Represents the work of thirty leading experts - including Michael Soulé, John Terborgh, Reed Noss, Paul Paquet, Dan Simberloff, Rodolfo Dirzo, J Michael Scott, Andrew Dobson, and others - brought together by The Wildlands Project to examine the science underlying the design and management of regional-scale reserve networks.`Continental Conservation'provides conservationists and biologists with the latest scientific principles for protecting living nature at spatial scales that encompass entire regions and continents.