Behavioral approaches to conservation in the wild

List of contributors Preface General acknowledgments Part I. Problems and Issues: 1. Linking conservation and behavior Janine R. Clemmons and Richard Buchholz 2. Integrating behavior into conservation biology: potentials and limitations Steven R. Beissinger 3. Why hire a behaviorist into a conservation or management team? Peter Arcese, Lukas F. Keller and John R. Cary 4. Conservation, behavior and 99% of the world's biodiversity: is our ignorance really bliss? Hugh Dingle, Scott P. Carroll and Jenella E. Loye Part II. Conservation and the Four Levels of Behavioral Study: 5. Environmental stress, field endocrinology and conservation biology John C. Wingfield, Kathleen Hunt, Creagh Breuner, Kent Dunlap, Gene S. Fowler, Leonard Freed and Jaan Lepson 6. Conservation and the ontogeny of behavior Ian G. McLean 7. Hatching asynchrony in parrots: boon or bane for sustainable use? Scott H. Stoleson and Steven R. Beissinger 8. Behavioral variation: a valuable but neglected biodiversity Richard Buchholz and Janine R. Clemmons Part III. Examples and Case Studies: 9. Bioacoustics as a tool in conservation studies Luis F. Baptista and Sandra L. L. Gaunt 10. Mating systems, effective population size and conservation of natural populations Patricia G. Parker and Thomas A. Waite 11. The importance of social behavior studies for conservation Jan Komdeur and Charlotte Deerenberg 12. Linking environmental toxicology, ethology and conservation Edmund H. Smith and Dennis T. Logan 13. The problem of photopollution for sea turtles and other nocturnal animals Blair E. Witherington 14. Light, behavior and conservation of forest-dwelling organisms John A. Endler 15. On becoming a conservation biologist: autobiography and advice Katherine Ralls Author acknowledgments Index.