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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... Berger et al. 2001a; Berger and Smith, this volume) or islands. For example, fluctuating population densities of wolves (Canis lupus) on an island in Lake Superior control the abundance of moose that in turn control the abundance of the ...
... (Berger et al. 2001a; Ripple et al. 2001). On an island in Lake Superior, cyclic population flushes of wolves limit herbivory by moose and thus allow balsam fir trees on the island to prosper in concordant cycles (McLaren and Peterson ...
Justina Ray, Kent H. Redford, Robert Steneck, Joel Berger. North and South America commingled for the first time 2.5 million years ago, following the formation of the Isthmus of Panama, extinction rates of primarily large mammals ...
... Berger for helping me develop this chapter, and Jim Estes, Justina Ray, and Kent Redford for their thoughtful reviews. Other helpful discussions came from Paul Dayton, Jim Estes, Jeremy Jackson, Bob Paine, and Blair Van Valkenburgh ...
Justina Ray, Kent H. Redford, Robert Steneck, Joel Berger. Category 1: Ecosystem Conservation The first example of the use of large carnivorous animals as conservation tools spotlights these species, but has a larger goal of preventing ...
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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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