The Living Planet The State of the World's Wildlife

About this book

The Living Planet is the decisive and up-to-date overview of the present state of the planet's wildlife. Bringing together an international team of experts, it gives a group-by-group overview of which animal species are in decline. This book highlights the conservation success stories, where management approaches have so far prevented extinction or extirpation (localised extinction). More importantly, however, it outlines what remains to be done to halt and reverse population declines of the world's wildlife populations.

Contents

1. Introduction and the evolution of life on earth / Norman Maclean
2. Flowering plants / Sara Oldfield and Lauren Gardiner
3. Bryophytes and Pteridophytes: Spore-bearing land plants / Mary Gibby
4. Terrestrial mammals / Alexis M. Mychajliw
5. Marine mammals: exploited for millennia, but still holding on / Alexis M. Mychajliw and Thomas A. Jefferson
6. Birds / Tristram Allinson
7. Reptiles / Philip Bowles
8. Amphibians / Phillip J. Bishop † , Sally Wren, Ariadne Angulo and Richard A. Griffiths
9. Freshwater fishes: threatened species and threatened waters on a global scale / Peter B. Moyle and Robert A. Leidy
10. The amazing yet threatened world of marine fishes / Mark A. Hixon and Brian W. Bowen
11. Insects / Manu E. Saunders, Simon Leather †, Jenni Stockan and David Yeates
12. Marine invertebrates / Alex David Rogers, Patricia Miloslavich, David Obura and Octavio Aburto-Oropreza
13. Non-insect terrestrial arthropods / Gonzalo Giribet
14. Terrestrial arthropods other than arthropods and molluscs / Gonzalo Giribet
15. Non-marine Molluscs / Robert H. Cowie, Benoît Fontaine and Philippe Bouchet
16. An account of the diversity and conservation of fungi and their close relatives / Gregory Mueller and Jessica L. Allen
17. Simple life forms / Norman Maclean
18. Assessing species conservation status: the IUCN red list and green status / Molly Grace
19. Problems with the world`s ecosystems / Matt W. Hayward
20. Conservation methods and successes / Norman Maclean
21. What does the future hold for our planet and its wildlife? / Norman Maclean
Index

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Biography

Norman Maclean is an Emeritus Professor of Biology at the University of Southampton and a lifelong wildlife enthusiast. He has visited and studied wildlife in more than fifty countries around the world and has given numerous radio and TV interviews on the subject. He is the editor of Silent Summer (2010); co-editor of Austral Ark (with Adam Stowe and Greg Holwell, 2015); and author of A Less Green and Pleasant Land (2015).


Contributors:
- Norman Maclean
- Sara Oldfield
- Lauren Gardiner
- Mary Gibby
- Alexis M. Mychajliw
- Thomas A. Jefferson
- Tristram Allinson
- Philip Bowles
- Phillip J. Bishop
- Sally Wren
- Ariadne Angulo
- Richard A. Griffiths
- Peter B. Moyle
- Robert A. Leidy
- Mark A. Hixon
- Brian W. Bowen
- Manu E. Saunders
- Simon Leather
- Jenni Stockan
- David Yeates
- Alex David Rogers
- Patricia Miloslavich
- David Obura
- Octavio Aburto-Oropreza
- Gonzalo Giribet
- Robert H. Cowie
- Benoît Fontaine
- Philippe Bouchet
- Gregory Mueller
- Jessica L. Allen
- Molly Grace
- Matt W. Hayward