Extinction Rates

TRAMA

As the need increases for sound estimates of impending rates of animal and plant species extinction, scientists must have a firm grounding in the qualitative and quantitative methods required to make the best possible predictions. Extinction Rates offers the most wide-ranging and practical introduction to those methods available. With contributions from an international cast of leading experts, the book combines cutting-edge information on recent and past extinction rates with treatments of underlying ecological and evolutionary causes. Throughout, it highlights apparent differences in extinction rates among taxonomic groups and places, aiming to identify unresolved issues and important questions. Written with advanced undergraduate and graduate students in mind, Extinction Rates will also prove invaluable to researchers in ecology, conservation biology, and the earth and environmental sciences.

NOTE EDITORE

This useful new book answers the need for data-driven estimates of recent (1600 onwards) extinction rates as a basis for more accurate projections of extinction rates for the centuries to come. This book provides a more wide-ranging and data-driven treatment of present and likely future rates of extinction than any text currently available. It is directed broadly at senior undergraduates, postgraduate students and research workers in the 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.

SOMMARIO

1 - Assessing extinction rates2 - Extinctions in the fossil record3 - Constancy and change of life in the sea4 - Insect faunas in ice age environments: why so little extinction?5 - Bird extinctions in the Central Pacific6 - Extinctions in Mediterranean areas7 - Recent past and future extinctions in birds8 - Rates and patterns of extinction among British invertebrates9 - Assessing the risk of plant extinction due to pollinator and disperser failure10 - Population dynamic principles11 - Estimating extinction from molecular phylogenies12 - Biological models for monitoring species decline: the construction and use of databases13 - Classification of species and its role in conservation planning14 - The scale of the human enterprise and biodiversity loss

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780198548294
• Dimensioni: 234 x 14.0 x 156 mm
• Formato: Brossura
• Illustration Notes: line figures, tables
• Pagine Arabe: 246