The importance of species
Subtitle: perspectives on expendability and triage
By: edited by Peter Kareiva and Simon A. Levin.
Contributors: Kareiva, Peter M., 1951-; Levin, Simon A.; Paine, Robert T., 1933-
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 427
Subjects: Conservation biology -- Congresses; Species diversity -- Congresses; Endangered species -- Congresses; Biodiversity conservation -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Papers presented at a symposium held in honor of Robert Treat Paine, upon the occasion of his retirement from the University of Washington.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-413) and index.
Table of contents: title: Native thistles: expendable or integral to ecosystem resistance to invasion? / S.M. Louda and T.A. Rand; title: The overriding importance of environmental context in determining the outcome of species-deletion experiments / B.A. Menge; title: Species importance and context: spatial and temporal variation in species interactions / C.D.G. Harley; title: Effects on removing a vertebrate versus an invertebrate predator on a food web, and what is their relative importance / T.W. Schoener and D.A. Spiller; title: Understanding the effects of reduced biodiversity: a comparison of two approaches / J.T. Wootton and A.L. Downing; title: Models of ecosystem reliability and their implications for the question of expendability / S. Naeem; title: Predicting the effects of species loss on community stability / D. Doak and M. Marvier; title: One fish, two fish, old fish, new fish: which invasions matter? / J.L. Ruesink; title: Ecological gambling: expendable extinctions versus acceptable invasions / M.J. Wonham; title: Rarity and functional importance in a phytoplankton community / D.E. Schindler ... [et al.]; title: Community and ecosystem impacts of single-species extinctions / D. Simberloff; title: Social conflict, biological ignorance, and trying to agree which species are expendable / E.G. Leigh Jr.; title: Which mutualists are most essential? Buffering of plant reproduction against the extinction of pollinators / W.F. Morris; title: The expendability of species: a test case based on the caterpillars on goldenrods / R.B. Root; title: An evolutionary perspective on the importance of species: why ecologists care about evolution / S.R. Palumbi; title: Recovering species of conservation concern-are populations expendable? / M. Ruckelshaus, P. McElhany, and M.J. Ford; title: Virus specificity in disease systems: are species redundant? / A.G. Power and A.S. Flecker.