Understanding and predicting the ecological consequences of different management
alternatives is becoming increasingly important to support environmental management …

Population viability analysis (PVA) is useful in management of imperiled species.
Applications range from research design, threat assessment, and development of …

This book offers a concise but comprehensive introduction to desert ecology and adopts a
strong evolutionary focus. As with other titles in the Biology of Habitats Series, the emphasis …

Rapid environmental changes are threatening biodiversity and exposing species to novel
ecological and evolutionary pressures. The scientific community increasingly recognizes the …

The field of plant population ecology has advanced considerably in the last decade since
the first edition was published. In particular there have been substantial and ongoing …

Ecosystems respond in various ways to disturbances. Quantifying ecological stability
therefore requires inspecting multiple stability properties, such as resistance, recovery …

Plant translocation is a useful tool for implementing assisted gene flow in recovery plans of
critically endangered plant species. Although it helps to restore genetically viable …

Urban environments consist of a mosaic of natural fragments, planned and unintentional
habitats hosting both introduced and spontaneous species. The latter group exploits …

Environmental change is expected to shift the geographic range of species and
communities. To estimate the consequences of these shifts for the functioning and stability of …

The pink pigeon (Nesoenas mayeri) is an endemic species of Mauritius that has made a
remarkable recovery after a severe population bottleneck in the 1970s to early 1990s. Prior …