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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, 2003.

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Additional Authors

• Kareiva, Peter M., 1951-
• Levin, Simon A.

Description

xvi, 427 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Conservation biology > Congresses
• Endangered species > Congresses
• Species diversity > 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.

Contents

Pt. I. Using Experimental Removals of Species to Reveal the Consequences of Biodiversity Depletion / P. Kareiva and S. A. Levin -- 1. Native Thistles: Expendable or Integral to Ecosystem Resistance to Invasion? / S. M. Louda and T. A. Rand -- 2. The Overriding Importance of Environmental Context in Determining the Outcome of Species-Deletion Experiments / B. A. Menge -- 3. Species Importance and Context: Spatial and Temporal Variation in Species Interactions / C. D. G. Harley -- 4. Effects of Removing a Vertebrate versus an Invertebrate Predator on a Food Web, and What Is Their Relative Importance? / T. W. Schoener and D. A. Spiller -- 5. Understanding the Effects of Reduced Biodiversity: A Comparison of Two Approaches / J. T. Wootton and A. L. Downing -- Pt. II. The Anthropogenic Perspective / P. Kareiva and S. A. Levin -- 6. Models of Ecosystem Reliability and Their Implications for the Question of Expendability / S. Naeem -- 7. Predicting the Effects of Species Loss on Community Stability / D. Doak and M. Marvier -- 8. One Fish, Two Fish, Old Fish, New Fish: Which Invasions Matter? / J. L. Ruesink -- 9. Ecological Gambling: Expendable Extinctions Versus Acceptable Invasions / M. J. Wonham -- 10. Rarity and Functional Importance in a Phytoplankton Community / D. E. Schindler, G. C. Chang, S. Lubetkin, S. E. B. Abella and W. T. Edmondson -- 11. Community and Ecosystem Impacts of Single-Species Extinctions / D. Simberloff -- Pt. III. Linkages and Externalities / P. Kareiva and S. A. Levin -- 12. Social Conflict, Biological Ignorance, and Trying to Agree Which Species Are Expendable / E. G. Leigh, Jr. -- 13. Which Mutualists Are Most Essential? Buffering of Plant Reproduction against the Extinction of Pollinators / W. F. Morris -- 14. The Expendability of Species: A Test Case Based on the Caterpillars on Goldenrods / R. B. Root -- 15. An Evolutionary Perspective on the Importance of Species: Why Ecologists Care about Evolution / S. R. Palumbi -- 16. Recovering Species of Conservation Concern - Are Populations Expendable? / M. Ruckelshaus, P. McElhany and M. J. Ford -- 17. Virus Specificity in Disease Systems: Are Species Redundant? / A. G. Power and A. S. Flecker -- Conclusion / P. Kareiva and S. A. Levin.

ISBN

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

LCCN

2002025137

OCLC

• 49260982
• ocm49260982
• SCSB-4331303

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries