Oxford University Press published Conservation Biology for All, an edited volume by Navjot S. Sodhi and Paul R. Ehrlich. The book provides cutting-edge but basic conservation science to a global readership. A series of authoritative chapters have been written by the top names in conservation biology with the principal aim of disseminating cutting-edge conservation knowledge as widely as possible. Important topics such as balancing conversion and human needs, climate change, conservation planning, designing and analyzing conservation research, ecosystem services, endangered species management, extinctions, fire, habitat loss, and invasive species are covered. Numerous textboxes describing additional relevant material or case studies are also included.

Hardcopies of it are available free to the developing country scientists through the Natural History Book Store.  The book (in reduced size, 6,6 Mo) and all single chapters are free to download at this page. 

The book is a non-profit for the authors and it was to provide a good textbook to people who cannot afford one.

Features

• Provides an invaluable toolkit for a large and under-resourced audience of students in developing nations
• Includes contributions from the top names in conservation biology who have contributed specific "hot topics" including tropical deforestation, invasive species, climate change, and ecosystem functioning
• Addresses the key issues in conservation biology, clearly stating the challenges but also offering solutions

About the Editors

Navjot S. Sodhi (1962-2011). Professor of Conservation Ecology at the National University of Singapore. An editor of Conservation Biology, Biological Conservation, and Animal Conservation, Navjot received his Ph.D. from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He has written/edited several books/monographs such as Southeast Asian Biodiversity in Crisis (2006, Cambridge University Press), Tropical Conservation Biology (2007, Blackwell) and Conservation Biology for All (2010, Oxford, UK). A recipient of the National Geographic Society grants, Navjot has also spent time at Harvard as Bullard Fellow and Sarah and Daniel Hrdy Fellow, and was an adjunct associate. Collected Articles of Navjot Sodhi: In Gratitude, August 2011

Paul R. Ehrlich is Bing Professor of Population Studies and professor of biology at Stanford University and a Fellow of the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics. Wikipedia

The Book

The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation thanks Ian Sherman and Helen Eaton at Oxford University Press, and the Editors for providing the entire book and all single chapters to be free to download at tropicalbio.org

• Conservation Biology for All  [pdf] - (reduced size - 6.6 Mo)
• Introduction [pdf]
• Content and Author List [pdf]
• Chapter 1. Conservation biology: past and present by Curt Meine [pdf]
• Chapter 2. Biodiversity by Kevin J. Gaston [pdf]
• Chapter 3. Ecosystem functions and services by Cagan H. Sekercioglu [pdf]
• Chapter 4. Habitat destruction: death by a thousand cuts by William F. Laurance [pdf]
• Chapter 5. Habitat fragmentation and landscape change by Andrew F. Bennett and Denis A. Saunders [pdf]
• Chapter 6. Overharvesting by Carlos A. Peres [pdf]
• Chapter 7. Invasive species by Daniel Simberloff [pdf]
• Chapter 8. Climate change by Thomas E. Lovejoy [pdf]
• Chapter 9. Fire and biodiversity by David M. J. S. Bowman and Brett P. Murphy [pdf]
• Chapter 10. Extinctions and the practice of preventing them by Stuart L. Pimm and Clinton N. Jenkins [pdf]
• Chapter 11. Conservation planning and priorities by Thomas Brooks [pdf]
• Chapter 12. Endangered species management: the US experience by David. S. Wilcove [pdf]
• Chapter 13. Conservation in human-modified landscapes by Lian Pin Koh and Toby A. Gardner [pdf]
• Chapter 14. The roles of people in conservation by C. Anne Claus, Kai M. A. Chan, and Terre Satterfield [pdf]
• Chapter 15. From conservation theory to practice: crossing the divide by Madhu Rao and Joshua Ginsberg [pdf]
• Chapter 16. The conservation biologist's toolbox – principles for the design and analysis of conservation studies by Corey J. A. Bradshaw and Barry W. Brook [pdf]

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