13 Epilogue
14 Glossary
List of Tables
1 Chapter 2Table 2.1 Hypothetical lists of species for three ecosystems.Table 2.2 Abundance of species (number/hectare) in three ecosystems and measu...
2 Chapter 4Table 4.1 Relative abundance of species (percentages) in three hypothetical e...Table 4.2 This example depicts how one type of forest nests within the levels...Table 4.3 A few governments have begun the process of protecting endangered t...
3 Chapter 5Table 5.1 Distribution of two alleles, MDH‐1 x and MDH‐1 y , among five biso...Table 5.2 Proportion of genetic variation remaining after a genetic bottlenec...Table 5.3 The proportion of genetic variation retained in small populations o...Table 5.4 Expected number of alleles remaining aftert generations for a popul...
4 Chapter 6Table 6.1 Numbers of plant and animal species by major taxon listed by the IU...Table 6.2 The ability of organisms to shift their geographic ranges depends o...
5 Chapter 9Table 9.1 Estimate of wild life trade values (for 2005) globally and within t...
6 Chapter 11Table 11.1 The United Nations recognizes seven basic categories of protected ...Table 11.2 A hypothetical series of five progressively larger reserves.
7 Chapter 15Table 15.1 Stephen Kellert has described several types of attitudes that peop...
8 Chapter 16Table 16.1 A biotic invoice, that is, estimated annual economic benefits of b...Table 16.2 Willingness of visitors to pay increased entry fees to access the ...
List of Illustrations
1 Chapter 1Figure 1.1 The roots of conservation can probably be found among the earlies...Figure 1.2 Mount Fuji [top] has been a sacred mountain for the Buddhists and...Figure 1.3 Put yourself in the shoes of John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and Aldo...Figure 1.4 A schematic view of the relationship between conservation biology...Figure 1.5 The Society for Conservation Biology began publishing Conservatio...Figure 1.6 This Española tortoise was among the very first repatriated to th...
2 Chapter 2Figure 2.1 There are few places where biodiversity is as conspicuous as a co...Figure 2.2 Conservationists do not consider all species to merit equal atten...Figure 2.3 The distribution of four hypothetical lizard species showing alph...Figure 2.4 Clear Lake in northern California used to be inhabited by 14 nati...Figure 2.5 What is the state of this Pacific kelp forest? From a biodiversit...
3 Chapter 3Figure 3.1 Over 1.8 million species have been described by scientists, and i...Figure 3.2 The depth of unexplored biodiversity is greatest among small spec...Figure 3.3 These caterpillars represent ten sibling species of what was long...Figure 3.4 A species' intrinsic value is independent of its relationship wit...Figure 3.5 Although most of our food comes from domestic species, a wide var...Figure 3.6 Silphion was a plant of such great commercial value that it was d...Figure 3.7 Natural building materials remain very important, especially in r...Figure 3.8 People enjoy the diversity of nature in many ways. Some seek part...Figure 3.9 Other organisms teach us about our world. Here biologists attach ...Figure 3.10 (Left) This person climbed up and down almost 10 m of glass, at ...Figure 3.11 The ecological impacts of keystone species take many forms. The ...Figure 3.12 With a geographic range reaching from the Russian Far East south...Figure 3.13 Which is more important to conserve, the aardvark or the jerboa?...Figure 3.14 The neem tree provides an extraordinary array of useful products...
4 Chapter 4Figure 4.1 Deciding where one ecosystem begins and another ends is a complex...Figure 4.2 This map depicts the Earth’s terrestrial ecoregions; see text abo...Figure 4.3 Are ecosystems tightly connected systems of closely coevolved spe...Figure 4.4 Some types of ecosystems are rare because most examples have been...Figure 4.5 Relatively few species can tolerate the special conditions of sal...Figure 4.6 Many people visit natural ecosystems to feel a sense of spiritual...Figure 4.7 The narrow riparian zones that border river shores are far more i...Figure 4.8 The strategic value of ecosystems is illustrated by the coarse‐fi...Figure 4.9 The forests of Socotra, a small remote island, could be said to c...Figure 4.10 The extreme climatic conditions of a high‐latitude