The Importance of Species : Perspectives on Expendability and Triage.

Peter Kareiva and Simon A. Levin (Editors).

ISBN 10: 069109005X / ISBN 13: 9780691090054

Editore: Princeton University Press., Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A., 2003

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• Titolo: The Importance of Species : Perspectives on Expendability and Triage.
• Editore: Princeton University Press., Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A.
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 069109005X
• ISBN 13: 9780691090054
• Rilegatura: Soft cover
• Condizione: Near Fine
• Tipo di libro: Book
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Botany
  • Zoology - Vertebrate
  • Zoology - Invertebrate

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Riassunto

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, say, spotted owls or snail darters be? Are some species expendable?


Given the reality of limited money for conservation efforts, there is a compelling need for scientists to help conservation practitioners set priorities and identify species most in need of urgent attention. Ecology should be capable of providing guidance that goes beyond the obvious impulse to protect economically valuable species (salmon) or aesthetically appealing ones (snow leopards). Although some recent books have considered the ecosystem services provided by biodiversity as an aggregate property, this is the first to focus on the value of particular species. It provides the scientific approaches and analyses available for asking what we can expect from losing (or gaining) species.


The contributors are outstanding ecologists, theoreticians, and evolutionary biologists who gathered for a symposium honoring Robert T. Paine, the community ecologist who experimentally demonstrated that a single predator species can act as a keystone species whose removal dramatically alters entire ecosystem communities. They build on Paine's work here by exploring whether we can identify species that play key roles in ecosystems before they are lost forever. These are some of our finest ecologists asking some of our hardest questions.


They are, in addition to the editors, S.E.B. Abella, G. C. Chang, D. Doak, A. L. Downing, W. T. Edmondson, A. S. Flecker, M. J. Ford, C.D.G. Harley, E. G. Leigh Jr., S. Lubetkin, S. M. Louda, M. Marvier, P. McElhany, B. A. Menge, W. F. Morris, S. Naeem, S. R. Palumbi, A. G. Power, T. A. Rand, R. B. Root, M. Ruckelshaus, J. Ruesink, D. E. Schindler, T. W. Schoener, D. Simberloff, D. A. Spiller, M. J. Wonham, and J. T. Wootton.

Informazioni sull?autore

Peter Kareiva is a member of The Nature Conservancy's Science Council and the lead scientist for the Pacific Region. Coeditor of Spatial Ecology (Princeton) and other books, he has also taught at Brown University and the University of Washington. Simon A. Levin is George M. Moffett Professor of Biology at Princeton University. He is the author of Fragile Dominion and served as Editor in Chief of the five-volume Encyclopedia of Biodiversity.