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Fundamentals of Conservation Biology

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Malcom Hunter provides a wonderful resource for students. He brings years of experience in the academic world to create a useful and enjoyable text. His book provides broad coverage of the major topics of applied conservation including chapters on diversity, threats to biodiversity, the maintenance of biodiversity, and the human factors of conservation work. Throughout the text Dr. Hunter provides insightful illustrations and examples carefully spanning taxonomic lines and global location including several in depth case studies. This text accurately depicts the various complications and perspectives in this increasingly broad and necessary field. From the introduction through the last chapter Hunter keeps the text accessible only rarely becoming arduous to the reader's patience. Hunter leaves out the over glorified (and extremely costly) full glossy pictures that have become commonplace in modern texts making this a great buy for students. The discussion questions provided at the end of each chapter are great and his suggestions for other readings provide excellent options for students seeking to go even further into topics of interest.

There are two glowing reviews of this book but I wanted to offer a different perspective of Fundamentals of Conservation Biology. This is my second round teaching Conservation Biology at the college level. Last year I used Groom's textPrinciples of Conservation Biology, Third Edition but this was too advanced and would make a great graduate-level book. This year I'm using Hunter and Gibbs and my students are finding it lacking. If only I could take the two books and create a book that is an average between the two. Hunter and Gibbs would be ideal for a conservation biology course for non-majors but for students that had ecology and ecology-related courses.

I had to get this book for my university's Conservation Biology class, and it has been very helpful for reinforcing the topics and studying for tests. It is very easy to follow and not a hard read. It is a well made text book.

i bought what I paid for. The back cover was falling off, but it suited my needs so I am fine with that.