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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... Large. Carnivores. in. Conserving. Biodiversity. Robert S. Steneck How important are large carnivorous animals for conserving biodiversity? Today they ... predators. Under what conditions should we expect predators to be important regulators ...
... predators could be “drivers” of the system by limiting the abundance of ... large mussel, Mytilus californianus in the Pacific Northwest (Paine 1966) ... large herbivorous zooplanktons, thereby allowing small, nonpreferred, competitively ...
... 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 ...
... larger consumers eat smaller species. Because apex predators are often the largest consumers in the community preying on smaller carnivores, omnivores, and herbivores, the cascading effects resulting from them will vary primarily as a ...
... large predators have been extirpated, but it will take centuries to observe it? Several studies suggested historical declines in wolf populations in the Rocky Mountains of North America resulted in increased moose (Alces alces) and elk ...
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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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