Ian Swingland
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ian Richard Swingland is a British conservationist, convicted in 2017 of conspiring to commit fraud by false representation. He founded DICE at the University of Kent in 1989, recognised as one of the first interdisciplinary research and postgraduate training institutes in the world concentrating on biodiversity, communities and sustainable development. While at DICE he served as director and was elected to the first chair in Conservation Biology in the United Kingdom.
Ian Swingland's Published Works
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Published Works
- The Ecology of Animal Movement (1985) (309)
- Genetic divergence and units for conservation in the Komodo dragon Varanus komodoensis (1999) (203)
- Living in a patchy environment. (1991) (165)
- The faint promise of a distant market: a survey of Belém's trade in non-timber forest products (2002) (109)
- The Natural Regulation of Giant Tortoise Populations on Aldabra Atoll: Recruitment (1979) (101)
- Sex ratio under conditional sex expression. (1988) (78)
- The ecology of the mediterranean tortoise Testudo hermanni in northern Greece (the effects of a catastrophe on population structure and density) (1985) (75)
- THE NATURAL REGULATION OF GIANT TORTOISE POPULATIONS ON ALDABRA ATOLL. MOVEMENT POLYMORPHISM, REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS AND MORTALITY (1979) (71)
- Biodiversity, Definition of (2013) (70)
- The ecology of a Mediterranean tortoise (Testudo hermanni): a declining population (1985) (68)
- Changes in the use and management of forests for abating carbon emissions: issues and challenges under the Kyoto Protocol (2002) (64)
- The Conservation biology of tortoises. (1989) (63)
- An overview of a free–market approach to climate change and conservation (2002) (59)
- The biomass, production and carrying capacity of giant tortoises on Aldabra (1979) (53)
- Social capital from carbon property: creating equity for indigenous people (2002) (47)
- The Behavioural Ecology of the Komodo Monitor (1982) (46)
- The ecology of a Mediterranean tortoise (Testudo hermanni): Reproduction (2009) (43)
- Reproductive effort and life history strategy of the Aldabran giant tortoise (1977) (40)
- Dung and carrion insects. (1990) (40)
- Environmental sex determination in reptiles (1997) (37)
- The influence of light intensity on the roosting times of the rook (Corvus frugilegus) (1976) (35)
- Capturing Carbon and Conserving Biodiversity: The Market Approach (2013) (33)
- The Conflict between Feeding and Overheating in the Aldabran Giant Tortoise (1980) (31)
- Collateral biodiversity benefits associated with ‘free–market’ approaches to sustainable land use and forestry activities (2002) (30)
- Patchiness and community structure. (1990) (28)
- Manipulation of vegetation communities on the Abu Dhabi rangelands. I. The effects of irrigation and release from longterm grazing (1995) (22)
- The social and spatial organization of winter communal roosting in Rooks (Corvus fmgilegus) (2009) (22)
- The response of plants to patchy environments. (1990) (21)
- The natural regulation of Giant tortoise populations on Aldabra Atoll. Reproduction (2009) (21)
- Movement patterns and morphometrics in giant tortoises (1989) (20)
- Tortoises and Freshwater Turtles: An Action Plan for Their Conservation@@@The Conservation Biology of Tortoises (1990) (14)
- Integrated protected area management (1999) (12)
- Population genetic structure of Aldabra giant tortoises. (2011) (12)
- The tortoise and the goat: Interactions on Aldabra island (1980) (12)
- Ecotourism, biodiversity and local development (2004) (9)
- Migration: Paths through Time and Space, R. Robin Baker. Hodder & Stoughton, London (1982), vii, +248. Price £5.45 (paperback) (1984) (7)
- Tropical forests and biodiversity conservation: a new ecological imperative (1993) (5)
- The Influence of Weather and Individual Interactions on the Food Intake of Captive Rooks (Corvus frugilegus) (1975) (5)
- Manipulation of vegetation communities on the Abu Dhabi rangelands. II. The effects of topsoiling and drip irrigation (1995) (5)
- The Ecology of Stability in Southeast Asia's Forests: Biodiversity and Common Resource Property (1993) (3)
- Social organisation of roosting in rooks and jackdaws (1973) (3)
- Commercialization, structure and sustainability of biodiversity conservation (1999) (3)
- The Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) (1995) (2)
- Biodiversity and Conservation (1992) (1)
- Extinction Risk: Predicting and Redressing the Threat (2006) (1)
- The 2nd-year (1993) (1)
- Conservation and Evolution, by O. H. Frankel and M. E. Soulé. Cambridge University Press, 1981. Hardback £25. Paperback £7.95. (1982) (1)
- Food Quality and Marsupial Behaviour@@@Evolutionary Ecology of Marsupials. (1985) (0)
- R. Robin Baker Migration: Paths through Time and Space (1984) (0)
- IUCN Tortoise Group Newsletter (1985) (0)
- The ecology and conservation of Aldabran giant tortoises (1988) (0)
- Comments on the proposed conservation of usage of Testudo gigantea Schweigger, 1812 (currently Geochelone (Aldabrachelys) gigantea; Reptilia, Testudines) 11 (2009) (0)
- Sensitive Subject, Sensitive Authors (1996) (0)
- The conservation biology of tortoises : the results of Operation Tortoise, a worldwide project (1989) (0)
- Evaluation of Swedish biodiversity research: funded by the Swedish Research Council and the Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning 2002–2009 (2010) (0)
- Conclusions and prognosis (1999) (0)
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences: 360 (1797) (2002) (0)
- Classics in physical geography revisited (2001) (0)
- Book review (2004) (0)
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