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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... limited version of conservation success might be easier to achieve in their absence. Difficult though this question is, it exists as a reality in the world of the “Designer Ark” (Weber in press). A different, though perhaps ...
... limited in scope to provide answers to such broad questions. One way around this lack of data that would allow a more holistic perspective is to apply ecological theory to help sort out which concepts are most appropriate, most ...
... limited, they are most likely to be predator-limited. Thus they concluded that density-dependent processes regulate carnivores at the top of food webs and producers at the base, but density-independent processes (i.e., carnivory) ...
... limited according to HSS). Thus all keystone predators are apex predators, but the reverse is not true. There are relatively few keystone predators in the world. They are rare or absent from most highly diverse ecosystems. Arguably, it ...
... limited only by resources available to them. This was a food web of three trophic levels (i.e., an odd number). Figure 2.3 interactors. Small arrows indicate small effect. Relative abundance. An Ecological Context for the Role of Large ...
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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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