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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... Kelp Forests 61 James A. Estes The Sea Otter–Kelp Forest Ecosystem 63 Implications for Other Species and Ecosystems 74 Implications for Conservation and Management 78 Summary 80 CHAPTER 5 The Green World Hypothesis Revisited 82 John ...
... kelp systems, Lago Guri, Venezuela, and wolves (Canis lupus) of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. The remaining ... forests of the northeastern United States where large carnivores are gone and ungulates “rule the world,” and what is ...
... kelp forest development (Estes and Palmisano 1974; reviewed in Estes, this volume). In all of these examples, a single predator affected the entire community by removing either a dominant spatial competitor or a dominant herbivore. Thus ...
... kelp forests over vast areas (Estes et al. 1998). This also illustrates the context-dependent nature of top-down controls (Pace et. Number of trophic levels and effects. Large arrows indicate large effect from strong Do Marine Systems ...
... kelp forests of Maine and Alaska; Stenecket al. 2002) or more diverse systems that have lost functional diversity (e.g., Caribbean coral reefs due to overfishing and disease; Hughes 1994). Nevertheless, even some highly diverse ...
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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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