Restoration of Endangered Species ：Conceptual Issues, Planning and Implementation

Publication subTitle ：Conceptual Issues, Planning and Implementation

Author： Marlin L. Bowles; Christopher J. Whelan

Publisher： Cambridge University Press‎

Publication year： 1994

E-ISBN: 9780511833458

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780521418638

Subject： Q14 Biological Ecology (Ecology)

Keyword：生态学（生物生态学）

Language： ENG

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Restoration of Endangered Species

Description

As the human impact on the earth leads to ever increasing environmental degradation, the restoration of dwindling populations of numerous plant and animal species is becoming ever more important. In this unique volume, the political, biological and experimental procedures affecting the restoration of natural populations are examined using a range of case studies.

Chapter

I Conceptual issues in restoration ecology

1 Organizational and managerial guidelines for endangered species restoration programs and recovery teams

2 Genetic considerations for plant population restoration and conservation

3 Managing genetic diversity in captive populations of animals

4 The relationship of rarity to plant reproductive biology

5 Experimental evidence for insect impact on populations of short-lived, perennial plants, and its application in restoration ecology

II Restoration planning

6 Impacts of biological invasions on the management and recovery of rare plants in Haleakala National Park, Maui, Hawaii

7 Disturbance-dependent persistence of rare plants: anthropogenic impacts and restoration implications

8 A metapopulation approach to Pitcher's thistle (Cirsium pitched) recovery in southern Lake Michigan dunes

9 Restoration of woodland caribou to the Lake Superior region

III Implemented restorations

10 The swift fox reintroduction program in Canada from 1983 to 1992

11 Restoration of the endangered black-footed ferret: a twenty-year overview

12 Development and implementation of a recovery program for the federally threatened Lakeside daisy

13 Demographic monitoring and the recovery of endangered plant populations

IV Synthesis and future directions: biology, politics and reality

14 Restoration ecology: living with the Prime Directive

Taxonomic Index

Subject Index

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