Quantification of extinction risk: IUCN's system for classifying threatened species

GM Mace, NJ Collar, KJ Gaston… - Conservation …, 2008‏ - Wiley Online Library
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species
was increasingly used during the 1980s to assess the conservation status of species for …

The geographic range: size, shape, boundaries, and internal structure

JH Brown, GC Stevens… - Annual review of ecology …, 1996‏ - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Comparative, quantitative biogeographic studies are revealing empirical patterns
of interspecific variation in the sizes, shapes, boundaries, and internal structures of …

Range contractions of the world's large carnivores

C Wolf, WJ Ripple - Royal Society open science, 2017‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
The majority of the world's terrestrial large carnivores have undergone substantial range
contractions and many of these species are currently threatened with extinction. However …

[ספר][B] The structure and dynamics of geographic ranges

KJ Gaston - 2003‏ - books.google.com
No species occurs everywhere. Indeed, the majority are absent from most places, and where
they do occur they are usually quite rare. Gaston discusses the structure of these …

Elevation gradients of species‐density: historical and prospective views

MV Lomolino - Global Ecology and biogeography, 2001‏ - Wiley Online Library
Studies of elevation clines in diversity and composition of ecological communities date back
to the origins of biogeography. A modern resurgence of interests in these elevational clines …

Mammal population losses and the extinction crisis

G Ceballos, PR Ehrlich - Science, 2002‏ - science.org
The disappearance of populations is a prelude to species extinction. No geographically
explicit estimates have been made of current population losses of major indicator taxa. Here …

[ספר][B] Wildlife ecology, conservation, and management

JM Fryxell, ARE Sinclair, G Caughley - 2014‏ - books.google.com
To understand modern principles of sustainable management and the conservation of
wildlife species requires intimate knowledge about demography, animal behavior, and …

The 'abundant centre'distribution: to what extent is it a biogeographical rule?

RD Sagarin, SD Gaines - Ecology letters, 2002‏ - Wiley Online Library
Several ecological and evolutionary hypotheses are based on the assumption that species
reach their highest abundance in the centre of their range and decline in abundance toward …

Range contractions of North American carnivores and ungulates

AS Laliberte, WJ Ripple - BioScience, 2004‏ - academic.oup.com
We compared the historic and current geographical ranges of 43 North American carnivores
and ungulates to identify large-scale patterns in range contractions and expansions …

Primate conservation biology

G Cowlishaw, R Dunbar - 2021‏ - books.google.com
From the snub-nosed monkeys of China to the mountain gorillas of central Africa, our closest
nonhuman relatives are in critical danger worldwide. A recent report, for example, warns that …