Connectivity conservation management : a global guide (with particular reference to mountain connectivity conservation) / edited by Graeme L. Worboys, Wendy L. Francis and Michael Lockwood.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The connectivity conservation imperative -- Connectivity science -- Scoping the territory: considerations for connectivity conservation managers -- Africotropical connectivity conservation initiatives -- Australain connectivity initiatives -- Indomalayan connectivity initiatives -- Nearctic connectivity initiatives -- Neotropical connectivity initiatives -- Palaearctic connectivity initiatives -- Themes and lessons from global experience in connectivity conservation -- Connectivity conservation management framework and key tasks -- Challenges and opportunities for connectivity conservation.

"In an era of climate change, deforestation and massive habitat loss, we can no longer rely on parks and protected areas as isolated 'islands of wilderness' to conserve and protect vital biodiversity. Increasing connections are being considered and made between protected areas and 'connectivity' thinking has started to expand to the regional and even the continental scale to match the challenges of conserving biodiversity in the face of global environmental change. This groundbreaking book is the first guide to connectivity conservation management at local, regional and continental scales. Written by leading conservation and protected area management specialists under the auspices of the World Commission on Protected Areas of IUCN, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, this guide brings together a decade and a half of practice and covers all aspects of connectivity planning and management."--Publisher's description.