Conservation Biology (PDF)

Navjot Sodhi (1962-2011): Based at the NationalUniversity of Singapore, Navjot was one of the great minds ofconservation biology. A native of the Punjab, India, he graduatedfrom the University of Saskatchewan, Canada and then moved to anincredible fruitful 15 years documenting rain forest loss anddegradation in Southeast Asia and its effects on populations ofanimals and plants. He was best known as a conservationist, someonewho cared passionately about these rich lands and the people wholive in the region, and striving, with a large group of colleaguesand students, to devise ways to improve the sustainability of thearea while pressures on the forest mounted rapidly. Navjotsuggested the idea of this book to Peter Raven because he was sokeenly aware of the differences between attitudes and actions inconservation that predominate in rich and poor countries. Heintended to share the lessons that conservation practitioners werelearning in the countries where they live with the world. Shortly before Navjot died, he asked his student Luke Gibson tostep up and share the editorial responsibility with Peter Raven,and this book is the result. We believe that he would have likedthis book with its varied contents very much - he alwaysplaced application in front of theory, deeply wanting to preservethe world's biological richness and to support the very pooramong us. We miss him greatly, and are pleased to presenthere his last efforts in a wonderfully productive life.

Luke Gibson: At the National University of Singapore,Luke Gibson is studying tropical forest loss in Southeast Asia andits impact on biodiversity. For his PhD, he is recordingextinctions of small mammal species from small forest fragments inChiew Larn reservoir, Thailand, and the persistence - ordecline - of other mammalian ungulates and carnivores in thelowland dipterocarp forest surrounding the reservoir. Before movingto Southeast Asia, he received his Bachelor's degree fromPrinceton University and his Master's

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