The importance of species : perspectives on expendability and triage /

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A great many species are threatened by the expanding human population. Though the public generally favors environmental protection, conservation does not come without sacrifice and cost. Many decision makers wonder if every species is worth the trouble. Of what consequence would the extinction of, s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kareiva, Peter M., 1951-, Levin, Simon A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2003]
Temas:
Conservation biology > Congresses.
Species diversity > Congresses.
Endangered species > Congresses.
Biodiversity conservation > Congresses.
Biologie de la conservation > Congrès.
Diversité des espèces > Congrès.
Espèces en danger > Congrès.
Biodiversité > Conservation > Congrès.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Real Estate > General.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Biology.
Biodiversity conservation
Conservation biology
Endangered species
Species diversity
Artenreichtum
Biodiversität
Conference papers and proceedings
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Native thistles: expendable or integral to ecosystem resistance to invasion? / S.M. Louda and T.A. Rand
  • The overriding importance of environmental context in determining the outcome of species-deletion experiments / B.A. Menge
  • Species importance and context: spatial and temporal variation in species interactions / C.D.G. Harley
  • Effects on removing a vertebrate versus an invertebrate predator on a food web, and what is their relative importance / T.W. Schoener and D.A. Spiller
  • Understanding the effects of reduced biodiversity: a comparison of two approaches / J.T. Wootton and A.L. Downing
  • Models of ecosystem reliability and their implications for the question of expendability / S. Naeem
  • Predicting the effects of species loss on community stability / D. Doak and M. Marvier
  • One fish, two fish, old fish, new fish: which invasions matter? / J.L. Ruesink
  • Ecological gambling: expendable extinctions versus acceptable invasions / M.J. Wonham
  • Rarity and functional importance in a phytoplankton community / D.E. Schindler [and others]
  • Community and ecosystem impacts of single-species extinctions / D. Simberloff
  • Social conflict, biological ignorance, and trying to agree which species are expendable / E.G. Leigh Jr.
  • Which mutualists are most essential? Buffering of plant reproduction against the extinction of pollinators / W.F. Morris
  • The expendability of species: a test case based on the caterpillars on goldenrods / R.B. Root
  • An evolutionary perspective on the importance of species: why ecologists care about evolution / S.R. Palumbi
  • Recovering species of conservation concern-are populations expendable? / M. Ruckelshaus, P. McElhany, and M.J. Ford
  • Virus specificity in disease systems: are species redundant? / A.G. Power and A.S. Flecker.

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