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xiii, 584 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 521-570) and index. |
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Contents Note: |
Contents: Conservation biology and the "real world" / Michael E Soulé -- Section 1. The fitness and viability of populations -- Minimum viable populations: processes of species extinction / Michael E. Gilpin and Michael E. Soulé -- Inbreeding in natural populations of birds and mammals / Katherine Ralls, Paul H. Harvey and Anna Marie Lyles -- Heterozygosity and fitness in natural populations of animals / Fred W. Allendorf and Robb F. Leary -- Heterozygosity, heterosis, and fitness in outbreeding plants / F. Thomas Ledig -- Coadaptation and outbreeding depression / Alan R. Templeton -- Section 2. Patterns of diversity and rarity: their implications of conservation -- Diversity, rarity, and conservation in Mediterranean-climate regions / Martin L. Cody -- Endemism in tropical versus temperate plant communities / Alwyn H. Gentry -- Seven forms of rarity and their frequency in the flora of the British Isles / Deborah Rabinowitz, Sara Cairns and Theresa Dillon -- Commonness and rarity in a neotropical forest: implications for tropical tree conservation / Stephen P. Hubbell and Robin B. Foster -- Section 3. The effects of fragmentation -- Habitat fragmentation in the temperate zone / David S. Wilcove, Charles H. McLellan and Andrew P. Dobson -- Edge and other effects of isolation on Amazon forest / T.E. Lovejoy, R.O. Bierregaard, Jr., A.B. Rylands, J.R. Malcolm, C.E. Quintela, L.H. Harper, K.S. Brown, Jr., A.H. Powell, G.V.N. Powell, H.O.R. Schubart, and M.B. Hays -- The eternal external threat / Daniel H. Janzen -- Section 4. Community processes -- Community stability and structure / Stuart L. Pimm -- Keystone plant resources in the tropical forest / John Terborgh -- Disease and conservation / Andrew P. Dobson and Robert M. May -- Section 5. Sensitive habitats: threats and management -- Shallow tropical marine environments / Robert E. Johannes and B.G. Hatcher -- Tropical continental aquatic habitats / Harald Sioli -- Tropical deforestation and a mega-extinction spasm / Norman Myers -- Local effects of tropical deforestation / Carl F. Jordan -- Cave faunas / David C. Culver -- Desertization in African arid lands / Henri Nöel le Houérou and Hubert Gillet -- Section 6. Interacting with the real world -- Restoration, reclamation, and regeneration of degraded or destroyed ecosystems / John Cairns, Jr. -- The design of a nature reserve system for Indonesian New Guinea / Jared Diamond -- Intrinsic value: will the defenders of nature please rise? / Arne Naess. |
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Additional Physical Forms: |
Online version: Conservation biology. Sunderland, Mass. : Sinauer Associates, ©1986 (OCoLC)768267515 |
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Table of contents http://www.gbv.de/dms/bs/toc/016562976.pdf |