Kareiva / Levin The Importance of Species

Perspectives on Expendability and Triage
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6677-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 440 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kareiva, Peter

Levin, Simon A.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors ix

Preface xiii

Foreword xv

Part I: USING EXPERIMENTAL REMOVALS OF SPECIES TO REVEAL THE CONSEQUENCES OF BIODIVERSITY DEPLETION P. Kareiva and S. A. Levin 1

1. Native Thistles: Expendable or Integral to Ecosystem Resistance to Invasion? S. M. Louda and T. A. Rand 5

2. The Overriding Importance of Environmental Context in Determining the Outcome of Species-Deletion Experiments B. A. Menge 16

3. Species Importance and Context: Spatial and Temporal Variation in Species Interactions C.D.G. Harley 44

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 69

5. Understanding the Effects of Reduced Biodiversity: A Comparison of Two Approaches J. T. Wootton and A. L. Downing 85

Part II: THE ANTHROPOGENIC PERSPECTIVE P. Kareiva and S. A. Levin 105

6. Models of Ecosystem Reliability and Their Implications for the Question of Expendability S. Naeem 109

7. Predicting the Effects of Species Loss on Community Stability D. Doak and M. Marvier 140

8. One Fish, Two Fish, Old Fish, New Fish: Which Invasions Matter? J. L. Ruesink 161

9. Ecological Gambling: Expendable Extinctions Versus Acceptable Invasions M. J. Wonham 179

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 206

11. Community and Ecosystem Impacts of Single-Species Extinctions D. Simberloff 221

Part III: LINKAGES AND EXTERNALITIES P. Kareiva and S. A. Levin 235

12. Social Conflict, Biological Ignorance, and Trying to Agree Which Species Are Expendable E. G. Leigh Jr. 239

13. Which Mutualists Are Most Essential? Buffering of Plant Reproduction against the Extinction of Pollinators W. F. Morris 260

14. The Expendability of Species: A Test Case Based on the Caterpillars on Goldenrods R. B. Root 281

15. An Evolutionary Perspective on the Importance of Species: Why Ecologists Care about Evolution S. R. Palumbi 292

16. Recovering Species of Conservation Concern-Are Populations Expendable? M. Ruckelshaus, P. McElhany, and M. J. Ford 305

17. Virus Specificity in Disease Systems: Are Species Redundant? A. G. Power and A. S. Flecker 330

Conclusion P. Kareiva and S. A. Levin 347

References 353

Index 415

Über Autor(innen)

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.