مؤلف: Dennis D. Murphy

Reed F. Noss is a consultant in conservation biology, past editor of the journal Conservation Biology, and president of the Society for Conservation Biology (1999Ð2001). He is the author of The Redwood Forest (Island Press, 2000), and Saving Nature”s Legacy (Island Press, 1994). His new book, Large Mammal Restoration (Island Press, 2001) is due out in the fall of 2001. He also wrote the foreword for Restoring Diversity (Island Press, 1996).Michael A. O”Connell is director of natural community conservation planning in the California field office of The Nature Conservancy.Dennis D. Murphy is president of the Society for Conservation Biology and faculty member at Stanford University and at the University of Nevada-Reno.