To see accurate pricing, please choose your delivery country.
 
 
United States
£ GBP
All Shops

British Wildlife

8 issues per year 84 pages per issue Subscription only

British Wildlife is the leading natural history magazine in the UK, providing essential reading for both enthusiast and professional naturalists and wildlife conservationists. Published eight times a year, British Wildlife bridges the gap between popular writing and scientific literature through a combination of long-form articles, regular columns and reports, book reviews and letters.

Subscriptions from £33 per year

Conservation Land Management

4 issues per year 44 pages per issue Subscription only

Conservation Land Management (CLM) is a quarterly magazine that is widely regarded as essential reading for all who are involved in land management for nature conservation, across the British Isles. CLM includes long-form articles, events listings, publication reviews, new product information and updates, reports of conferences and letters.

Subscriptions from £26 per year
Academic & Professional Books  Reptiles & Amphibians  Reptiles

Galapagos Giant Tortoises

By: James Gibbs(Editor), Linda Cayot(Editor), Washington Tapia Aguilera(Editor)
518 pages, colour photos, b/w illustrations
Publisher: Academic Press
NHBS
Aimed at biologists and conservationists, this book gives an overview of the biology of Galápagos giant tortoises, with a particular focus on conservation.
Galapagos Giant Tortoises
Click to have a closer look
  • Galapagos Giant Tortoises ISBN: 9780128175545 Hardback Nov 2020 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 1-2 weeks
    £93.99
    #250563
Price: £93.99
About this book Contents Customer reviews Biography Related titles

About this book

Galapagos Giant Tortoises brings together researchers and conservationists to share the most current knowledge of the Galapagos giant tortoise species. The book begins with an overview of the history of the relationship between humans and Galapagos giant tortoises, beginning with their exploitation by pirates and whalers. It then shifts to detail their evolution, taxonomy and distribution, describing movement ecology, reproduction, behaviour and conservation efforts, including issues of invasive species and introduced diseases. The final portion of the book looks ahead to the future, addressing the implications of climate change and case studies of tortoise restoration.

As a release in the Biodiversity of the World: Conservation from Genes to Landscape series, Galapagos Giant Tortoises provides a valuable resource for researchers and conservationists, as well as students of biology, wildlife conservation and herpetology.

Contents

Section I: Overview
1. The Galapagos Archipelago, island home of giant tortoises
2. Galapagos tortoises: Protagonists in the spectacle of life on Earth

Section II: History of Human - Tortoise Interactions
3. Human perceptions of Galapagos tortoises through history
4. The era of exploitation: 1700-1959
5. Darwin and Galapagos tortoises
6. The Collectors: Beginnings of scientific inquiry

Section III: The Natural History of Galapagos Giant Tortoises
7. Evolution and phylogenetics
8. Morphology and taxonomy
9. Reproduction
10. Thermoregulation
11. Behavior and Diet
12. Population biology
13. Movements
14. Habitats
15. Role in Ecosystems
16. Climate change

Section IV: Conservation: Slow Rescue from Near Destruction
17. History of Galapagos tortoise conservation
18. Monitoring and research
19. Health
20. Eradication and control of invasive species in support of tortoise conservation
21. Populations after 50 years of conservation

Section V: Restoration Case Studies
22. Española Island: From the brink of extinction to recovery
23. Pinzón Island: From a century of zero tortoise hatchlings to a growing population
24. Floreana and Pinta Islands: Repopulating islands through lost lineage recovery
25. Santa Fe Island: Return of tortoises via a replacement species

Section VI: Into the Future
26. Beyond rescue to full recovery

Customer Reviews

Biography

Dr James Gibbs is an Associate Chair and Distinguished Professor of Vertebrate Conservation Biology in the Department of Environmental and Forest Biology at SUNY-ESF in Syracuse, New York, US. Since 2014, he has also served as Director of the Roosevelt Wildlife Station at SUNY-ESF and Adjunct Scientist for the Galapagos Conservancy. He received his PhD in forestry and environmental studies from Yale University, Connecticut, US. He has co-authored five books and numerous journal publications on wildlife and conservation biology. Dr Gibbs is also a member of the Society for Conservation Biology, The Wildlife Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Dr Linda Cayot has worked for the Galapagos Conservation for more than 30 years. She first went to the Galapagos in 1981 to study giant tortoises for her PhD from Syracuse University, New York, US and has stayed involved with the Islands ever since. Dr Cayot served as herpetologist of the Charles Darwin Research Station (CDRS) from 1988 to 1998, during which time she supervised both the giant tortoise and land iguana breeding and rearing programs, worked extensively with Lonesome George, the last remaining member of the tortoise subspecies Chelonoidis abingdoni from Pinta Island, and supervised Ecuadorian students studying the endemic reptiles of the Galapagos, among many other things. In her final year with the CDRS, Linda coordinated the start of the successful Project Isabela, aimed at ridding Isabela and other islands of feral goats. She has worked as Galapagos Conservancy’s Science Advisor since 2008. Dr. Cayot continues to collaborate with the Galapagos National Park Service in strategizing and planning future conservation efforts for tortoises throughout the islands.

Dr Washington Tapia Aguilera is the director of the Giant Tortoise Restoration Initiative under the Galapagos Conservancy. He received his master's degree in Conservation of Tropical Biodiversity from San Pablo University CEU, Madrid, Spain and later his PhD in Biodiversity and Environmental Studies from the University of Málaga, Málaga, Spain. He has led conferences and headed numerous research publications focusing on the conservation and environmental factors on Galapagos animals including giant tortoises and land iguanas.

By: James Gibbs(Editor), Linda Cayot(Editor), Washington Tapia Aguilera(Editor)
518 pages, colour photos, b/w illustrations
Publisher: Academic Press
NHBS
Aimed at biologists and conservationists, this book gives an overview of the biology of Galápagos giant tortoises, with a particular focus on conservation.
Current promotions
New and Forthcoming BooksNHBS Moth TrapBritish Wildlife MagazineBuyers Guides