Survival or Extinction?, Bridget Martin

Автор: Arcadi Adam Clark
Название: Wild Chimpanzees
ISBN: 1316647560 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316647561
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Offering a portrait of the social behavior and conservation status of our nearest primate relatives, this book summarizes findings from seven long-term field studies. The chapters cover a range of behaviors, from cooperative lethal aggression to communication and culture, making it an ideal resource for both students and researchers.

Автор: Alicia Rogerson, Penny Jaye
Название: One Potoroo: A Story of Survival
ISBN: 1486314643 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781486314645
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: A conservation tale of the Gilbert`s Potoroo - Australia`s rarest mammal. When a bushfire destroys Potoroo`s home, he becomes one of the last surviving Gilbert`s Potoroos at Two Peoples Bay in Western Australia. Frightened, hurt and alone, Potoroo needs a new home. Luckily, a team of conservationists know where Potoroo can go to be safe.

Автор: Norment Christopher
Название: Relicts of a Beautiful Sea: Survival, Extinction, and Conservation in a Desert World
ISBN: 1469668785 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469668789
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Описание: Along a tiny spring in a narrow canyon near Death Valley, seemingly against all odds, an Inyo Mountain slender salamander makes its home. "The desert," writes conservation biologist Christopher Norment, "is defined by the absence of water, and yet in the desert there is water enough, if you live properly." Relicts of a Beautiful Sea explores the existence of rare, unexpected, and sublime desert creatures such as the black toad and four pupfishes unique to the desert West. All are anomalies: amphibians and fish, dependent upon aquatic habitats, yet living in one of the driest places on earth, where precipitation averages less than four inches per year. In this climate of extremes, beset by conflicts over water rights, each species illustrates the work of natural selection and the importance of conservation. This is also a story of persistence--for as much as ten million years--amid the changing landscape of western North America. By telling the story of these creatures, Norment illustrates the beauty of evolution and explores ethical and practical issues of conservation: what is a four-inch-long salamander worth, hidden away in the heat-blasted canyons of the Inyo Mountains, and what would the cost of its extinction be? What is any lonely and besieged species worth, and why should we care?

Название: Extinction studies
ISBN: 0231178816 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231178815
Издательство: Wiley
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Extinction Studies asks what extinction focuses on the entangled ecological and social dimensions of extinction, exploring the ways in which extinction catastrophically interrupts life-giving processes of time, death, and generations. The volume opens up important philosophical questions about our place in, and obligations to, a more-than-human world. Drawing on fieldwork, philosophy, literature, history, and a range of other perspectives, each of the chapters in this book tells a unique extinction story that explores what extinction is, what it means, why it matters--and to whom.

Автор: Charles S. Cockell
Название: Impossible Extinction
ISBN: 0521817366 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521817363
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: During the Earth`s journey around the Milky Way Galaxy, comets and asteroids strike its surface, stars explode near by, and enormous volcanoes erupt. While many animals and plants become extinct, microbes survive the journey and this engaging book delves into their fascinating world to explain how they survive.

Автор: Jean Guex
Название: Retrograde Evolution During Major Extinction Crises
ISBN: 3319279165 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319279169
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This book is the first of its kind, providing in-depth analysis of the retrograde evolution occurring during major extinction periods. The text offers a non-strictly adaptative explanation of repetition of phyla after the major extinctions, utilizing a study of seven phylogenetically distinct groups.

Автор: W.L. Minckley, James E. Deacon
Название: Battle Against Extinction: Native Fish Management in the American West
ISBN: 0816537836 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780816537839
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Описание: In 1962 the Green River was poisoned and its native fishes killed so that the new Flaming Gorge Reservoir could be stocked with non-native game fishes for sportsmen. This incident was representative of water management in the West, where dams and other projects have been built to serve human needs without consideration for the effects of water diversion or depletion on the ecosystem. Indeed, it took a Supreme Court decision in 1976 to save Devils Hole pupfish from habitat destruction at the hands of developers.

