Note: Intro -- Farmland Conservation -- Farmland Conservation -- Copyright -- Contents -- Advisory board -- About the authors -- Acknowledgements -- About this book -- 1: All farming systems -- 2: Arable farming -- 3: Perennial (non-timber) crops -- 4: Livestock farming -- 5: Residential and commercial development -- 6: Agri-chemicals -- 7: Transport and service corridors -- 8: Hunting and trapping (for pest control, food or sport) -- 9: Natural system modification -- 10: Invasive and other problematic species -- 11: Education and awareness -- Index.

Note: Intro -- Cover -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue to the Paperback Edition -- PART ONE: Red Sky Warning -- 1: "Our CEO Is Resigning." -- 2: "Who's Andy Fastow?" -- 3: "You Won't Believe What Skilling Just Told Me." -- 4: "I Have Found That Mr. Lay Doesn't Take Kindly to Criticism." -- 5: "It Isn't a Conflict of Interest." -- 6: "You're Just Scratching the Surface." -- 7: "You Are About to Topple a 20B House of Cards." -- 8: "I Want to Be CFO of the Year." -- 9: "It's Okay to Have a Conflict." -- 10: "Make the Journal Go Away." -- 11: "He Would Have Done Nothing to Harm Enron." -- 12: "Amend My Last Statement." -- PART TWO: The 24 Days -- Chapter -- 13: "I'm Not Sure It Had a Name." -- 14: "You Missed Something That Could Be Really Big." -- 15: "Looks Like the SEC Read Your Stories." -- 16: "There Is an Appearance That You Are Hiding Something." -- 17: "I Must Have Heard the Term Death Spiral a Dozen Times Today." -- 18: "Oh, I Expect to Be in the Office All Weekend." -- 19: "Those Liars!" -- PART THREE: The Party's Over -- 20: "Does Ken Lay Know About This Meeting?" -- 21: "Don't Approach Their People Again." -- 22: "At Least We're Going to Be Part of the Biggest Bankruptcy Ever!" -- 23: "Laydoff.com" -- PART FOUR: Aftershocks and Revelations -- 24: "There Will Be Something Else Fun and Exciting on the Other Side." -- 25: "Enron Has a Problem You May Want to Write About." -- 26: "I Really Got Sucked into This One." -- 27: "We Notified Enron's Audit Committee of Possible Illegal Acts Within the Company." -- 28: "Do You Guys Have a Shredder Here?" -- 29: "I Didn't Look Closely. I Didn't Want to Know Too Much." -- 30: "You've Got to Be Kidding Me." -- 31: "I Feel I Just Can't Go On." -- 32: "There Was a Young Turk Arrogance." -- 33: "Next Time Fastow Is Going to Run a Racket, I Want to Be Part of It.". , 34: "Often He Was Just Goofy." -- PART FIVE: The Perp Walk -- 35: "The Arrogance. The Lack of Accountability." -- 36: "Enron's CFO, Kopper, and Others Devised a Scheme to Defraud Enron and Its Shareholders." -- 37: "If It Isn't Criminal, It Ought to Be." -- Searchable Terms -- About the Author -- Credits -- Copyright -- About the Publisher.

Note: Intro -- Amphibian Conservation -- Amphibian Conservation -- Contents -- Advisory board -- About the authors -- Acknowledgements -- About this book -- The purpose of Conservation Evidence synopses -- Who is this synopsis for? -- The Conservation Evidence project -- Scope of the Amphibian Conservation synopsis -- Husbandry vs conservation of species -- How we decided which conservation interventions to include -- How we reviewed the literature -- How the evidence is summarized -- Terminology used to describe evidence -- Taxonomy -- Habitats -- Significant results -- Multiple interventions -- How you can help to change conservation practice. -- Threat: Residential and commercial development -- Key messages -- Protect brownfield or ex-industrial sites -- Restrict herbicide, fungicide and pesticide use on and around ponds on golf courses -- Legal protection of species -- 1.1 Protect brownfield or ex-industrial sites -- 1.2 Restrict herbicide, fungicide and pesticide use on and around ponds on golf courses -- 1.3 Legal protection of species -- Threat: Agriculture -- Key messages - engage farmers and other volunteers -- Pay farmers to cover the costs of conservation measures -- Engage landowners and other volunteers to manage land for amphibians -- Key messages - terrestrial habitat management -- Manage cutting regime -- Manage grazing regime -- Reduced tillage -- Maintain or restore hedges -- Plant new hedges -- Manage silviculture practices in plantations -- Key messages - aquatic habitat management -- Exclude domestic animals or wild hogs by fencing -- Manage ditches -- Engage farmers and other volunteers -- 2.1 Pay farmers to cover the costs of conservation measures -- 2.2 Engage landowners and other volunteers to manage land for amphibians -- Terrestrial habitat management -- 2.3 Manage cutting regime -- 2.4 Manage grazing regime. , 2.5 Reduce tillage -- 2.6 Maintain or restore hedges -- 2.7 Plant new hedges -- 2.8 Manage silviculture practices in plantations -- Aquatic habitat management -- 2.9 Exclude domestic