What Works in Conservation 2021
Does the creation of artificial reefs benefit subtidal benthic invertebrates? Is the use of organic farming instead of conventi onal farming beneficial to bat conservation?
Does installing wildlife warning reflectors along roads benefit mammal conservation? Does the installation of exclusion and/or escape devices on fishing nets benefit marine and freshwater mammal conservation?
What Works in Conservation has been created to provide practitioners with answers to these and many other questi...
Éditeur : Open Book Publishers
Lieu d’édition : Cambridge
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 27 janvier 2022
ISBN numérique : 979-10-365-2979-5
Collection : OBP collection | 6
Année d’édition : 2021
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-1-80064-272-0
Nombre de pages : lxxiv-964
1. Amphibian conservation
Rebecca K. Smith, Helen Meredith et William J. Sutherland
1. Amphibian conservation2. Bat conservation
Anna Berthinussen, Olivia C. Richardson et John D. Altringham
2. Bat conservation3. Bird conservation
David R. Williams, Matthew F. Child, Lynn V. Dicks et al.
3. Bird conservation4. Farmland conservation
Lynn V. Dicks, Joscelyne E. Ashpole, Juliana Dänhardt et al.
4. Farmland conservation5. Forest conservation
har’El Agra, Simon Schowanek, Yohay Carmel et al.
5. Forest conservation5. Forest conservation
Nigel G. Taylor, Patrick Grillas et William J. Sutherland
6. Peatland conservation7. Primate conservation
Jessica Junker, Hjalmar S. Kühl, Lisa Orth et al.
7. Primate conservation8. Shrublandand heathland conservation
Philip A. Martin, Ricardo Rocha, Rebecca K. Smith et al.
8. Shrublandand heathland conservation9. Management of captive animals
Coral S. Jonas, Lydia T. Timbrell, Fey Young et al.
9. Management of captive animals10. Someaspects of control of freshwater invasive species
David Aldridge, Nancy Ockendon, Ricardo Rocha et al.
10. Someaspects of control of freshwater invasive species11. Someaspects of enhancing natural pest control
Hugh L. Wright, Joscelyne E. Ashpole, Lynn V. Dicks et al.
11. Someaspects of enhancing natural pest control12. Enhancing soil fertility
Georgina Key, Mike Whitfield, Lynn V. Dicks et al.
12. Enhancing soil fertility13. Subtidal benthic invertebrate conservation
Anaelle J. Lemasson, Laura R. Pettit, Rebecca K. Smith et al.
13. Subtidal benthic invertebrateconservation14. Marine and freshwater mammal conservation
Anna Berthinussen, Rebecca K. Smith et William J. Sutherland
14. Marine and freshwater mammal conservation15. Terrestrial mammal conservation
Nick Littlewood, Ricardo Rocha, Rebecca K. Smith et al.
15. Terrestrial mammal conservationDoes the creation of artificial reefs benefit subtidal benthic invertebrates? Is the use of organic farming instead of conventi onal farming beneficial to bat conservation?
Does installing wildlife warning reflectors along roads benefit mammal conservation? Does the installation of exclusion and/or escape devices on fishing nets benefit marine and freshwater mammal conservation?
What Works in Conservation has been created to provide practitioners with answers to these and many other questions about practical conservation.
This book provides an assessment of the effectiveness of 2526 conservation interventions based on summarized scientific evidence. The 2021 edition contains substantial new material on bat conservation, terrestrial mammal conservation and marine and freshwater mammals, thus completing the evidence for all mammal species categories. Other chapters cover practical global conservation of primates, amphibians, birds, forests, peatlands, subtidal benthic invertebrates, shrublands and heathlands, as well as the conservation of European farmland biodiversity and some aspects of enhancing natural pest control, enhancing soil fertility, management of captive animals and control of freshwater invasive species. It contains key results from the summarized evidence for each conservation intervention and an assessment of the effectiveness of each by international expert panels. The accompanying website www.conservationevidence.com describes each of the studies individually, and provides full references.
This is the sixth edition of What Works in Conservati on, which is revised on an annual basis. As with all Open Book publications, this entire book is available to read and download for free on the publisher’s website at https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/1490 where printed and ebook editions can also be bought.
William Junior Sutherland (dir.)
William Sutherland holds the Miriam Rothschild Chair in Conservation Biology in the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge. He is president of the British Ecological Society. His previous twelve books include: Managing Habitats for Conservation (1995), Ecological Census Techniques (2006), The Conservation Handbook: Research, Management and Policy Techniques (2000). He is heavily involved in linking science and policy including through the effective use of evidence.
Lynn V. Dicks (dir.)
Lynn Dicks is a Research Fellow funded by the Natural Environment Research Council under the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Sustainability Programme (2013-2016). She works on how to use scientific evidence in policy and practice, developing methods to compile and synthesize ecological evidence and make it useful for decision-making. All her work is focused on insect pollinator conservation and ecosystem services in farmland, but the methods are widely applicable. She is a Co-ordinating Lead Author of the IPBES Thematic Assessment of Pollinators, Pollination and Food Production, due to be published in 2016. She has a degree from Oxford University in Biological Sciences (1995) and a PhD from Cambridge University (2002) on the ecology of flower-visiting insects. From 2002-2009, she worked as a science writer and science communications adviser.
Silviu O. Petrovan (dir.)
Silviu Petrovan is a Research Associate in the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, UK. He is part of the Conservation Evidence team at the University of Cambridge, a co-author of the Primate Conservation and Captive Management synopses and currently updating the Bird Conservation book. In 2018 he is co-editor of a special issue on amphibians in the journal Biological Conservation. He is a trustee at Froglife where he worked for 5 years as Conservation Coordinator (2011-2016) and undertook numerous research and practical conservation projects for amphibians, reptiles and wetland habitats, incorporating large-scale citizen science elements, automated monitoring hardware and software for ecological road mitigation and wildlife disease surveillance.
Rebecca K. Smith (dir.)
Rebecca K. Smith is a Research Associate in the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, UK. She holds degrees in the ecology and conservation of European hares (PhD, University of Bristol), Applied Ecology and Conservation (MSc, University of East Anglia) and Biology (BSc with Honours,University of Bristol). Dr Smith is part of the Conservation Evidence group at the University of Cambridge, which focuses on summarizing and disseminating scientific evidence about the effects of conservation interventions for habitats and species. She is an author of the Amphibian Conservation and Farmland Conservation synopses and has undertaken systematic reviews on the effectiveness of conservation management for birds. Prior to this work Dr Smith undertook projects developing monitoring and management strategies for high conservation priority mammal species. Her current role with Conservation Evidence includes facilitating the development and expert assessment of further synopses including reptile and forest conservation and invasive species management.

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