Dear Colleagues,
I would like to make you aware of a special issue on behavioral
indicators for conservation that has been published in the last
couple of weeks in the Israel Journal of Ecology & Evolution. The
contents are pasted below. For further information about this issue
or about the journal, please check the link http://
israelsciencejournals.com/eco.htm
Best wishes,
Leon
Israel Journal of Ecology & Evolution Vol. 53, Nos. 3–4, 2007
Special issue on BEHAVIORAL INDICATORS AND CONSERVATION
Guest Editors: Burt P. Kotler, Douglas W. Morris, and Joel S. Brown
IJEE Soapbox: The unraveling of nature’s information webs: The next
depressing frontier in conservation? R.D. Holt 229
Behavioral indicators and conservation: Wielding “the biologist’s
tricorder” B.P. Kotler, D.W. Morris, and J.S. Brown 237
Relationship between stopover site choice of migrating sandpipers,
their population status, and environmental stressors C.M. Taylor,
D.B. Lank, A.C. Pomeroy, and R.C. Ydenberg 245
On the missed opportunity cost, GUD, and estimating environmental
quality O. Olsson and M.N. Molokwu 263
Augmenting population monitoring programs with behavioral indicators
during ecological restorations C.J. Whelan and D.M. Jedlicka 279
It’s the “foodscape”, not the landscape: Using foraging behavior to
make functional assessments of landscape condition K.R. Searle, N.T.
Hobbs, and I.J. Gordon 297
Habitat quality estimated from head-dipping time in trampling swans
B.A. Nolet, T. de Boer, and P.P. de Vries 317
Digestive organ size and behavior of red knots (Calidris canutus)
indicate the quality of their benthic food stocks J.A. van Gils, A.
Dekinga, P.J. van den Hout, B. Spaans, and T. Piersma 329
A behavioral indicator of prey patch richness derived from diving
behavior: The proportion of residence time to the standard time Y.
Mori, Y. Mitani, Y. Watanabe, and K. Sato 347
Behavioral indicators in marine conservation: Lessons from a pristine
seagrass ecosystem M.R. Heithaus, A.J. Wirsing, A. Frid, and L.M.
Dill 355
Is density-dependent resource harvest a reliable habitat indicator
for conserva- tion and management? D.W. Morris and S. Mukherjee 371
Behavioral indicators of predator space use: Studying species
interactions
through the behavior of predators K.A. Schmidt and E.M. Schauber 389
Foraging behavior of benthic fish as an indicator of ecosystem state
in shallow lakes. A. Persson and E. Nilsson 407
Indicators of adaptive responses in home range utilization and
movement pat-
terns by a large mammalian herbivore N. Owen-Smith and J.W. Cain III 423
Applying fecal endocrine monitoring to conservation and behavior
studies of wild mammals: Important considerations and preliminary tests
N. Wielebnowski and J. Watters 439
Guidelines for contributors 461
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)
Institute Fax: 972-4-8246554
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http://research.haifa.ac.il/~leon/index.htm
Chief Editor, Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution
http://israelsciencejournals.com/eco.htm
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