animals or wild hogs by fencing -- 2.10 Manage ditches -- Threat: Energy production and mining -- Key messages -- Artificially mist habitat to keep it damp -- 3.1 Artificially mist habitat to keep it damp -- Threat: Transportation and service corridors -- Key messages -- Install culverts or tunnels as road crossings -- Install barrier fencing along roads -- Modify gully pots and kerbs -- Use signage to warn motorists -- Close roads during seasonal amphibian migration -- Use humans to assist migrating amphibians across roads -- 4.1 Install culverts or tunnels as road crossings -- 4.2 Install barrier fencing along roads -- 4.3 Modify gully pots and kerbs -- 4.4 Use signage to warn motorists -- 4.5 Close roads during seasonal amphibian migration -- 4.6 Use humans to assist migrating amphibians across roads -- Threat: Biological resource use -- Key messages - hunting and collecting terrestrial animals -- Use amphibians sustainably -- Threat: Biological resource use -- Reduce impact of amphibian trade -- Use legislative regulation to protect wild populations -- Commercially breed amphibians for the pet trade -- Key messages - logging and wood harvesting -- Thin trees within forests -- Harvest groups of trees instead of clearcutting -- Use patch retention harvesting instead of clearcutting -- Use leave-tree harvesting instead of clearcutting -- Use shelterwood harvesting instead of clearcutting -- Leave standing deadwood/snags in forests -- Leave coarse woody debris in forests -- Retain riparian buffer strips during timber harvest -- Hunting and collecting terrestrial animals -- 5.1 Use amphibians sustainably -- 5.2 Reduce impact of amphibian trade. , 5.3 Use legislative regulation to protect wild populations -- 5.4 Commercially breed amphibians for the pet trade -- Logging and wood harvesting -- 5.5 Thin trees within forests -- 5.6 Harvest groups of trees instead of clearcutting -- 5.7 Use patch retention harvesting instead of clearcutting -- 5.8 Use leave-tree harvesting instead of clearcutting -- 5.9 Use shelterwood harvesting instead of clearcutting -- 5.10 Leave standing deadwood/snags in forests -- 5.11 Leave coarse woody debris in forests -- 5.12 Retain riparian buffer strips during timber harvest -- Threat: Human intrusions and disturbance -- Key messages -- Use signs and access restrictions to reduce disturbance -- 6.1 Use signs and access restrictions to reduce disturbance -- Threat: Natural system modifications -- Key messages -- Use prescribed fire or modifications to burning regime -- Use herbicides to control mid-storey or ground vegetation -- Mechanically remove mid-storey or ground vegetation -- Regulate water levels -- 7.1 Use prescribed fire or modifications to burning regime -- 7.1.1 Forests -- 7.1.2 Grassland -- 7.2 Use herbicides to control mid-storey or ground vegetation -- 7.3 Mechanically remove mid-storey or ground vegetation -- 7.4 Regulate water levels -- Threat: Invasive alien and other problematic species -- Key messages - reduce predation by other species -- Threat: Invasive alien and other problematic species -- Remove or control mammals -- Remove or control fish population by catching -- Remove or control fish using rotenone -- Remove or control fish by drying out ponds -- Exclude fish with barriers -- Encourage aquatic plant growth as refuge against fish predation -- Remove or control invasive bullfrogs -- Remove or control invasive viperine snake -- Remove or control non-native crayfish -- Key messages - reduce competition with other species. , Reduce competition from native amphibians -- Remove or control invasive cane toads -- Remove or control invasive Cuban tree frogs -- Key messages - reduce adverse habitat alteration by other species -- Prevent heavy usage or exclude wildfowl from aquatic habitat -- Control invasive plants -- Key messages - reduce parasitism and disease - chytridiomycosis -- Sterilize equipment when moving between amphibian sites -- Use gloves to handle amphibians -- Remove the chytrid fungus from ponds -- Use zooplankton to remove zoospores -- Add salt to ponds -- Use antifungal skin bacteria or peptides to reduce infection -- Use antifungal treatment to reduce infection -- Use antibacterial treatment to reduce infection -- Use temperature treatment to reduce infection -- Treating amphibians in the wild or pre-release -- Immunize amphibians against infection -- Key messages - reduce parasitism and disease - ranaviruses -- Sterilize equipment to prevent ranaviruses -- Reduce predation by other species -- 8.1 Remove or control mammals -- 8.2 Remove or control fish population by catching -- 8.3 Remove or control fish using rotenone -- 8.4 Remove or control fish by drying out ponds -- 8.5 Exclude fish with barriers -- 8.6 Encourage aquatic plant growth as refuge against fish