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Tropical Conservation Biology: response to Lugo's tendentious review

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

NAVJOT S. SODHI ,
COREY J. A. BRADSHAW  and
BARRY W. BROOK
NAVJOT S. SODHI*
Affiliation:
Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, 14 Science Drive 4, Singapore 117543, Republic of Singapore Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
COREY J. A. BRADSHAW
Affiliation:
The Environment Institute and School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia South Australian Research and Development Institute, PO Box 120, Henley Beach, South Australia 5022, Australia
BARRY W. BROOK
Affiliation:
The Environment Institute and School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia
*
*Correspondence: Dr Navjot S. Sodhi e-mail: nsodhi@oeb.harvard.edu
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Summary

Scientific textbooks deserve substantial scrutiny because they generally appeal to a wider audience than technical papers; book reviews in journals are one mode of critiquing a book's scientific content. It is contended that the review by Lugo of the book Tropical Conservation Biology was based on a superficial reading, and omitted some basic principles and literature in conservation science.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , March 2009 , pp. 11 - 13
Copyright
Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 2009

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