Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chelonia (Genus)
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Chelonian Conservation and Biology
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chelonia (Genus)
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Biology and Conservation of Florida Turtles
Author: Peter A. MeylanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780965354042
Category : Turtles
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Biology and Conservation of Florida Turtles
Author: Blair WitheringtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lepidochelys kempii
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
TURTLE CONSERVATION
Author: KLEMENS MICHAEL WPublisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
"Turtle Conservation provides a comprehensive analysis of threats to turtles and tortoises worldwide. Considering the most significant problems facing the group, Michael Klemens and eighteen international experts on turtle biology and conservation chart successes and failures of past conservation programs, discuss the use of genetics and demography in turtle conservation, and propose more effective strategies that take into account chelonian biology as well as the economic and social situations affecting turtle conservation efforts. They review the outlook for marine, freshwater, semi-aquatic, and terrestrial species; show how turtles make poor candidates for most wild-harvest programs; and propose that turtle and tortoise conservation efforts be integrated into more broadly focused, locally supported land-use projects." "For land and wildlife managers as well as herpetologists and conservation biologists, this book provides a wide-ranging survey of efforts to conserve one of the world's most ancient and endangered groups."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Synopsis of the Biological Data on the Green Turtle Chelonia Mydas (Linnaeus 1758)
Author: Harold F. HirthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chelonia (Genus)
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (9th Ed.)
Author: Turtle Taxonomy Working GroupPublisher:
ISBN: 9780991036844
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Sea Turtles
Author: James R. SpotilaPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801880076
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Marine biologist James R. Spotila has spent much of his life unraveling the mysteries of these graceful creatures and working to ensure their survival. In "Sea Turtles," he offers a comprehensive and compelling account of their history and life cycle based on the most recent scientific data and suggests what we can be done to save them. Illustrated with stunning, full-color photographs. 0-808-8007-6$24.95 / Johns Hopkins University Press
Chelonian Conservation and Biology
Author: Proceedings of the Twenty-third Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation, 17 to 21 March 2003, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Author: Nicolas J. PilcherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Endangered species
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The Ecology, Exploitation and Conservation of River Turtles
Author: Don MollPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195102290
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The underlying theme of this book is that a widespread, taxonomically diverse group of animals, important both from ecological and human resource perspectives, remains poorly understood and in delcine, while receiving scant attention from the ecological and conservation community. This volume proposes a comprehensive overview of the world's river turtles' ecology, conservation, and management. It begins with a categorization of taxa which inhabit flowing water habitats followed by information on their evolutionary and physical diversity and biogeography. Within the framework of ecology, the authors discuss the composition of river turtle communities in different types of lotic habitats and regions, population dynamics, movements, reproductive characteristics and behavior, predators, and feeding relationships. In a conservation and management section, the authors identify and evaluate the nature and intensity of factors which threaten river turtle survival--almost all of which involve direct human exploitation or indirect effects of human induced habitat alteration and degradation. They then list and evaluate the various schemes which have been proposed or employed to halt declines and restore populations, and make recommendations for future management plans for specific species and regions. In closing, they state their viewpoint concerning future research directions and priorities, and an evaluation of future prospects for survival of the world's river turtle species.