predation -- 8.7 Remove or control invasive bullfrogs -- 8.8 Remove or control invasive viperine snake -- 8.9 Remove or control non-native crayfish -- Reduce competition with other species -- 8.10 Reduce competition from native amphibians -- 8.11 Remove or control invasive cane toads -- 8.12 Remove or control invasive Cuban tree frogs -- Reduce adverse habitat alteration by other species -- 8.13 Prevent heavy usage or exclude wildfowl from aquatic habitat -- 8.14 Control invasive plants -- Reduce parasitism and disease - chytridiomycosis -- 8.15 Sterilize equipment when moving between amphibian sites. , 8.16 Use gloves to handle amphibians -- 8.17 Remove the chytrid fungus from ponds -- 8.18 Use zooplankton to remove zoospores -- 8.19 Add salt to ponds -- 8.20 Use antifungal skin bacteria or peptides to reduce infection -- 8.21 Use antifungal treatment to reduce infection -- 8.22 Use antibacterial treatment to reduce infection -- 8.23 Use temperature treatment to reduce infection -- 8.24 Treat amphibians in the wild or pre-release -- 8.25 Immunize amphibians against infection -- Reduce parasitism and disease - ranaviruses -- 8.26 Sterilize equipment to prevent ranavirus -- Threat: Pollution -- Key messages - agricultural pollution -- Plant riparian buffer strips -- Prevent pollution from agricultural lands or sewage treatment facilities entering watercourses -- Create walls or barriers to exclude pollutants -- Reduce pesticide, herbicide or fertilizer use -- Key messages - industrial pollution -- Add limestone to water bodies to reduce acidification -- Augment ponds with ground water to reduce acidification -- Agricultural pollution -- 9.1 Plant riparian buffer strips -- 9.2 Prevent pollution from agricultural lands or sewage treatment facilities entering watercourses -- 9.3 Create walls or barriers to exclude pollutants -- 9.4 Reduce pesticide, herbicide or fertilizer use -- Industrial pollution -- 9.5 Add limestone to water bodies to reduce acidification -- 9.6 Augment ponds with ground water to reduce acidification -- Threat: Climate change and severe weather -- Key messages -- Use irrigation systems for amphibian sites -- Maintain ephemeral ponds -- Deepen ponds to prevent desiccation -- Provide shelter habitat -- Artificially shade ponds to prevent desiccation -- Create microclimate and microhabitat refuges -- Protect habitat along elevational gradients -- 10.1 Use irrigation systems for amphibian sites -- 10.2 Maintain ephemeral ponds. , 10.3 Deepen ponds to prevent desiccation.

Note: Intro -- Advisory board -- About the authors -- Acknowledgements -- About this book -- 1 Threat: Residential and commercial development -- Key messages -- 1.1 Protect brownfield or ex-industrial sites -- 1.2 Restrict herbicide, fungicide and pesticide use on and around ponds on golf courses -- 1.3 Legal protection of species -- 2 Threat: Agriculture -- Key messages - engage farmers and other volunteers -- Key messages - terrestrial habitat management -- Key messages - aquatic habitat management -- Engage farmers and other volunteers -- 2.1 Pay farmers to cover the costs of conservation measures -- 2.2 Engage landowners and other volunteers to manage land for amphibians -- Terrestrial habitat management -- 2.3 Manage cutting regime -- 2.4 Manage grazing regime -- 2.5 Reduce tillage -- 2.6 Maintain or restore hedges -- 2.7 Plant new hedges -- 2.8 Manage silviculture practices in plantations -- Aquatic habitat management -- 2.9 Exclude domestic animals or wild hogs by fencing -- 2.10 Manage ditches -- 3 Threat: Energy production and mining -- 3.1 Artificially mist habitat to keep it damp -- 4 Threat: Transportation and service corridors -- 4.1 Install culverts or tunnels as road crossings -- 4.2 Install barrier fencing along roads -- 4.3 Modify gully pots and kerbs -- 4.4 Use signage to warn motorists -- 4.5 Close roads during seasonal amphibian migration -- 4.6 Use humans to assist migrating amphibians across roads -- 5 Threat: Biological resource use -- Key messages - hunting and collecting terrestrial animals -- Key messages - logging and wood harvesting -- Hunting and collecting terrestrial animals -- 5.1 Use amphibians sustainably -- 5.2 Reduce impact of amphibian trade -- 5.3 Use legislative regulation to protect wild populations -- 5.4 Commercially breed amphibians for the pet trade -- Logging and wood harvesting. , 5.5 Thin trees within forests -- 5.6 Harvest groups of trees instead of clearcutting -- 5.7 Use patch retention harvesting instead of clearcutting -- 5.8 Use leave-tree harvesting instead of clearcutting -- 5.9 Use shelterwood harvesting instead of clearcutting -- 5.10 Leave standing deadwood/snags in forests.

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Note: Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources