Eric Dinerstein

Kingdom of Rarities (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Kingdom of Rarities presents a new context for understanding rarity and its implications both for our understanding of how the natural world works, and for what it can teach us about protecting biodiversity during a time of large-scale environmental change. Using cutting-edge science from remote outposts around the world, award-winning author Eric Dinerstein animates the key questions that scientists are asking themselves about why some species are so abundant and others not. What are the rarest species and why are they most likely to be found in certain types of environments? Which species have always been rare, and which have only recently been made rare? Which should we seek to protect most?

Throughout, Dinerstein explores rarity as a central principle within conservation biology, advancing both our understanding of the natural world and inspiring the creation of new tools and technologies that can help us add to our knowledge and design more effective conservation strategies. He focuses on real-time threats to biodiversity, from climate change to habitat fragmentation, and draws on his long and distinguished scientific career to illuminate the concept of rarity for readers across the spectrum of scientific knowledge.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Island Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781610912075
• Artikelnr.: 37941704

Autorenporträt

Eric Dinerstein is Lead Scientist and Vice President for Conservation Science at the World Wildlife Fund. His areas of specialty include tropical mammals, large mammal biology, biogeography, bats, rhinos, seed dispersal, and community ecology.

With the World Wildlife Fund, he has led many of the organization's most important scientific projects, including the Global 200 Ecoregions, examples of which form the basis of Tigerland and Other Unintended Destinations. Dinerstein is also the author of The Return of the Unicorns: The Natural History and Conservation of the Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros, among other articles and publications.

He attended Northwestern University and Western Washington University, and did his post-graduate studies at the University of Washington (Organization of Tropical Studies) and the National Zoological Park's Conservation and Research Center.