Grans Mamífers de Catalunya i Andorra: Distribució, Biologia, Ecologia i Conservació [Large Mammals of Catalonia and Andorra: Distribution, Biology, Ecology and Conservation]

About this book

Language: Catalan

This new book describes in detail the species of large mammals in Catalonia and Andorra and their current and past situations. It includes Lagomorphs, Carnivores, Ungulates, Cetaceans and some large Rodents. It is a comprehensive collective work involving more than 80 specialists. It includes extensive information, maps, charts, illustrations and photographs, as well as over 2000 bibliographic references.

It constitutes a solid and fully up-to-date base aimed, in its conception, both at giving satisfaction to the readers who are only looking to enjoy their knowledge or to satisfy their curiosity, and to the specialists who will have an essential manual for conservation, management, study and knowledge of the 49 species it includes.

In addition, readers will be able to find up to 21 thematic articles of great relevance: from the structure of the communities of the large groups or the diseases that affect them to the problems they originate, their tourist use or their life in special situations. In addition, it includes a detailed and updated bibliography, with more than 2000 references. Readers will be able to enjoy learning very wide and well-structured information and, at the same time, learn to love, value and conserve these species for future generations.

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Biography

Jordi Ruiz-Olmo, born in 1961 in Barcelona, is a graduate of Biology from the University of Barcelona (specialising in Zoology, 1984) and also has a PhD in Biology from the same university (1995). He has been living in Granollers for 21 years. He is a great authority in the field included in this work. He has been working at the Generalitat de Catalunya since 1985, where he has had a number of different roles and responsibilities at various levels, related to the management and preservation of nature and biodiversity, damage to the primary sector caused by wildlife, pets and animals rights, environment assessment, delimitation and management of protected natural areas and of the Natura 2000 Network, hunting, continental fishing, invasive species and marine management, among others. He has conducted different EU co-funded programs on invertebrates, fish, birds and mammals. He is also the author or co-author of a dozen books, such as this one, about carnivores, otters, minks, protected species and nature in Catalonia. He also collaborated on the volume including mammals of the Història Natural dels Països Catalans and a volume of Biosfera, both published by Enciclopèdia Catalana. He is also the author or co-author of a large number of papers in scientific or outreach journals, published in more than a dozen countries, in the field of ecology, behaviour, ecotoxicology, study or census methodologies, modelling, management and conservation, reproduction, climatic change, pathology and genetics, carnivores, ungulates, lagomorphs and fish, among others. In the field of divulgation, he is co-author of the mini-guide Grans Mamífers Terrestres de Catalunya i els Seus Rastres. He has also directed over ten PhD theses.

David Camps i Munuera, born in Barcelona in 1971 and the adoptive son of Breda (Girona), has been passionate about animals and nature since he was a child. He graduated in Biological Sciences, specialising in Animal Biology, from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and he started working in this field in the research and management of wildlife. He has been working at the Generalitat de Catalunya since 2002, most of the time in the department responsible for the protection of fauna and flora, and currently in the Information and Knowledge Unit of the Department of Climate Action, Food and Rural Agenda, dedicated to the management and conservation of biodiversity. He is also a specialist in geographic information systems, with which he has developed two projects in South Africa and Botswana, and he is responsible for drafting and coordinating the mapping plan for endangered species of fauna and flora for the Generalitat de Catalunya. At the same time, his task as a researcher has been focused on the study of different mammal species, mainly carnivores and, especially, the genet, an animal that for more than three decades he has been trying to get to know a little better every day. He is the author of the monograph La Gineta (Ediciones Tundra, 2015) and co-author of El libro de los carnívoros (Photodigiscoping, 2016), as well as a number of papers, both scientific and educational, about the management of natural heritage and the biology and ecology of different species of mammals. He is also a member of the Sociedad Española para la Conservación y Estudio de los Mamíferos (SECEM) and of the genet specialist group of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).