Advances in Reintroduction Biology of Australian and New Zealand Fauna

Doug P. Armstrong is Professor of Conservation Biology at Massey University, New Zealand, and is the Oceania Chair of the IUCN Reintroduction Specialist Group. He has led a research program focused on reintroduction biology for 22 years, and has been involved in numerous New Zealand reintroduction projects in leading, participant or advisory roles. He has authored over 40 reintroduction-related papers in Australasian and international journals, and was co-editor of the 2012 book Reintroduction Biology: Integrating Science and Management. Matthew W. Hayward is an Australian wildlife manager now based at Bangor University, Wales. He has been involved in reintroduction projects in three continents, including researching the impacts of the reintroduction of large predators to Addo Elephant National Park in South Africa; studying the ecology of reintroduced European bison in Poland’s Bialowieza Primeval Forest; planning, implementing and monitoring reintroductions for the Australian Wildlife Conservancy in south-eastern Australia; and now to supervising students involved in the reintroduction of Eurasian beavers to Wales. He is a member of the IUCN Species Survival Commission Reintroduction Specialist Group and was co-editor of the 2009 book Reintroduction of Top-order Predators. Dorian Moro is a lead ecologist with Chevron Australia, and holds an Adjunct Associate Professor position with Murdoch University, Australia. He is a member of the IUCN Species Survival Commission Reintroduction Specialist Group and has authored papers relating to mammal conservation and translocation to islands and to areas with exotic predator control, translocations and wildlife disease, and population genetics as these relate to island systems. He works closely with industry and wildlife management agencies to provide strategic technical advice to advocate the use of evidence-based science to support the conservation assets of marine and terrestrial reserves. Philip J. Seddon is a Professor of Zoology and Director of the Postgraduate Wildlife Management Programme at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He has been the Bird Section Chair of the IUCN Reintroduction Specialist Group since 1998, and has been involved in bird, mammal and herptile reintroduction project planning, implementation and review in New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Canada and Japan. He has authored over 40 reintroduction-related papers and book chapters, and was co-editor of the 2012 book Reintroduction Biology: Integrating Science and Management Programs throughout the world.

1.Introduction: the development of reintroduction biology in New Zealand and Australia

2.Release strategies for fauna reintroductions: theory and tests

3.Structured decision making for designing complex release strategies

4.The influence of predators and prey naivety on reintroduction success: current and future directions

5.Disease-risk management in reintroduction

6.Considering dispersal in reintroduction and restoration planning

7.The roles of trials and experiments in fauna reintroduction programmes

8.Advances in modelling projections for reintroduced populations

9.Proactive conservation or planned invasion? Past, current and future use of assisted colonisation

10.Conserving and enhancing genetic diversity in translocation programmes

11.Metapopulation management of an extreme disease scenario

12.Using reintroduction to compensate for isolation in fragmented landscapes

13.Policy implications of ecosystem engineering for multiple ecosystem benefits

14.The impact of private of sanctuary networks on reintroduction programmes

15.Advances in the contribution of zoos to reintroduction programmes

16.Forty years of fauna translocations in Western Australia: lessons learned

17.Underwater, out of sight: lessons from threatened freshwater fish translocations in Australia

18.Practical guidelines for planning and implementing fauna translocations

19.Evolution of the translocation approval process in Australia and New Zealand

20.Future directions in reintroduction biology of Australian and New Zealand fauna

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