Describes the characteristics, behavior, range, and habitat for more than four hundred species (view table of contents)

Essays discuss commercial uses of wildlife, subsistence hunting, wildlife farming, and the management and conservation of neo-tropical ecosystems

Describes the characteristics, behavior, range, and habitat for more than four hundred species (view table of contents)

Describes the characteristics, behavior, range, and habitat for more than four hundred species (view table of contents)

Product Description: The destruction of tropical forests is intimately intertwined with the fate of the rural poor who rely on this resource for their livelihood. provides important information for understanding the interactions of forest peoples and forest resources in the lowland tropics of Central and South America...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Describes the characteristics, behavior, range, and habitat for more than four hundred species (view table of contents)

Product Description: Large Carnivores and the Conservation of Biodiversity brings together more than thirty leading scientists and conservation practitioners to consider a key question in environmental conservation: Is the conservation of large carnivores in ecosystems that evolved with their presence equivalent to the conservation of biological diversity within those systems? Building their discussions from empirical, long-term data sets, contributors including James A...read more