Research Catalog

Title

Ecosystem management : selected readings / [edited by] Fred B. Samson and Fritz L. Knopf.

Publication

New York : Springer, [1996], ©1996.

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Additional Authors

• Samson, Fred B.
• Knopf, Fritz L.

Description

xv, 462 pages : illustrations, maps; 26 cm

Subject

• Ecosystem management
• Biodiversity conservation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Biodiversity and Stability in Grasslands / D. Tilman and J. A. Downing -- 2. Biological Diversity: Where Is It? / S. L. Pimm and J. L. Gittleman -- 3. Neotropical Mammals and the Myth of Amazonian Biodiversity / M. A. Mares -- 4. Conservation of Stream Fishes: Patterns of Diversity, Rarity, and Risk / A. L. Sheldon -- 5. Scale Perspectives on Avian Diversity in Western Riparian Ecosystems / F. L. Knopf and F. B. Samson -- 6. Beyond "Hotspots": How to Prioritize Investments to Conserve Biodiversity in the Indo-Pacific Region / E. Dinerstein and E. D. Wikramanayake -- 7. Avian Community Dynamics are Discordant in Space and Time / K. Bohning-Gaese, M. L. Taper and J. H. Brown -- 8. Identifying Extinction Threats: Global Analyses of the Distribution of Biodiversity and the Expansion of the Human Enterprise / T. D. Sisk, A. E. Launer, K. R. Switky and P. R. Ehrlich --
• 9. The Preservation of Process: The Missing Element of Conservation Programs / T. B. Smith, M. W. Bruford and R. K. Wayne -- 10. Disturbance and Population Structure on the Shifting Mosaic Landscape / J. S. Clark -- 11. Fire Frequency and Community Heterogeneity in Tallgrass Prairie Vegetation / S. L. Collins -- 12. Management Practices in Tallgrass Prairie: Large- and Small-Scale Experimental Effects on Species Composition / D. J. Gibson, T. R. Seastedt and J. M. Briggs -- 13. Fire History and Vegetation Dynamics of a Chamaecyparis Thyoides Wetland on Cape Cod, Massachusetts / G. Motzkin, W. A. Patterson III and N. E. R. Drake -- 14. Organisms as Ecosystem Engineers / C. G. Jones, J. H. Lawton and M. Shachak -- 15. Modeling Complex Ecological Economic Systems: Toward an Evolutionary, Dynamic Understanding of People and Nature / R. Costanza, L. Wainger, C. Folke and K.-G. Maler --
• 16. Disturbance, Diversity, and Invasion: Implications for Conservation / R. J. Hobbs and L. F. Huenneke -- 17. Biological Invasions and Ecosystem Processes: Towards an Integration of Population Biology and Ecosystem Studies / P. M. Vitousek -- 18. No Park Is an Island: Increase in Interference from Outside as Park Size Decreases / D. H. Janzen -- 19. Community-Wide Consequences of Trout Introduction in New Zealand Streams / A. S. Flecker and C. R. Townsend -- 20. Variation Among Desert Topminnows in Their Susceptibility to Attack by Exotic Parasites / P. L. Leberg and R. C. Vrijenhoek -- 21. A Test of the Vegetation Mosaic Hypothesis: A Hypothesis to Explain the Decline and Extinction of Australian Mammals / J. Short and B. Turner -- 22. Fish Assemblage Recovery Along a Riverine Disturbance Gradient / A. D. Kinsolving and M. B. Bain -- 23. Plant Invasions and the Role of Riparian Habitats: A Comparison of Four Species Alien to Central Europe / P. Pysek and K. Prach --
• 24. Biological Integrity Versus Biological Diversity as Policy Directives: Protecting Biotic Resources / P. L. Angermeier and J. R. Karr -- 25. Great Ideas in Ecology for the 1990s / E. P. Odum -- 26. Can Extractive Reserves Save the Rain Forest? An Ecological and Socioeconomic Comparison of Nontimber Forest Product Extraction Systems in Peten, Guatemala, and West Kalimantan, Indonesia / N. Salafsky, B. L. Dugelby and J. W. Terborgh -- 27. Sustainable Use of the Tropical Rain Forest: Evidence from the Avifauna in a Shifting-Cultivation Habitat Mosaic in the Colombian Amazon / G. I. Andrade and H. Rubio-Torgler -- 28. The Effects of Management Systems on Ground-Foraging Ant Diversity in Costa Rica / D. S. Roth, I. Perfecto and B. Rathcke -- 29. An Approach for Managing Vertebrate Diversity Across Multiple-Use Landscapes / A. J. Hansen, S. L. Garman, B. Marks and D. L. Urban -- 30. Cross-Scale Morphology, Geometry, and Dynamics of Ecosystems / C. S. Holling --
• 31. Scale and Biodiversity Policy: A Hierarchical Approach / B. G. Norton and R. E. Ulanowicz -- 32. Population, Sustainability, and Earth's Carrying Capacity / G. C. Daily and P. R. Ehrlich -- 33. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function / P. G. Risser.

ISBN

• 0387946683 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0387946675 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

95051400

OCLC

• 33983321
• ocm33983321

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries