Conservation biogeography / / edited by Richard J. Ladle and Robert J. Whittaker

• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (324 p.)
• Disciplina: 333.95/16; 333.9516; 578.09
• Soggetto topico: Conservation biology; Biodiversity conservation; Protected areas; Biogeography
• Altri autori: LadleRichard J WhittakerRobert J
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Conservation Biogeography; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contributing Authors; PART 1: ROOTS, RELEVANCE, AIMS AND VALUES; CHAPTER 1: The roots of conservation biogeography; 1.1 WHAT IS CONSERVATION BIOGEOGRAPHY?; 1.2 THE EMERGENCE OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY AND CONSERVATION BIOGEOGRAPHY; 1.3 THE SCOPE OF CONSERVATION BIOGEOGRAPHY; 1.3.1 To what ends?; 1.4 OUTLINE OF THE FOLLOWING CHAPTERS; SUGGESTED READING; CHAPTER 2: Social values and conservation biogeography; 2.1 MANY VALUES, MANY GOALS; 2.2 THE ORIGINS AND VALUES OF DIFFERENT PROTECTED AREA TYPES; 2.2.1 Sacred sites ; 2.2.2 Resource and game reserves2.2.3 State and country parks; 2.2.4 Nature monuments and nature reserves; 2.2.5 Wildlife sanctuaries and refuges; 2.2.6 Wilderness areas; 2.2.7 National parks; 2.2.8 Community conservation areas; 2.3 RESERVE DESIGNATIONS FROM INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS; 2.4 AN INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM FOR CATEGORIZING PROTECTED AREAS; 2.5 SOCIAL VALUES AND CONSERVATION PRACTICE; 2.5.1 Attitudes to non-native species; 2.5.2 Restoration and rewilding; 2.6 CONCLUDING REMARKS; FOR DISCUSSION; SUGGESTED READING; CHAPTER 3: Baselines, patterns and process; 3.1 INTRODUCTION ; 3.2 ECOSYSTEM COMPOSITION AND FUNCTION3.3 BALANCE VERSUS FLUX; 3.4 UNDERSTANDING ECOSYSTEMS IN FLUX; 3.5 DEFINING AND USING BASELINES; 3.5.1 Baselines derived from relict pristine systems; 3.5.2 Baselines derived from long-term ecology; 3.5.3 Rewilding; 3.5.4 The challenge of rapide nvironmental change; 3.6 ADAPTIVE ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; FOR DISCUSSION; SUGGESTED READING; PART 2: THE DISTRIBUTION OF DIVERSITY: CHALLENGES AND APPLICATIONS; CHAPTER 4: Basic Biogeography: Estimating Biodiversity and Mapping Nature; 4.1 INTRODUCTION; 4.1.1 Our incomplete knowledge of biodiversity ; 4.1.2 Why do we map?4.2 THREE KNOWLEDGE SHORTFALLS; 4.2.1 The Linnean shortfall; 4.2.2 The Wallacean shortfall; 4.2.3 The extinction estimate shortfall; 4.3 THE FUNDAMENTAL TAXONOMIC UNITS OF CONSERVATION BIOGEOGRAPHY; 4.3.1 Species versus other genetically-based conservation units; 4.3.2 Evolutionarily Significant Units (ESUs); 4.3.3 Other conservation units; 4.4 SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS: FROM GENES TO BIOGEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; 4.4.1 Mapping species individually and collectively; 4.4.2 Phylogeography; 4.4.3 Endemism; 4.4.4 Biogeographical regions; 4.5 MAPPING FUNCTION ; 4.5.1 Biomes, ecosystems and communities4.5.2 Ecoregions; 4.6 NATURAL UNITS IN THE MARINE REALM; FOR DISCUSSION; SUGGESTED READING; CHAPTER 5: The Shaping of the Global Protected Area Estate; 5.1 ORIGINS; 5.2 TYPOLOGY OF FRAMEWORKS; 5.2.1 Spatial classification of approaches - contiguous areas, landscape units and habitat islands; 5.2.2 Biogeographical (compositional) versus Ecological (functional) approaches; 5.2.3 Strategic goals - composition,function, numbers and attributes; 5.3 TERRESTRIAL PROTECTED AREA SCHEMES; 5.3.1 IUCN Biogeographical Regions (Dasmann-Udvardy) scheme ; 5.3.2 Endemic Bird Areas
• Sommario/riassunto: The Earth's ecosystems are in the midst of an unprecedented period of change as a result of human action. Many habitats have been completely destroyed or divided into tiny fragments, others have been transformed through the introduction of new species, or the extinction of native plants and animals, while anthropogenic climate change now threatens to completely redraw the geographic map of life on this planet. The urgent need to understand and prescribe solutions to this complicated and interlinked set of pressing conservation issues has lead to the transformation of the venerable academic dis
• Titolo autorizzato: Conservation biogeography
• ISBN: 1-283-40781-7; 9786613407818; 1-4443-9001-5; 1-4443-9000-7; 1-4443-3504-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910141137003321
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