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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... Predation Derived from Long-Term Studies 177 CHAPTER 10 Tigers and Wolves in the Russian Far East: Competitive ... Predator–Prey Relationships in Various Systems 212 Intraguild Relationships 223 Biodiversity Implications of Large ...
... Predator–Prey Dynamics 344 Failure to Consider Effects of K 346 Prey to Predator Ratios 349 Kill Rates 351 A Prey-Based Approach for Understanding Top-Down and Bottom-Up Processes 354 Future Directions for Predator–Prey Modeling 358 Linking ...
... predators are from either marine or freshwater aquatic ecosystems. It could be that terrestrial predator–prey interactions are more difficult to observe because they play out over much larger areas and over a much longer period of time ...
... predator–prey assemblages (Olson and Dinerstein 2002). In one WWF planning exercise conducted in the Indo-Pacific ... predator communities (Wikramanayake et al. 2002). These ranged from “relatively intact” regions where top predators ...
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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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