Mapping the Diversity of Nature

Ronald I. Miller was Senior Officer in the Species Mapping Section of the World Conservation Monitoring Centre, UK, and is now New England Gap Analysis Research Consultant, Amherst Massachusetts, having also worked for the World Bank and the Nature Conservancy.

• One Introduction.- 1 Setting the scene.- Two A Medley of Contexts for Mapping Species Data.- 2 Mapping for monographs: Baselines for resource development.- 3 Mapping the elements of biodiversity: The rare species of Madagascar.- 4 Modeling vertebrate distributions for Gap Analysis.- Three A Conceptual Context for Biodiversity Mapping.- 5 Hierarchical representations of species distributions using maps, images and sighting data.- Four Mapping Migratory Species Distribution Patterns.- 6 Remote-sensing assessment of tropical habitat availability for a nearctic migrant: The wood thrush.- Five Using Maps for the Conservation of Large Mammals Around the Globe.- 7 Keeping elephants on the map: Case studies of the application of GIS for conservation Frances Michelmore.- 8 Designing protected areas for giant pandas in China.- Six Mapping the Global Distributions of Species.- 9 Mapping the distributions of restricted-range birds to identify global conservation priorities.- 10 Mapping and GIS analysis of the global distribution of coral reef fishes on an equal-area grid.- Seven A Continental Conservation Monitoring Program.- 11 Linking plant species information to continental biodiversity inventory, climate modeling and environmental monitoring.- Eight Possibilities for the Future.- 12 Possibilities for the future.- Appendix A Glossary.- Appendix B List of acronyms.

'This is an important book on the subject [biodiversity] and a starting point to get an overview of the many different mapping techniques which have emerged recently to deal with a variety of mapping problems applied to conservation and biodiversity issues.' IBIS