Bird Conservation (eBook)

lt;p>David Williams is a Research Assistant in the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Robert G. Pople is a former Research Assistant in the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

David Showler is a Research Associate in the School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia and the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Matthew F. Child is a Research Assistant in the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Lynn Dicks is a Research Associate in the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Erasmus K.H.J. zu Ermgassen is a student in the Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

William J. Sutherland is the Miriam Rothschild Professor of Conservation Biology at the University of Cambridge.

1. About this book

2. Habitat protection

3. Education and awareness raising

4. Threat: Residential and commercial development

5. Threat: Agriculture

6. Threat: Energy production and mining

7. Threat: Transportation and service corridors

8. Threat: Biological resource use

9. Threat: Human intrusions and disturbance

10. Threat: Natural system modifi cations

11. Habitat restoration and creation

12. Threat: Invasive alien and other problematic species

13. Threat: Pollution

14. Threat: Climate change, extreme weather and geological events

15. General responses to small/declining populations

16. Captive breeding, rearing and releases (ex situ conservation)

Index