Wildlife Conservation Evaluation

One Introduction.- 1 Wildlife conservation evaluation: attributes, criteria and values.- 2 Assessing representativeness.- 3 Ecological succession and the evaluation of non-climax communities.- Two Approaches in different geographical areas.- 4 Evaluation of tropical land for wildlife conservation potential.- 5 Evaluation methods in the United States.- 6 Selection of important areas for wildlife conservation in Great Britain: the Nature Conservancy Council's approach.- 7 Wildlife conservation evaluation in the Netherlands: a controversial issue in a small country.- 8 Evaluation at the local scale: a region in Scotland.- Three Specific habitats and groups of organisms.- 9 Forest and woodland evaluation.- 10 Evaluating the wildlife of agricultural environments: an aid to conservation.- 11 Ornithological evaluation for wildlife conservation.- 12 Assessments using invertebrates: posing the problem.- Four General principles.- 13 Conservation evaluation in practice.- 14 Design of nature reserves.- References.- Author index.