Ecosystem Management: Selected Readings

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Biodiversity and Stability in Grasslands....Pages 3-7
Biological Diversity: Where Is It?....Pages 8-9
Neotropical Mammals and the Myth of Amazonian Biodiversity....Pages 10-15
Conservation of Stream Fishes: Patterns of Diversity, Rarity, and Risk....Pages 16-23
Scale Perspectives on Avian Diversity in Western Riparian Ecosystems....Pages 24-31
Beyond “Hotspots”: How to Prioritize Investments to Conserve Biodiversity in the Indo-Pacific Region....Pages 32-45
Avian Community Dynamics Are Discordant in Space and Time....Pages 46-52
Identifying Extinction Threats: Global Analyses of the Distribution of Biodiversity and the Expansion of the Human Enterprise....Pages 53-68
Front Matter....Pages 69-69
The Preservation of Process: The Missing Element of Conservation Programs....Pages 71-75
Disturbance and Population Structure on the Shifting Mosaic Landscape....Pages 76-98
Fire Frequency and Community Heterogeneity in Tallgrass Prairie Vegetation....Pages 99-105
Management Practices in Tallgrass Prairie: Large- and Small-Scale Experimental Effects on Species Composition....Pages 106-115
Fire History and Vegetation Dynamics of a Chamaecyparis Thyoides Wetland on Cape Cod, Massachusetts....Pages 116-129
Organisms as Ecosystem Engineers....Pages 130-147
Modeling Complex Ecological Economic Systems: Toward an Evolutionary, Dynamic Understanding of People and Nature....Pages 148-163
Disturbance, Diversity, and Invasion: Implications for Conservation....Pages 164-180
Front Matter....Pages 181-181
Biological Invasions and Ecosystem Processes: Towards an Integration of Population Biology and Ecosystem Studies....Pages 183-191
No Park Is an Island: Increase in Interference from Outside as Park Size Decreases....Pages 192-202
Community-Wide Consequences of Trout Introduction in New Zealand Streams....Pages 203-215
Variation Among Desert Topminnows in Their Susceptibility to Attack by Exotic Parasites....Pages 216-222
Front Matter....Pages 181-181
A Test of the Vegetation Mosaic Hypothesis: A Hypothesis to Explain the Decline and Extinction of Australian Mammals....Pages 223-235
Fish Assemblage Recovery Along a Riverine Disturbance Gradient....Pages 236-253
Plant Invasions and the Role of Riparian Habitats: A Comparison of Four Species Alien to Central Europe....Pages 254-263
Biological Integrity Versus Biological Diversity as Policy Directives: Protecting Biotic Resources....Pages 264-275
Front Matter....Pages 277-277
Great Ideas in Ecology for the 1990s....Pages 279-284
Can Extractive Reserves Save the Rain Forest? An Ecological and Socioeconomic Comparison of Nontimber Forest Product Extraction Systems in Petén, Guatemala and West Kalimantan, Indonesia....Pages 285-301
Sustainable Use of the Tropical Rain Forest: Evidence from the Avifauna in a Shifting-Cultivation Habitat Mosaic in the Colombian Amazon....Pages 302-312
The Effects of Management Systems on Ground-Foraging Ant Diversity in Costa Rica....Pages 313-330
An Approach for Managing Vertebrate Diversity Across Multiple-Use Landscapes....Pages 331-350
Cross-Scale Morphology, Geometry, and Dynamics of Ecosystems....Pages 351-423
Scale and Biodiversity Policy: A Hierarchical Approach....Pages 424-434
Population, Sustainability, and Earth’s Carrying Capacity....Pages 435-450
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function....Pages 451-455
Back Matter....Pages 457-462