Research Catalog

Title

The importance of species : perspectives on expendability and triage / edited by Peter Kareiva and Simon A. Levin.

Publication

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2003.

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Additional Authors

• Kareiva, Peter M., 1951-
• Levin, Simon A.
• Paine, Robert T., 1933-

Description

xvi, 427 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Conservation biology > Congresses
• Species diversity > Congresses
• Endangered species > Congresses
• Biodiversity conservation > Congresses

Note

• Papers presented at a symposium held in honor of Robert Treat Paine, upon the occasion of his retirement from the University of Washington.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-413) and index.

Contents

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 fist, 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 ... [et al.] -- 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.

Call Number

JSE 03-727

ISBN

• 0691090041 (alk. paper)
• 069109005X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2002025137

OCLC

49260982

Title

The importance of species : perspectives on expendability and triage / edited by Peter Kareiva and Simon A. Levin.

Imprint

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2003.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-413) and index.

Added Author

Kareiva, Peter M., 1951-

Levin, Simon A.

Paine, Robert T., 1933-

Research Call Number

JSE 03-727