Sustainable Squirrel Conservation A Modern Reassessment of Family Sciuridae
This book attempts to move the family of squirrels (Sciuridae) out of the shadow of large charismatic mammals and to highlight management failures with the goal of moving towards an improved conservation approach. Particular attention is paid to the influence of taxonomic science on squirrel conserv...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2023, 2023
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Part 1: Introduction to squirrels of the world and their conservation trends. Chapter 1: The World’s Squirrel Taxonomy
- Chapter 2: Evolution, habitat trends, and extinction rate estimates of the world squirrels
- Part 2: Squirrels of the world in the Anthropocene. Chapter 3: Habitat Trends and the Squirrel-Human Interface
- Chapter 4: A Meta-analysis based on Open Access Big Data Mining of Global Predicted Squirrel Distribution Models with Machine Learning for IUCN Conservation Status and Trend Policy Assessments
- Chapter 5: Squirrels in Cities
- Chapter : Squirrels in the Tropics
- Chapter 7: Squirrels on Islands
- Chapter 8: Tree squirrels in old-growth forests?
- Chapter 9: Can squirrels be used as indicators to identify and protect old-growth forest reserves?
- Chapter 10: Squirrel Economics
- Part 3: Problems and governance in the squirrel world. Chapter 11: Squirrel Hunting Regulations and Enforcement (Or Lack Thereof)
- Chapter12: Where do the World’s Squirrel Hotspots and Coldspots of 230+ species go with Climate change 2100?
- Chapter 13: Squirrel’s marginalization and modern lack of conservation and poor sustainability outlook as a call to good action
- Part 4: First conclusions and the way forward. Chapter 14: A Conservation Management SWOT analysis for over 300 Squirrels of the World using 132 GIS layers confirming the PESTLE assessment
- Chapter 15: First Conclusions, Success stories, and Calls-to-action for the conservation of the world’s squirrels