Ecosystem Management Selected Readings - Samson, Fred B.; Knopf, Fritz L.; SpringerLink (Online service) (New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 1996)
1: Understand Diversity -- 1. Biodiversity and Stability in Grasslands -- 2. Biological Diversity: Where Is It? -- 3. Neotropical Mammals and the Myth of Amazonian Biodiversity -- 4. Conservation of Stream Fishes: Patterns of Diversity, Rarity, and Risk -- 5. Scale Perspectives on Avian Diversity in Western Riparian Ecosystems -- 6. Beyond "Hotspots": How to Prioritize Investments to Conserve Biodiversity in the Indo-Pacific Region -- 7. Avian Community Dynamics are Discordant in Space and Time -- 8. Identifying Extinction Threats: Global Analyses of the Distribution of Biodiversity and the Expansion of the Human Enterprise -- 2: Restore Ecological Processes -- 9. The Preservation of Process: The Missing Element of Conservation Programs -- 10. Disturbance and Population Structure on the Shifting Mosaic Landscape -- 11. Fire Frequency and Community Heterogeneity in Tallgrass Prairie Vegetation -- 12. Management Practices in Tallgrass Prairie: Large- and Small-Scale Experimental Effects on Species Composition -- 13. Fire History and Vegetation Dynamics of a Chamaecyparis Thyoides Wetland on Cape Cod, Massachusetts -- 14. Organisms as Ecosystem Engineers -- 15. Modeling Complex Ecological Economic Systems: Toward an Evolutionary, Dynamic Understanding of People and Nature -- 16. Disturbance, Diversity, and Invasion: Implications for Conservation -- 3: Emphasize Biotic Integrity -- 17. Biological Invasions and Ecosystem Processes: Towards an Integration of Population Biology and Ecosystem Studies -- 18. No Park Is an Island: Increase in Interference from Outside as Park Size Decreases -- 19. Community-Wide Consequences of Trout Introduction in New Zealand Streams -- 20. Variation Among Desert Topminnows in Their Susceptibility to Attack by Exotic Parasites -- 21. A Test of the Vegetation Mosaic Hypothesis: A Hypothesis to Explain the Decline and Extinction of Australian Mammals -- 22. Fish Assemblage Recovery Along a Riverine Disturbance Gradient -- 23. Plant Invasions and the Role of Riparian Habitats: A Comparison of Four Species Alien to Central Europe -- 24. Biological Integrity Versus Biological Diversity as Policy Directives: Protecting Biotic Resources -- 4: Promote Ecological Sustainability -- 25. Great Ideas in Ecology for the 1990s -- 26. 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 -- 27. Sustainable Use of the Tropical Rain Forest: Evidence from the Avifauna in a Shifting-Cultivation Habitat Mosaic in the Colombian Amazon -- 28. The Effects of Management Systems on Ground-Foraging Ant Diversity in Costa Rica -- 29. An Approach for Managing Vertebrate Diversity Across Multiple-Use Landscapes -- 30. Cross-Scale Morphology, Geometry, and Dynamics of Ecosystems -- 31. Scale and Biodiversity Policy: A Hierarchical Approach -- 32. Population, Sustainability, and Earth's Carrying Capacity -- 33. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function.
Keywords: Ecology .; Geoecology; Environmental geology; Nature conservation; Ecology; Geoecology/Natural Processes; Nature Conservation