Customer Reviews

Principles of Conservation Biology

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Excellent book, either for the serious student or for someone just interested in the subject. However most of the graphics are in black and white, so it takes some getting used to, but there are some nice color plates in the middle of the book. It is generally written well and seldom assumes you know what they are talking about without an explanation of some of the concepts.

Individual chapters are done well. Case studies and essays are a nice touch and make great reading assignments for students. However, I find the redundancy of information a bit frustrating. To make matters worse, there are many times when the same information (e.g., population dynamics) is presented using different terminology. There is another issue in having to wade through pages of examples in the text to distill out a generalization. It would also be nice for the authors to address some of the more public issues directly with references. For example, in the Global Warming chapter, I would have liked to have "common misconceptions" and then the studies that support the scientific consensus. I think this is a valuable text but the next iteration should aim to cut down on redundancy, standardize terms, and have the major points of each chapter at the beginning of each chapter. Just to make life easier, it would be nice if there was a CD to accompany the text with figures and graphs from the text.

I have come across Principles of Conservation Biology, while I was an undergraduate student. I remember wondering these times, whether I have changed or that textbook makes itself read. These days we had to read to get good grades, and we used to read literature to entertain ourselves; until this book. This book is both a textbook and a philospphy, a literature, a travel journal, a life book. It synthesizes and delivers so diverse subjects so nicely, elegantly and fully that, it becomes the book the conservation biology deserves. This book is not only for students or practitioners of nature conservation, but for everybody who wishes to understand our role in nature as human beings. This book gets to you with a detailed enough, realistic and widescope view, written in a way that harmonizes scholar, everyday, and philosophical language. A must read.

Easy, fluid reading, a simple way of understanding the complexities of the field and the issues that challenge the conservation of biodiversity by presenting brief study cases in each chapter, all under a great historical overview of science. a great to tool for any natural science advocate.

I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in this subject. It has a lot of great case studies and examples. Some conservation biologists call this one "the Concervation biology bible".

Hard to read because citations appear in text rather than footnotes or endnotes and it breaks up the reading. Also, making it difficult to read, is less than perfect grammar and questionable sentence and paragraph structure. After you get past all the problems, the information, what's not lost in the read, seems useful.

Received the book relatively shortly after placing the order via the free shipping option. Book was in the exact quality as described with no unfortunate suprises.

I received the book as promised. The book was is perfect condition. Prompt Shipping. Many thanks!

It is missing pages, pages I need to be able to read that aren't there. Kinda upset.

The book came as described minus the mention of the missing pages.