Large Carnivores and the Conservation of BiodiversityJustina Ray, Kent H. Redford, Robert Steneck, Joel Berger Island Press, 09/04/2013 - 526 páginas Large Carnivores and the Conservation of Biodiversity brings together more than thirty leading scientists and conservation practitioners to consider a key question in environmental conservation: Is the conservation of large carnivores in ecosystems that evolved with their presence equivalent to the conservation of biological diversity within those systems? Building their discussions from empirical, long-term data sets, contributors including James A. Estes, David S. Maehr, Tim McClanahan, Andrès J. Novaro, John Terborgh, and Rosie Woodroffe explore a variety of issues surrounding the link between predation and biodiversity: What is the evidence for or against the link? Is it stronger in marine systems? What are the implications for conservation strategies? Large Carnivores and the Conservation of Biodiversity is the first detailed, broad-scale examination of the empirical evidence regarding the role of large carnivores in biodiversity conservation in both marine and terrestrial ecosystems. It contributes to a much more precise and global understanding of when, where, and whether protecting and restoring top predators will directly contribute to the conservation of biodiversity. Everyone concerned with ecology, biodiversity, or large carnivores will find this volume a unique and thought-provoking analysis and synthesis. |
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... Sinclair et al. 2003). Yet little of this work has provided tools that would help conservation practitioners in their efforts to conserve biodiversity. To us, the question, Is the conservation of large carnivorous animals equivalent to ...
... (Sinclair and NortonGriffths 1979) or sea urchins in numerous shallow marine habitats (Steneck et al. 2002) control the structure of lower trophic levels (i.e., plant communities), they do so by the brute force of numbers and as such ...
... Sinclair et al. 2003). Herbivory can weed out the most edible and palatable plants from a community, leaving plants that are avoided or impossible to eat. Thus the world can be green and herbivores could be trophically limited (reviewed ...
... (Sinclair et al. 2003). Body size scaling dictates both predatory and competitive dominance (e.g., Connell 1983). Larger predators can eat larger prey. For example, there is a strong linear relationship between terrestrial predators ...
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From Largely Intact to HumanDominated Systems Insight on the Role of Predation Derived from LongTerm Studies | 177 |
Achieving Conservation and Management Goals through Focus on Large Carnivorous Animals | 289 |
References | 429 |
List of Contributors | 509 |
Index | 512 |
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