Deer of the World: Ecology, Conservation and Management

這本書是有史以來第一部全面的參考著作，涵蓋了全球所有鹿類物種的系統學、生態學、保育狀況和管理。

本書涵蓋全球54種鹿類，匯集了130位國際鹿類專家的貢獻，提供了：
- 對鹿類演化、系統發生學和系統學當前知識狀態的全面概述
- 對每個物種的生態學和保育狀況的全面理解，並附有詳細說明
- 一系列有關保育、管理、狩獵、養殖及鹿類對森林生態系統影響的案例研究

這本精美插圖的書籍對於研究人員、野生動物管理者以及保育生物學、生態學和管理的學生，以及對此主題感興趣的普通讀者來說，都是一個寶貴的資源。它揭示了鹿類演化的迷人故事、人類與鹿類之間長期互動的歷史，以及這個迷人物種群面臨的主要威脅。

Mario Melletti is an Italian freelance wildlife biologist and a member of the African Buffalo Initiative Group and the Wild Pig Specialist Group, both part of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Species Survival Commission. During his Ph.D. and M.Sc. studies, he worked at the Department of Animal and Human Biology of the University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy, and at the Department of Conservation Biology of the Estación Biólogica de Doñana (CSIC-EBD) Sevilla, Spain. He has been studying African mammals since 2001. For about 3 years he studied the ecology and behaviour of forest buffalo in Central Africa, and he also worked as a field assistant in the Primate Habituation Program (PHP-WWF) of western lowland gorillas in Dzanga-Ndoki National Park (Central African Republic). Mario has also conducted a study on the ecology and behaviour of giant forest hogs and forest elephants in the rainforests of Kibale National Park, Semliki Wildlife Reserve and Queen Elizabeth National Park (Uganda). He has also participated in several large mammal surveys in other African countries such as Burkina Faso, Zambia and Zimbabwe. He is the editor of seven books on mammalian ecology, conservation and management published by Cambridge University Press and Springer Nature, and has authored about 70 scientific publications.

Stefano Focardi is a senior researcher at the Institute for Complex Systems of the CNR in Florence, Italy, where he leads the large mammal research team. He is also Professor of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of Florence and Invited Professor at the University of Lyon, France. He also leads a collaboration with INRA in Toulouse, France. He is the author of 110 scientific articles and 26 environmental management documents. He is also the scientific coordinator of EUROBOAR, a European organisation for research into the biology of wild boar, and an active member of the EURODEER INITIATIVE. He is a specialist in the biology of roe deer and fallow deer and has organised several international meetings on these two cervid species. His current research interests include ungulate demography, avian and mammalian movement ecology, and population assessment.

馬里奧·梅萊蒂（Mario Melletti）是一位意大利自由職業的野生動物生物學家，並且是非洲水牛倡議小組和野豬專家小組的成員，這兩者均隸屬於國際自然保護聯盟的物種生存委員會。在他的博士和碩士研究期間，他曾在意大利羅馬大學「拉薩比恩扎」的動物與人類生物學系以及西班牙塞維利亞的多納納生物站（CSIC-EBD）的保育生物學系工作。他自2001年以來一直在研究非洲哺乳動物。大約三年內，他研究了中非森林水牛的生態和行為，並且曾在中非共和國的贊加-恩多基國家公園擔任西部低地大猩猩的田野助理，參與了靈長類動物習慣化計畫（PHP-WWF）。馬里奧還在烏干達的基巴萊國家公園、塞姆利基野生動物保護區和伊麗莎白女王國家公園的熱帶雨林中進行了有關巨型森林野豬和森林大象的生態和行為研究。他還參加了在布基納法索、贊比亞和津巴布韋等其他非洲國家的多次大型哺乳動物調查。他是劍橋大學出版社和施普林格自然出版的七本有關哺乳動物生態、保育和管理的書籍的編輯，並且發表了約70篇科學論文。

斯特凡諾·福卡爾迪（Stefano Focardi）是意大利佛羅倫斯CNR複雜系統研究所的高級研究員，負責大型哺乳動物研究團隊。他同時也是佛羅倫斯大學的脊椎動物動物學教授，以及法國里昂大學的受邀教授。他還與法國圖盧茲的INRA進行合作。他是110篇科學文章和26份環境管理文件的作者，也是EUROBOAR的科學協調員，該組織專注於野豬生物學的研究，並且是EURODEER倡議的活躍成員。他專精於狍子和梅花鹿的生物學，並組織了多次有關這兩種鹿類的國際會議。他目前的研究興趣包括有蹄類動物的人口統計學、鳥類和哺乳動物的移動生態學以及種群評估。