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Zusatztext I would strongly recommend Extinction Rates to all those listed as being the target audience on the back cover (senior undergraduates, postgraduate students, and research workers in the general fields of ecology, conservation biology and the environmental sciences). It would make an extremely good basis for a final year undergraduate course, or for a graduate school discussion class. I suspect that a wider audience would also gain from reading it. Klappentext There is increasing need for good estimates of impending rates of extinction of plant and animal species, based on an understanding of extinction rates in the recent and far past, and on the underlying ecological and evolutionary causes. This book provides a more wide-ranging and data-driven treatment of current and likely future extinction rates than has previously been drawn together in one place. It is directed broadly at senior undergraduates, postgraduate students, and research workers in the general 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. Zusammenfassung 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. 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 ...
