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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... Mammalian Carnivores 154 Rosie Woodroffe and Joshua R. Ginsberg Large Carnivore Assemblages and the Forces That Structure Them 159 When Guilds Collapse: Rules for the Disassembly of Large Carnivore Assemblages 160 Guild Redundancy and ...
... mammals and birds scale to the mass of their prey in the same manner as small predatory lizards, amphibians, and birds. Large predators also consume the widest range of prey sizes (Peters 1983), which magnifies their per capita impact ...
... mammals (MacFadden 2000). In fact, when mostly herbivorous mammals from North and South America commingled for the first time 2.5 26 Setting the Stage.
... mammals increased (Lessa et al. 1997). In fact, body mass was the only factor strongly associated with the ... mammals of the Middle and Late Miocene (Viranta 2003). Reviewing the 46-million-year evolutionary history of carnivorous ...
... of all terrestrial megafauna (mammals, reptiles, and birds) weighing more than 100 kg and 85% of those 45 to 100 kg around the time of first human contact. This also occurred in Papua New Guinea and Australia between 28 Setting the Stage.
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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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