Nearly a third of the native fish fauna of North America lives in the arid West; this book traces their decline toward extinction as a result of human interference and the threat to their genetic diversity posed by decreases in their populations. What can be done to slow or end this tragedy? As the most comprehensive treatment ever attempted on the subject, Battle Against Extinction shows how conservation efforts have been or can be used to reverse these trends.

In covering fishes in arid lands west of the Mississippi Valley, the contributors provide a species-by-species appraisal of their status and potential for recovery, bringing together in one volume nearly all of the scattered literature on western fishes to produce a monumental work in conservation biology. They also ponder ethical considerations related to the issue, ask why conservation efforts have not proceeded at a proper pace, and suggest how native fish protection relates to other aspects of biodiversity planetwide. Their insights will allow scientific and public agencies to evaluate future management of these animal populations and will offer additional guidance for those active in water rights and conservation biology.

First published in 1991, Battle Against Extinction is now back in print and available as an open-access e-book thanks to the Desert Fishes Council.

Автор: Carolyn Hogg, Samantha Fox, David Pemberton, Kathe
Название: Saving the Tasmanian Devil: Recovery through Science-based Management
ISBN: 1486307183 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781486307180
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Описание: The Tasmanian devil is threatened by Devil Facial Tumour Disease (DFTD), a transmissible form of cancer that has reduced the population by over 80%. This book documents the journey taken by organisations in discovering what DFTD is, the effect it has on wild devil populations, and the outcomes achieved through research and management actions.

Автор: Godfrey Harris
Название: Ivorys Cultural Significance
ISBN: 0935047808 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780935047806
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Описание: The book provides a basic understanding and history of ivory along with a discussion and photographs of its many uses. It argues that ivory collected from elephants that die of natural causes, are culled from authorised hunts, that come from archeological sites and are recycled should be allowed to move in international trade with the proceeds going to programs to end poaching.

Автор: Manuel Esteban Lucas-Borja
Название: Endangered Species: Habitat, Protection & Ecological Significance
ISBN: 1622575326 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781622575329
Издательство: Nova Science
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Описание: Natural ecosystems provide the basic conditions without which humanity could not survive. Good and services provided by ecosystems include for example provision of food, fibre and fuel, purification of water and air, cultural and aesthetic benefits, stabilization and moderation of the Earths climate, generation and renewal of soil fertility, including nutrient cycling or maintenance of genetic resources as key inputs to crop varieties and livestock breeds, medicines, and other products. However, the ability of biological diversity to continue performing these services is seriously threatened since some species are being seriously deteriorated, and in some cases destroyed. While loss of species has always occurred as a natural phenomenon, the pace of extinction has accelerated dramatically as a result of human activity. Ecosystems are being fragmented or eliminated, and innumerable species are in decline or already extinct. This book is divided into ten chapters, which are all related to endangered species research studies.

Автор: John W. Tunnell, Ernesto A. Chavez, Kim Withers
Название: Arrecifes Coralinos del sur del Golfo de Mexico
ISBN: 1603447814 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781603447812
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Описание: Coral reefs declined worldwide during the 1980s and 1990s, making them perhaps the most endangered marine ecosystem on Earth. This realization spurred John W. Tunnell Jr. and others to write a comprehensive book that would raise awareness of coral reefs and their plight. Tunnell and coeditors Ernesto A. Chávez and Kim Withers present an integrated and broad-ranging synthesis, while Mexican and U.S. experts assess the current state of these fragile systems and offer a framework for their restoration. Beginning with a history of the research done in this region, Coral Reefs of the Southern Gulf of Mexico covers the geography, geology, oceanography, ecology, and biodiversity of the thirty-eight “emergent” or platform-type coral reefs in the southern Gulf. The editors include chapters on the biota—from algae to fish—followed by a look at environmental impacts, both natural (such as hurricanes and red tides) and human (such as ship groundings and dredging). The book closes with a discussion of conservation issues, which is both descriptive and prescriptive in its assessment of what has been done and what should be done to protect and manage these vital ecosystems.

Автор: Christie Peter
Название: Unnatural Companions: Rethinking Our Love of Pets in an Age of Wildlife Extinction
ISBN: 161091970X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781610919708
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Описание: A deep dive into the impact that pets have on wildlife, ending in a call-to-action for animal lovers.