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A companion volume to the first edition published in 2012
Behavioural Reponses to a Changing World: Challenges and Applications examines wildlife behavioural responses to human-induced environmental change through a translational lens.
List of contents
- 1: Climate change
- 2: Noise pollution
- 3: Chemical pollution
- 4: Artificial light at night
- 5: Ocean acidification
- 6: Biological invasions
- 7: Wildlife harvesting
- 8: Habitat loss and fragmentation
- 9: Urbanisation
- 10: Multiple stressors
- 11: Conservation behaviour
- 12: Conservation breeding and translocation
- 13: Mitgating human-wildlife impacts
- 14: Plasticity and adaptation
- 15: Animal welfare
- 16: Pollinator management and food security
- 17: Parasites, pathogens, and disease
- 18: How humans and their societies respond when the world changes
- 19: Behavioural ecology for a changing world
About the author
Bob B. M. Wong is a Professor of Behavioural Ecology at Monash University, Australia. He is recognised as a world authority on wildlife behavioural responses to environmental change, and has contributed to international guidelines for applying animal behaviour research to management, policy and environmental risk assessment. Wong has served as Editor of Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Behavioral Ecology, Animal Behavior and Oikos. For more than 10 years, he has also held an elected position on the Executive Council of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology.
Ulrika Candolin is Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Her research focusses on the responses of animals to human-induced environmental changes, and the consequences these responses have for populations and the structure and function of ecosystems. She has served as Editor of Behavioral Ecology, Evolution and Journal of Fish Biology, and as panel member of numerous international funding agencies.
Summary
A companion volume to the first edition published in 2012 Behavioural Reponses to a Changing World: Challenges and Applications examines wildlife behavioural responses to human-induced environmental change through a translational lens.
