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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... result in changes in herbivore abundance are given in the x-axis. Changes in plant abundance that result from subsequent changes in herbivore abundance are given in the y-axis. If predators have relatively little impact in the system ...
... results in months or years and thus find their way into Ph.D. dissertations and to the published literature. However ... result of Eltonian pyramids. After all, food webs can support only so many apex predators due to inefficiencies of ...
... results when an entire trophic level has so few consumers that their impact to other organisms or lower trophic levels is ... result in alternate community states (Knowlton 1992) An Ecological Context for the Role of Large Carnivores in ...
... result in alternate community states (Knowlton 1992) or “catastrophic shifts in ecosystems” (sensu Scheffer et al ... resulting from predator impacts have been reported only for shallow coastal marine ecosystems in several of the world's ...
... result in limited, if any, conservation gains (Simberloff 1998). However, a shift to the ecosystem scale may result in lack of sufficient protection for some biodiversity elements. Furthermore, knowledge of the biology of individual ...
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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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