Extinction Rates

Erscheinungsjahr 1997
ISBN: 978-0-19-854829-4
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 377 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lawton, John H.

May, Robert M.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umwelttechnik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Angewandte Ökologie
• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Umwelttechnik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Evolutionsbiologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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