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The wolf's tooth : keystone predators, trophic cascades, and biodiversity
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The wolf's tooth : keystone predators, trophic cascades, and biodiversity

Author: Cristina Eisenberg
Publisher: Washington : Island Press, ©2010.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"For nearly a century ecologists have believed that nature is democratic, governed from the bottom up by the amount of solar energy converted to green biomass, the food of herbivores. Eisenberg makes the case for trophic cascades--an alternative view arguing that ecosystems are often organized from the top down by keystone species such as predators--while diplomatically exploring a path for reconciling these
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Eisenberg, Cristina.
Wolf's tooth.
Washington : Island Press, c2010
(OCoLC)752399101
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Cristina Eisenberg
ISBN: 9781597263979 1597263974 9781597263986 1597263982
OCLC Number: 495597194
Description: xvi, 254 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: Visitors from the North --
Web of life. Patterns in an ecosystem ; Living in a landscape of fear : trophic cascades mechanisms ; Origins : aquatic cascades ; Why the earth is green : terrestrial cascades ; The long view : old-growth rain forest food webs --
Mending the web. All our relations : trophic cascades and the diversity of life ; Creating landscapes of hope : trophic cascades and ecological restoration ; Finding common ground : trophic cascades and ecosystem management --
Lessons from 763.
Responsibility: Cristina Eisenberg.
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Presents a look at the dramatic ecological consequences of predator removal (and return). This title shows how and why animals such as wolves, sea otters, and sharks exert such a disproportionate  Read more...
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"A scientist with a poet's command of language, Cristina Eisenberg writes with precision and passion . . . takes her reader on a breathtaking, sometimes heartbreaking tour of the planet from the Gulf Read more...

 
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