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Conservation of insular herpetofaunas in the West Indies

Conservation of insular herpetofaunas in the West Indies Editorial Conservation of insular herpetofaunas in the West Indies Byron S. Wilson 1 , Julia A. Horrocks 2 , Adrian Hailey 3 1 Department of Life Sciences, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica. Corresponding author; e-mail: byron.wilson@uwimona.edu.jm 2 Department of Biological and Chemical Sciences, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados 3 Department of Life Sciences, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago Key words : Amphibian; biodiversity; Caribbean; conservation; habitat loss; Haiti; invasive species; reptile; sea turtles; West Indies. Introduction This special issue series of Applied Herpetology assesses the status of amphibian and reptile conservation efforts in the insular West Indies. Most of the invited contributions will cover single islands or island groups, but some papers will have a thematic focus on a taxon (e.g. snakes, amphibians, sea turtles) or conservation issue (e.g., invasive species, recent extinctions). Our area of geographic coverage is the insular western Atlantic tropical coral province, a region containing all islands within the Caribbean Sea, plus the Bahamas, the Turks and Caicos islands, and Bermuda, with the aim of discussing the herpetological conservation problems of small island developing states (Griffith and Ashe, 1993; Oldfield and Sheppard, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Applied Herpetology Brill

Conservation of insular herpetofaunas in the West Indies

Hailey, Adrian; Horrocks, Julia; Wilson, Byron
Applied Herpetology , Volume 3 (3): 181 – Jan 1, 2006
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Editorial Conservation of insular herpetofaunas in the West Indies Byron S. Wilson 1 , Julia A. Horrocks 2 , Adrian Hailey 3 1 Department of Life Sciences, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica. Corresponding author; e-mail: byron.wilson@uwimona.edu.jm 2 Department of Biological and Chemical Sciences, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados 3 Department of Life Sciences, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago Key words : Amphibian; biodiversity; Caribbean; conservation; habitat loss; Haiti; invasive species; reptile; sea turtles; West Indies. Introduction This special issue series of Applied Herpetology assesses the status of amphibian and reptile conservation efforts in the insular West Indies. Most of the invited contributions will cover single islands or island groups, but some papers will have a thematic focus on a taxon (e.g. snakes, amphibians, sea turtles) or conservation issue (e.g., invasive species, recent extinctions). Our area of geographic coverage is the insular western Atlantic tropical coral province, a region containing all islands within the Caribbean Sea, plus the Bahamas, the Turks and Caicos islands, and Bermuda, with the aim of discussing the herpetological conservation problems of small island developing states (Griffith and Ashe, 1993; Oldfield and Sheppard,

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Applied Herpetology – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 2006

Keywords: REPTILE; BIODIVERSITY; SEA TURTLES; INVASIVE SPECIES; CONSERVATION; AMPHIBIAN; HABITAT LOSS; WEST INDIES; HAITI; CARIBBEAN

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