Research Priorities for Conservation Biology

• Foreword P. Dee Boersma

• Introduction Gordon H. Orians and Michael E Soule’


• Assessment and Management of Species at Risk. Georgina M.
Mace, Jonathan E.M. Baillie, Steven R. Beissinger, and Kent H. Redford

 • Human Alterations of Food Webs: Research
Priorities for Conservation and Management. Fiorenza Micheli, Gary A.
Polis, P. Dee Boersma, Mark A. Hixon, Elliott A. Norse, Paul V.R.
Snelgrove, and Michael E. Soule’

• Exotic Species and Conservation: Research Needs. Carla
D’Antonio, Laura A. Meyers on, and Julie S. Denslow

• Habitat Fragmentation: Consequences, Management, and Future
Research Priorities. Kendi F. Davies,  Claude Gascon, and
Chris R. Margules

• Conservation Priorities for Soil and Sediment Invertebrates.
Diana H. Wall, Paul V.R. Snelgrove, and Alan P. Covich

• Oceans at Risk:Research Priorities in Marine Conservation
Biology. Mark A. Hixon, P. Dee Boersma, Malcolm L. Hunter Jr., Fiorenza
Micheli, Elliott A. Norse, Hugh P. Possingham, and Paul V.R. Snelgrove

• Conservation Biology and the Health Sciences: Defining the
Research Priorities of Conservation Medicine.  Gary M. Tabor,
Richard S. Ostfeld, Mary Poss, Andrew P. Dobson, and A. Alonso Aguirre

• Global Environmental Change: Effects on Biodiversity.
William H. Schlesinger, James S. Clark, Jacqueline E. Mohan, and
Chantal D. Reid

• Making Smart Conservation Decisions. Hugh  P.
Possingham, S. J. Andelman, B.R. Noon, S. Trombulak, and H.R. Pulliam

• Ecological Restoration: A Key to Conservation
Biology’s Future. James A. MacMahon and Karen D. Holl

• Conservation Biology Research: Its Challenges and Contexts.
Michael E. Soule’ and Gordon H. Orians