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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... saw this as a serious shortcoming. They were particularly frustrated that interspecific interactions were not part of the species diversity indices (Hurlbert 1971). The term “biodiversity” is a contraction of the phrase “biological.
... biological 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 ...
... biology and landscape ecology has been made possible through advances in species inventories, new approaches to data ... biological diversity. As science continues to establish a strong role in conservation, such tools are being applied ...
... Biological Corridor (Illueca 2001). A further example is provided by license plate programs such as in Florida, where the public can pay more for a panther-bearing license plate to support statewide biodiversity conservation efforts ...
... biological productivity has driven identification of marine protected areas (Hyrenbach et al. 2000; Price 2002; Hooker and Gerber 2004). For example, a recently conducted priority-setting exercise for the BismarckSolomon Sea included a ...
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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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