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Description: |
xii, 189 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm |
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Bibliography Note: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-183) and index. |
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Contents Note: |
Contents: The theory of island biogeography -- Diversity and reserve design: the basics -- Minimum populations -- Extinction vulnerability -- Nature reserve size: the application of theory and data -- Nature reserve isolation: planning options -- Single large, or several small reserves (SLOSS) and beyond -- Research and policy -- Nature reserve size/design and management: national contrasts -- Conservation guidance in the 1990s -- Some conservation realities and philosophy -- A paleobiological perspective -- Evolutionary arrest -- Nature reserve strategy. |
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Additional Physical Forms: |
Online version: Shafer, Craig L. Nature reserves. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, ©1990 (OCoLC)647049702 |
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Elect. Loc./Access: |
Table of contents http://www.gbv.de/dms/hbz/toc/ht004002175.PDF |