The Importance of Species
Subtitle: Perspectives on Expendability and Triage
Contributors: Peter Kareiva (Editor); Simon A. Levin (Editor)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: January 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780691090047
Subjects: Endangered species & extinction of species; Environmental Science; Zoology & animal sciences; Nature; Endangered species; Biological Variation; Conservation Of Natural Resources (General); Species diversity; Environmental Studies; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Science/Mathematics; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Wildlife; Biological Sciences; Science / Biology; Biological diversity conservat; Congresses; Conservation biology
First sentence: For decades, Bob Paine has exhorted ecologists to conduct field experiments in which species are removed and the community-wide responses to those removals noted.