. The final aim of the book is identifying the best future scenario, both for partridge hunters and managers as well as the general public.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jesús Garcia González holds a PhD in zoology and physical anthropology (2003) from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He currently works as a scientific holder in the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). His interests are constantly evolving and have included conservation of wild species and populations, population and community ecology, evolutionary ecology, natural history, resource partitioning, reproductive tactics, foraging theory, species diversity, invasive species, genetics of dispersal, avian parasites, population genetics, conservation genetics, and phylogeographic analyses. He has used a variety of animal models in his research, essentially birds but also mammals, mostly linked to steppes or agrarian environments. Currently, he is working on several projects that use molecular approaches and involve fieldwork, lab work, analysis of large datasets, and applied conservation activities.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Future of the Red-legged Partridge
Book Subtitle: Science, Hunting and Conservation
Editors: Fabián Casas, Jesús T. García
Series Title: Wildlife Research Monographs
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96341-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-96339-2Published: 03 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-96341-5Published: 01 September 2022
Series ISSN: 2366-8733
Series E-ISSN: 2366-8741
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 302
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 35 illustrations in colour
Topics: Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management, Conservation Biology/Ecology, Animal Ecology