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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... biodiversity (Box 2.1). It also spawned contemporary concepts such as the intermediate disturbance hypothesis, trophic ... species diversity is directly related to the efficiency with Box 2.1 Defining Biodiversity (a brief history) A ...
... biodiversity” has its roots in the phrase “species diversity.” Beginning in the 1940s, information indices were developed to go beyond simple lists of the number of species (i.e., species richness or species density for a fixed area) to ...
... diversity” (Wilson and Peter 1988). It was intended to encompass all scales of diversity from genomic to species, populations, communities, ecosystems, and landscapes. Significantly, it also includes ecological interactions among the ...
... species diversity falls between the extremes of no predation where one or a few competitively dominant species thrive and high predation pressure where only a few predatorresistant species persist. a primary carnivore and the next a ...
... species diversity of all other species in the system. One classic example came from Robert Paine who had been a student of Frederick Smith (the first “S” of HSS). Paine observed that the intertidal sea star, Pisaster ochraceus ...
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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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