List of contributors; Preface; General acknowledgments; Part I. Problems
and Issues: 1. Linking conservation and behavior Janine R. Clemmons and
Richard Buchholz; 2. Integrating behavior into conservation biology:
potentials and limitations Steven R. Beissinger; 3. Why hire a behaviorist
into a conservation or management team? Peter Arcese, Lukas F. Keller and
John R. Cary; 4. Conservation, behavior and 99% of the world's
biodiversity: is our ignorance really bliss? Hugh Dingle, Scott P. Carroll
and Jenella E. Loye; Part II. Conservation and the Four Levels of
Behavioral Study: 5. Environmental stress, field endocrinology and
conservation biology John C. Wingfield, Kathleen Hunt, Creagh Breuner, Kent
Dunlap, Gene S. Fowler, Leonard Freed and Jaan Lepson; 6. Conservation and
the ontogeny of behavior Ian G. McLean; 7. Hatching asynchrony in parrots:
boon or bane for sustainable use? Scott H. Stoleson and Steven R.
Beissinger; 8. Behavioral variation: a valuable but neglected biodiversity
Richard Buchholz and Janine R. Clemmons; Part III. Examples and Case
Studies: 9. Bioacoustics as a tool in conservation studies Luis F. Baptista
and Sandra L. L. Gaunt; 10. Mating systems, effective population size and
conservation of natural populations Patricia G. Parker and Thomas A. Waite;
11. The importance of social behavior studies for conservation Jan Komdeur
and Charlotte Deerenberg; 12. Linking environmental toxicology, ethology
and conservation Edmund H. Smith and Dennis T. Logan; 13. The problem of
photopollution for sea turtles and other nocturnal animals Blair E.
Witherington; 14. Light, behavior and conservation of forest-dwelling
organisms John A. Endler; 15. On becoming a conservation biologist:
autobiography and advice Katherine Ralls; Author acknowledgments; Index.
