There is increasing need for good estimates of impending rates of extinction of plant and animal species, based on an understanding of extinction rates in the recent and far past, and on the underlying ecological and evolutionary causes. This book provides a more wide-ranging and data-driven treatment of current and likely future extinction rates than has previously been drawn together in one place. It is directed broadly at senior undergraduates, postgraduate students, and research workers in the general fields of ecology, conservation biology, and the environmental sciences. The authors…mehr
There is increasing need for good estimates of impending rates of extinction of plant and animal species, based on an understanding of extinction rates in the recent and far past, and on the underlying ecological and evolutionary causes. This book provides a more wide-ranging and data-driven treatment of current and likely future extinction rates than has previously been drawn together in one place. It is directed broadly at senior undergraduates, postgraduate students, and research workers in the general fields of ecology, conservation biology, and the environmental sciences. The authors highlight apparent differences in extinction rates among taxonomic groups and places, aiming to identify unresolved issues and important questions.
* Preface * 1: Assessing extinction rates * 2: Extinctions in the fossil record * 3: Constancy and change of life in the sea * 4: Insect faunas in ice age environments: why so little extinction? * 5: Bird extinctions in the Central Pacific * 6: Extinctions in Mediterranean areas * 7: Recent past and future extinctions in birds * 8: Rates and patterns of extinction among British invertebrates * 9: Assessing the risk of plant extinction due to pollinator and disperser failure * 10: Population dynamic principles * 11: Estimating extinction from molecular phylogenies * 12: Biological models for monitoring species decline: the construction and use of databases * 13: Classification of species and its role in conservation planning * 14: The scale of the human enterprise and biodiversity loss * Author index * Subject index
* Preface * 1: Assessing extinction rates * 2: Extinctions in the fossil record * 3: Constancy and change of life in the sea * 4: Insect faunas in ice age environments: why so little extinction? * 5: Bird extinctions in the Central Pacific * 6: Extinctions in Mediterranean areas * 7: Recent past and future extinctions in birds * 8: Rates and patterns of extinction among British invertebrates * 9: Assessing the risk of plant extinction due to pollinator and disperser failure * 10: Population dynamic principles * 11: Estimating extinction from molecular phylogenies * 12: Biological models for monitoring species decline: the construction and use of databases * 13: Classification of species and its role in conservation planning * 14: The scale of the human enterprise and biodiversity loss * Author index * Subject index
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