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Ecological challenges and conservation conundrums : essays and reflections for a changing world /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Hoboken, NJ :
John Wiley & Sons,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Essay 1 How did I get here?
- Essay 2 Found! The survivor in the swamps (2005)
- Essay 3 In defense of footnotes (2014)
- pt. 1. Change, the challenge
- ch. 1 Conservation and change
- ch. 2 A digression on paradigms
- Essay 4 The power of paradigms (2014)
- Essay 5 Patterns, paradigms, and preconceptions (2013)
- Essay 6 Fat times, lean times, and competition among predators (1993)
- ch. 3 Equilibrium, stability, and change
- Essay 7 From our southern correspondent(s) (2011)
- Essay 8 Boom and bust: lessons from the outback (2014)
- ch. 4 A digression on disturbance
- Essay 9 Oil, oil, everywhere ... (2010)
- pt. 2. The forces of change
- ch. 5 Climate change and sea-level rise
- Essay 10 Polar bears, golden toads, and conservation futures (2008)
- ch. 6 Land-use change
- Essay 11 Will land-use change erode our conservation gains? (2007)
- Essay 12 Landscape ecology: the science and the action (1999)
- ch. 7 Distributional changes: invasive species
- ch. 8 Societal, cultural, and political change
- Essay 13 Wildlife, people, and water: who wins? (2012)
- ch. 9 Population growth
- ch. 10 Linkages among changes
- pt. 3. Conservation conundrums
- ch. 11 Variation and history
- Essay 14 The eclipse of history? (2008)
- Essay 15 From our southern correspondent(s): which history? (2013)
- ch. 12 A digression on baselines and targets
- Essay 16 Shooting at a moving target (2011)
- ch. 13 Ecological thresholds
- Essay 17 Tipping points in the balance of nature (2010)
- ch. 14 Ecological resilience
- ch. 15 Dealing with novelty
- Essay 18 Black swans and outliers (2012)
- Essay 19 Moving outside the box (2009)
- ch. 16 Uncertainty: a boon or a bane?
- Essay 20 Taking risks with the environment (2012)
- Essay 21 Uncertainty and the relevance of ecology (2008)
- ch. 17 Prioritization and triage
- Essay 22 Talking about triage in conservation (2015)
- ch. 18 Protected areas: where the wild things are
- Essay 23 Build it and they will come (2013)
- Essay 24 The dangers of black-and-white conservation (2007)
- ch. 19 Ecosystem services and the value of nature
- Essay 25 What's so new about ecosystem services? (2007)
- pt. 4. Doing conservation
- ch. 20 What is it we are trying to conserve?
- Essay 26 Be careful what you wish for (2014)
- Essay 27 Concluding comments: Are bird communities real? (1980)
- Essay 28 A metaphor meets an abstraction: the issue of "Healthy Ecosystems" (2015)
- ch. 21 Numbers, numbers, numbers
- Essay 29 Is "monitoring" a dirty word? (2009)
- Essay 30 The place of long-term studies in ornithology (1984)
- Essay 31 What use is small data in a big data world? (2013)
- ch. 22 A digression on words
- Essay 32 Word processing versus writing (1983, 2011)
- ch. 23 Debates in ecology and conservation
- Essay 33 On skepticism and criticism in ornithology (1981)
- Essay 34 The demise of wildness? (2007)
- ch. 24 What lies behind the debates? Philosophy, values, and ethics
- ch. 25 A digression on advocacy in conservation
- Essay 35 Scientific responsibility and responsible ecology (1997)
- pt. 5. Concluding comments
- ch. 26 Whither ecology and conservation in a changing world?
- Essay 36 "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ..." (2009)
- Essay 37 Being green isn't easy (2010)
- Essay 38 Stewart Udall and the future of conservation (2010).