Acknowledgements
First and foremost we wish to thank our students
(especially from the MSc Biodiversity, Conservation
and Management course, University of Oxford) for
discussion in class of many of the topics covered in
this book. As in any such project, many individuals
have contributed to shaping the content of this
book by engaging with members of the author team
in discussion, by supplying artwork and permission
to use it, and by providing feedback on draft
chapters.
We particularly wish to thank in these regards:
Natalie Ban, Peter Baxter, Josie Carwardine, Megan
C. Evans, Mat Gilfedder, Carissa J. Klein, Vincent
Devictor, Lincoln Fishpool, Helen Fox, Richard Grenyer,
Steve Jennings, Liana N. Joseph, Mike Hopkins,
Andrew T. Knight, Mark V. Lomolino, Jeffrey D. Lozier,
Mikko Piirainen, Thomas K. Pool, Timoth Rayden,
Carsten Rahbek, David M. Richardson, Robert J.
Smith, Christopher Stewart, Jens - Christian Svenning,
Sebastian Troeng, and Katherine J. Willis. Carissa J.
Klein and Robert J. Smith kindly contributed to two
boxes within Chapter 6 .
We thank Ailsa Allen for redrafting several of the
fi gures. We thank the commissioning editor Ward
Cooper, copy - editor Brian Asbury, and the production
team at Wiley - Blackwell, in particular Kelvin Matthews
and Camille Poire.
We thank the authors, publishers, and other institutions who have kindly given us their permission to
reproduce or re - draw artwork originally published
elsewhere. We apologize if any permissions requests
have been overlooked in error.
Contributing authors to the book wish to recognize
support received, as follows:
Miguel Ara ú jo thanks Delta Caf é s for supporting the
Rui Nabeiro Biodiversity Chair at the University of
É vora. His research is also funded through the EC FP6
ECOCHANGE project (Challenges in Assessing and
Forecasting Biodiversity and Ecosystem Changes in
Europe, contract no. 036866 - GOCE).
James Watson, Richard Fuller and Hedley Grantham
are supported by the Applied Environmental Decision
Analysis research hub, funded through the
Commonwealth Environment Research Facilities programme, Australia.
Lindsey Gillson is funded by the National Research
Foundation (South Africa) and the African Climate
and Development Initiative (UCT).
Catherine Parr is supported by the Trapnell Fund
and the Higgins - Trapnell Family Foundation.
Hugh Possingham is an ARC Federation Fellow and
his work is supported by The Australian Research
Council and an Australian Commonwealth Environmental Research Facility grant.
Kostas Triantis is supported by a FCT Fellowship
(SFRH/BPD/44306/2008).
Kerrie Wilson is an ARC Research Fellow and her
work is supported by The Australian Research Council.
First and foremost we wish to thank our students
(especially from the MSc Biodiversity, Conservation
and Management course, University of Oxford) for
discussion in class of many of the topics covered in
this book. As in any such project, many individuals
have contributed to shaping the content of this
book by engaging with members of the author team
in discussion, by supplying artwork and permission
to use it, and by providing feedback on draft
chapters.
We particularly wish to thank in these regards:
Natalie Ban, Peter Baxter, Josie Carwardine, Megan
C. Evans, Mat Gilfedder, Carissa J. Klein, Vincent
Devictor, Lincoln Fishpool, Helen Fox, Richard Grenyer,
Steve Jennings, Liana N. Joseph, Mike Hopkins,
Andrew T. Knight, Mark V. Lomolino, Jeffrey D. Lozier,
Mikko Piirainen, Thomas K. Pool, Timoth Rayden,
Carsten Rahbek, David M. Richardson, Robert J.
Smith, Christopher Stewart, Jens - Christian Svenning,
Sebastian Troeng, and Katherine J. Willis. Carissa J.
Klein and Robert J. Smith kindly contributed to two
boxes within Chapter 6 .
We thank Ailsa Allen for redrafting several of the
fi gures. We thank the commissioning editor Ward
Cooper, copy - editor Brian Asbury, and the production
team at Wiley - Blackwell, in particular Kelvin Matthews
and Camille Poire.
We thank the authors, publishers, and other institutions who have kindly given us their permission to
reproduce or re - draw artwork originally published
elsewhere. We apologize if any permissions requests
have been overlooked in error.
Contributing authors to the book wish to recognize
support received, as follows:
Miguel Ara ú jo thanks Delta Caf é s for supporting the
Rui Nabeiro Biodiversity Chair at the University of
É vora. His research is also funded through the EC FP6
ECOCHANGE project (Challenges in Assessing and
Forecasting Biodiversity and Ecosystem Changes in
Europe, contract no. 036866 - GOCE).
James Watson, Richard Fuller and Hedley Grantham
are supported by the Applied Environmental Decision
Analysis research hub, funded through the
Commonwealth Environment Research Facilities programme, Australia.
Lindsey Gillson is funded by the National Research
Foundation (South Africa) and the African Climate
and Development Initiative (UCT).
Catherine Parr is supported by the Trapnell Fund
and the Higgins - Trapnell Family Foundation.
Hugh Possingham is an ARC Federation Fellow and
his work is supported by The Australian Research
Council and an Australian Commonwealth Environmental Research Facility grant.
Kostas Triantis is supported by a FCT Fellowship
(SFRH/BPD/44306/2008).
Kerrie Wilson is an ARC Research Fellow and her
work is supported by The Australian Research Council.