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Description: |
xiv, 318 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm. |
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General Note: |
Proceedings of the Symposium on Tropical Forest Bird Conservation, held in Cambridge at the XVIII World Conference of the International Council for Bird Preservation. |
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Bibliography Note: |
Includes bibliographical references. |
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Contents Note: |
Contents: Tropical rainforest avifaunas : an introductory conspectus / A. Keast -- The selection of critical areas and current conservation efforts in tropical forest birds / A.W. Diamond -- On the role of birds in the dynamics of neotropical forests / F.G. Stiles -- The status of forest birds in South America / D.W. Snow -- Problems hindering the conservation of tropical forest birds in Mexico and Central America / M.A. Ramos -- Present situation of the forest birds of Panama / F.S. Delgado B. -- Tropical forest birds of Colombia : a survey of problems and a plan for their conservation / J.E. Orejuela -- The endangered avifauna of southeastern Brazil : a report on the BOU/WWF expeditions of 1980/81 and 1981/82 / D.A Scott & M. de L. Brooke -- Conservation of forest birds in Costa Rica : problems and perspectives / F.G. Stiles -- The West African forest avifauna : a review / J.-M. Thiollay -- Rare forest birds and their conservation in eastern Africa / S.N. Stuart -- The conservation of tropical forest birds in Central and Southern Africa / R.L Dowsett -- The forest avifauna of western Malesia and its conservation / D.R. Wells -- Conservation of New Guinea rainforest birds / B. Beehler -- Understory birds as indicators of regeneration in a patch of selectively logged west Malaysian rainforest / M. Wong -- Threats to tropical forest birds, and critical sites for their conservation / compiled by A.W. Diamond -- Major environmental problems in Colombia / J.E. Orejuela -- Conservation of the avifauna of the forests of the Albertine Rift / A. Prigogine -- A conservation programme for Western Samoa / U. Beichle & M. Maelzer -- Rainforest in Australia / R. Buckingham -- Endangered tropical birds in Mexico and northern Central America / M.A. Ramos. |
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Additional Physical Forms: |
Online version: Conservation of tropical forest birds. Cambridge, England : The Council, ©1985 (OCoLC)645926269 |