Systematics, Ecology, and the Biodiversity Crisis

By: Niles Eldredge

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Hardcover | 30 July 1992 | Edition Number 1

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Which species can be saved, when all cannot? Systematics, Ecology, and the Biodiversity Crisis provides critical tools for finding answers to the current of systematic biology. Systematists are in a unique position to identify critical areas of endemism and additional criteria for the identification of habitats and species most urgently in need of protection.
The result of a symposium held at the American Museum of Natural History, this book fills a void created by other volumes that have explored the biodiversity crisis exclusively from an ecological stance. "It may well be that the dynamics of extinction processes will prove to be exclusively in the domain of moment-by-moment interactive processes of matter-energy transfer: the realm of ecology. But the problems of extinction," Eldredge argues, "can be defined, recognized, measured, and assessed only through the tools of the systematist." Included are noted systematists, paleontologists, and ecologists who explore the relationship between ecology and systematics as it pertains to understanding the origin, maintenance, and loss of biological diversity. The role of museums, zoos, and related institutions is also examined.
At a time when our country has only recently awakened to the environmental crisis, Systematics, Ecology, and the Biodiversity Crisis provides urgently needed information for any attempts to understand and ameliorate the present dilemma of extinction and preservation.

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Non-Fiction Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning The Environment Applied Ecology Biodiversity Science Biology, Life Sciences Life Sciences in General Ecological Science Science in General Taxonomy & Systematics Conservation of The Environment

Nature & The Natural World Wildlife in General Evolution

Introduction: Systematics, Ecology, and the Biodiversity Crisis
Where the Twain Meet: Causal Intersections Between the Genealogical and Ecological Realms	p. 1
Patterns of Biodiversity	p. 15
Systematic Versus Ecological Diversity: The Example of the Malagasy Primates	p. 25
Spilling Over the Competitive Limits to Species Coexistence	p. 40
Explaining Patterns of Biological Diversity: Integrating Causation at Different Spatial and Temporal Scales	p. 59
Phylogenetic and Ecologic Patterns in the Phanerozoic History of Marine Biodiversity	p. 77
The Meaning of Systematics and the Biodiversity Crisis	p. 101
Phylogenetic Analysis and the Role of Systematics in the Biodiversity Crisis	p. 109
Systematics, Biodiversity, and Conservation Biology	p. 121
Systematics and Marine Conservation	p. 144
The Conservation of Animal Diversity in Cuba	p. 169
Living Collections and Biodiversity	p. 178
Third World Museums and Biodiversity	p. 185
Contributors	p. 199
Index	p. 201
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