Extinction Rates

This is a wide-ranging study of current and likely future species extinction rates, aimed at students and researchers in the environmental sciences. It highlights apparent differences in extinction rates among taxonomic groups and places, aiming to identify unresolved issues.

I would strongly recommend Extinction Rates to all those listed as being the target audience on the back cover (senior undergraduates, postgraduate students, and research workers in the general fields of ecology, conservation biology and the environmental sciences). It would make an extremely good basis for a final year undergraduate course, or for a graduate school discussion class. I suspect that a wider audience would also gain from reading it.

Klappentext
There is increasing need for good estimates of impending rates of extinction of plant and animal species, based on an understanding of extinction rates in the recent and far past, and on the underlying ecological and evolutionary causes. This book provides a more wide-ranging and data-driven treatment of current and likely future extinction rates than has previously been drawn together in one place. It is directed broadly at senior undergraduates, postgraduate students, and research workers in the general fields of ecology, conservation biology, and the environmental sciences. The authors highlight apparent differences in extinction rates among taxonomic groups and places, aiming to identify unresolved issues and important questions.

Inhalt
Preface
1: Assessing extinction rates
2: Extinctions in the fossil record
3: Constancy and change of life in the sea
4: Insect faunas in ice age environments: why so little extinction?
5: Bird extinctions in the Central Pacific
6: Extinctions in Mediterranean areas
7: Recent past and future extinctions in birds
8: Rates and patterns of extinction among British invertebrates
9: Assessing the risk of plant extinction due to pollinator and disperser failure
10: Population dynamic principles
11: Estimating extinction from molecular phylogenies
12: Biological models for monitoring species decline: the construction and use of databases
13: Classification of species and its role in conservation planning
14: The scale of the human enterprise and biodiversity loss
Author index
Subject index

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