Reintroduction of Top-Order Predators: Using Science to Restore One of the Drivers of Biodiversity

Reintroduction of Top-Order Predators

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-9

  Hayward, Matt W ^a   Somers, Michael J ^b  

^a MAMMAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Conservation scientists, and describing natural history of threatened species essential requirement of successful conservation management; Determining success of reintroductions of top order predators an essential practice; Identifying top order predators conservation managers to develop confidence in attempting reintroductions; Reintroduction attempt to establish species within its historical range, deliberate movement of wild individuals between parts of their extant range; Threatening processes affecting top order predators and top order predator integration into human landscapes underway; Top order predators persecuted by humans brown bears, Ursus arctos, in Europe, snow leopards, Uncia uncia, in Himalayas or jaguars, Panthera onca, in Venezuela; Top order predators describing carnivorous mammalian predators; Top order predators relatively rare in natural ecosystems; Top order predators using science to restore drivers of biodiversity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887604114     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444312034.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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