Sustainable squirrel conservation : a modern reassessment of family sciuridae / Moriz Steiner, Falk Huettman.
Steiner, Moriz, author.; Huettmann, Falk, 1967- author.
2023
QL737.R68
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Title Sustainable squirrel conservation : a modern reassessment of family sciuridae / Moriz Steiner, Falk Huettman.
Author Steiner, Moriz, author.
ISBN 9783031235474 (electronic bk.)
3031235479 (electronic bk.)
3031235460
9783031235467
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23547-4
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (384 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and color).
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-23547-4 doi
Call Number QL737.R68
Dewey Decimal Classification 599.3617
Summary This book attempts to move the family of squirrels (Sciuridae) out of the shadow of large charismatic mammals and to highlight management failures with the goal of moving towards an improved conservation approach. Particular attention is paid to the influence of taxonomic science on squirrel conservation. In addition, the authors show how human-driven climate change, global change and modern politics are shaping global squirrel populations as well as their surrounding environments and ecosystems. Squirrels are widespread around the globe, naturally occurring on every continent except Antarctica and Oceania, and they are certainly among the animals most commonly encountered in everyday life. Despite this, the authors of this volume identify worrying gaps in squirrel conservation. Squirrels are often hunted, trapped, poached, and stressed, and management strategies and legislation are often devised in the absence of proper knowledge of issues such as population sizes, taxonomies, and trends. Together, this can result in severe population declines and even species extinction. By assessing their taxonomic situation, ecology, the evolution and divergence of Sciuridae around the globe, and squirrels well-being across habitats, the authors set a baseline from which to launch future investigations into the conservation of squirrels and other species. Additionally, the authors highlight the influences of climate change, unsustainable growth, and various man-made threats to the future of this family.
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Available in Other Form SUSTAINABLE SQUIRREL CONSERVATION.
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Part 1: Introduction to squirrels of the world and their conservation trends. Chapter 1: The Worlds Squirrel Taxonomy
Chapter 2: Evolution, habitat trends, and extinction rate estimates of the world squirrels
Part 2: Squirrels of the world in the Anthropocene. Chapter 3: Habitat Trends and the Squirrel-Human Interface
Chapter 4: A Meta-analysis based on Open Access Big Data Mining of Global Predicted Squirrel Distribution Models with Machine Learning for IUCN Conservation Status and Trend Policy Assessments
Chapter 5: Squirrels in Cities
Chapter : Squirrels in the Tropics
Chapter 7: Squirrels on Islands
Chapter 8: Tree squirrels in old-growth forests?
Chapter 9: Can squirrels be used as indicators to identify and protect old-growth forest reserves?
Chapter 10: Squirrel Economics
Part 3: Problems and governance in the squirrel world. Chapter 11: Squirrel Hunting Regulations and Enforcement (Or Lack Thereof)
Chapter 12: Where do the Worlds Squirrel Hotspots and Coldspots of 230+ species go with Climate change 2100?
Chapter 13: Squirrels marginalization and modern lack of conservation and poor sustainability outlook as a call to good action
Part 4: First conclusions and the way forward. Chapter 14: A Conservation Management SWOT analysis for over 300 Squirrels of the World using 132 GIS layers confirming the PESTLE assessment
Chapter 15: First Conclusions, Success stories, and Calls-to-action for the conservation of the worlds squirrels.

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