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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Auteur(s) : Wiens, John A.
Titre(s) : Ecological challenges and conservation conundrums [Texte électronique] : essays and reflections for a changing world / John A. Wiens
Publication : Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2016
Description matérielle : 1 online resource
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781118895078
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45110079t
Notice n° :
FRBNF45110079
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Table des matières : Essay 1. How did I get here? -- ; Essay 2. Found! The survivor in the swamps (2005)
-- ; Essay 3. In defense of footnotes (2014) -- ; pt. 1.. Change, the challenge --
; ch. 1. Conservation and change -- ; ch. 2 A. digression on paradigms -- ; Essay
4 The. power of paradigms (2014) -- ; Essay 5. Patterns, paradigms, and preconceptions
(2013) -- ; Essay 6. Fat times, lean times, and competition among predators (1993)
-- ; ch. 3. Equilibrium, stability, and change -- ; Essay 7. From our southern correspondent(s)
(2011) -- ; Essay 8. Boom and bust: lessons from the outback (2014) -- ; ch. 4 A.
digression on disturbance -- ; Essay 9. Oil, oil, everywhere ... (2010) -- ; pt. 2.
The. forces of change -- ; ch. 5. Climate change and sea-level rise -- ; Essay 10.
Polar bears, golden toads, and conservation futures (2008) -- ; ch. 6. Land-use change
-- ; Essay 11. Will land-use change erode our conservation gains? (2007) -- ; Essay
12. Landscape ecology: the science and the action (1999) -- ; ch. 7. Distributional
changes: invasive species -- ; ch. 8. Societal, cultural, and political change --
; Essay 13. Wildlife, people, and water: who wins? (2012) -- ; ch. 9. Population growth
-- ; ch. 10. Linkages among changes -- ; pt. 3.. Conservation conundrums -- ; ch.
11. Variation and history -- ; Essay 14 The. eclipse of history? (2008) -- ; Essay
15. From our southern correspondent(s): which history? (2013) -- ; ch. 12 A. digression
on baselines and targets -- ; Essay 16. Shooting at a moving target (2011) -- ; ch.
13. Ecological thresholds -- ; Essay 17. Tipping points in the balance of nature (2010)
-- ; ch. 14. Ecological resilience -- ; ch. 15. Dealing with novelty -- ; Essay 18.
Black swans and outliers (2012) -- ; Essay 19. Moving outside the box (2009) -- ;
ch. 16. Uncertainty: a boon or a bane? -- ; Essay 20. Taking risks with the environment
(2012) -- ; Essay 21. Uncertainty and the relevance of ecology (2008) -- ; ch. 17.
Prioritization and triage -- ; Essay 22. Talking about triage in conservation (2015)
-- ; ch. 18. Protected areas: where the wild things are -- ; Essay 23. Build it and
they will come (2013) -- ; Essay 24 The. dangers of black-and-white conservation (2007)
-- ; ch. 19. Ecosystem services and the value of nature -- ; Essay 25. What's so new
about ecosystem services? (2007) -- ; pt. 4.. Doing conservation -- ; ch. 20. What
is it we are trying to conserve? -- ; Essay 26. Be careful what you wish for (2014)
-- ; Essay 27. Concluding comments: Are bird communities real? (1980) -- ; Essay 28
A. metaphor meets an abstraction: the issue of "Healthy Ecosystems" (2015) -- ; ch.
21. Numbers, numbers, numbers -- ; Essay 29. Is "monitoring" a dirty word? (2009)
-- ; Essay 30 The. place of long-term studies in ornithology (1984) -- ; Essay 31.
What use is small data in a big data world? (2013) -- ; ch. 22 A. digression on words
-- ; Essay 32. Word processing versus writing (1983, 2011) -- ; ch. 23. Debates in
ecology and conservation -- ; Essay 33. On skepticism and criticism in ornithology
(1981) -- ; Essay 34 The. demise of wildness? (2007) -- ; ch. 24. What lies behind
the debates? Philosophy, values, and ethics -- ; ch. 25 A. digression on advocacy
in conservation -- ; Essay 35. Scientific responsibility and responsible ecology (1997)
-- ; pt. 5.. Concluding comments -- ; ch. 26. Whither ecology and conservation in
a changing world? -- ; Essay 36. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."
(2009) -- ; Essay 37. Being green isn't easy (2010) -- ; Essay 38. Stewart Udall and
the future of conservation (2010).
