Dear Behavioral Ecologists and Conservation Biologists,
I would like to make you aware of an excellent compendium of papers
guest edited by Burt P. Kotler, Douglas W. Morris, and Joel S. Brown
on “Behavioral Indicators and Conservation” compiled in a special
issue of the Israel Journal of Ecology & Evolution:
Israel Journal of Ecology & Evolution
Vol. 53, Nos. 3-4, 2007
BEHAVIORAL INDICATORS AND CONSERVATION
Editors: Burt P. Kotler, Douglas W. Morris, and Joel S. Brown
R.D. Holt. IJEE Soapbox: The unraveling of nature’s information webs:
The next depressing frontier in conservation?
B.P. Kotler, D.W. Morris, and J.S. Brown. Behavioral indicators and
conservation: Wielding “the biologist’s tricorder”
C.M. Taylor, D.B. Lank, A.C. Pomeroy, and R.C. Ydenberg. Relationship
between stopover site choice of migrating sandpipers, their population
status, and environmental stressors
O. Olsson and M.N. Molokwu .On the missed opportunity cost, GUD, and
estimating environmental quality
C.J. Whelan and D.M. Jedlicka. Augmenting population monitoring
programs with behavioral indicators during ecological restorations
K.R. Searle, N.T. Hobbs, and I.J. Gordon. It’s the “foodscape”, not
the landscape: Using foraging behavior to make functional assessments
of landscape condition
B.A. Nolet, T. de Boer, and P.P. de Vries. Habitat quality estimated
from head-dipping time in trampling swans
J.A. van Gils, A. Dekinga, P.J. van den Hout, B. Spaans, and T.
Piersma. Digestive organ size and behavior of red knots (Calidris
canutus) indicate the quality of their benthic food stocks
Y. Mori, Y. Mitani, Y. Watanabe, and K. Sato. A behavioral indicator
of prey patch richness derived from diving behavior: The proportion of
residence time to the standard time
M.R. Heithaus, A.J. Wirsing, A. Frid, and L.M. Dill. Behavioral
indicators in marine conservation: Lessons from a pristine seagrass
ecosystem
D.W. Morris and S. Mukherjee. Is density-dependent resource harvest a
reliable habitat indicator for conservation and management?
K.A. Schmidt and E.M. Schauber. Behavioral indicators of predator
space use: Studying species interactions through the behavior of
predators
A. Persson and E. Nilsson. Foraging behavior of benthic fish as an
indicator of ecosystem state in shallow lakes
N. Owen-Smith and J.W. Cain III. Indicators of adaptive responses in
home range utilization and movement patterns by a large mammalian
herbivore
N. Wielebnowski and J. Watters. Applying fecal endocrine monitoring to
conservation and behavior studies of wild mammals: Important
considerations and preliminary tests
Anyone interested in ordering this issue: [email protected]
If you wish to learn more about this journal and other special
issues: http://israelsciencejournals.com/eco.htm
Leon Blaustein
Community Ecology Laboratory
Institute of Evolution and Department of Evolutionary and
Environmental Biology
Faculty of Sciences
University of Haifa, Haifa 31905 Israel
Tel. 972-4-8240736 (office)
Tel. 972-4-9998881 (home)
Cell: 052-555-1081
Institute Fax: 972-4-8246554
Alternative e-mail: [email protected]
http://research.haifa.ac.il/~leon/index.htm
Chief Editor, Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution
http://israelsciencejournals.com/eco.htm
e-mail: [email protected]
