CONSERVATION PHYSIOLOGY

Conservation physiology is a rapidly expanding multidisciplinary field that utilizes physiological knowledge and tools to understand and solve conservation challenges This novel text provides the first consolidated overview of its scope purpose and applications with a focus on wildlife It outlines the major avenues and advances by which conservation physiology is contributing to the monitoring management and restoration of wild animal populations This book also defines opportunities for further growth in the field and identifies critical areas for future investigation By using a series of global case studies contributors illustrate how approaches from the conservation physiology toolbox can tackle a diverse range of conservation issues including the monitoring of environmental stress predicting the impact of climate change understanding disease dynamics improving captive breeding and reducing human wildlife conflict Moreover by acting as practical road maps across a diversity of sub disciplines these case studies serve to increase the accessibility of this discipline to new researchers The diversity of taxa biological scales and ecosystems highlighted illustrate the far reaching nature of the discipline and allow readers to gain an appreciation for