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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... interactions between humans and large carnivores. But despite this ambiguity, we have worked throughout this book to bring to the surface the management implications of and actions connected with conserving both large carnivorous ...
... interactions among trophic levels as well as to the fact that different processes may act at different trophic levels. They also pointed out that predators at upper trophic levels might control the distribution and abundance of ...
... a serious shortcoming. They were particularly frustrated that interspecific interactions were not part of the species diversity indices (Hurlbert 1971). The term “biodiversity” is a contraction of the phrase “biological.
... interactions among the species (Huston 1994). Thus, “Biodiversity refers to the natural variety and variability among living organisms, the ecological complexes in which they naturally occur, and the ways in which they interact with ...
... interactions resulted from lower tropic levels fueling those at the top. Today, this is called bottom-up control of community structure (sensu Power 1992). What Hairston et al. (1960) proposed to the world was decidedly different ...
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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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