Sources, Sinks and Sustainability

by Edited by Jianguo Liu , Vanessa Hull , Anita T. Morzillo , John A. Wiens

• ISBN13: 9780521199476
• ISBN10: 0521199476
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781139124584
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-08-08
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Summary

Source-sink theories provide a simple yet powerful framework for understanding how the patterns, processes and dynamics of ecological systems vary and interact over space and time. Integrating multiple research fields, including population biology and landscape ecology, this book presents the latest advances in source-sink theories, methods and applications in the conservation and management of natural resources and biodiversity. The interdisciplinary team of authors uses detailed case studies, innovative field experiments and modeling, and comprehensive syntheses to incorporate source-sink ideas into research and management, and explores how sustainability can be achieved in today's increasingly fragile human-dominated ecosystems. Providing a comprehensive picture of source-sink research as well as tangible applications to real world conservation issues, this book is ideal for graduate students, researchers, natural-resource managers and policy makers.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of contributors

Introduction:

Impact of a classic paper by H. Ronald Pulliam: the first 20 years Vanessa Hull, Anita

Advances in Source-Sink Theory:

Evolution in source-sink environments: implications for niche conservatism

Source-sink dynamics emerging from unstable ideal-free habitat selection

Sources and sinks in the evolution and persistence of mutualisms

Effects of climate change on dynamics and stability of multiregional populations

Habitat quality, niche breadth, temporal stochasticity, and the persistence of populations in heterogeneous landscapes

When sinks rescue sources in dynamic environments

Sinks, sustainability, and conservation incentives

Progress in Source-Sink Methodology:

On estimating demographic and dispersal parameters for niche and source-sink models

Source-sink status of small and large wetland fragments and growth rate of a population network

Demographic and dispersal data from anthropogenic grasslands: what should we measure?

Network analysis: a tool for studying the connectivity of source-sink systems

Sources, sinks, and model accuracy

Scale-dependence of habitat sources and sinks Jeffrey

Effects of experimental population removal for the spatial population ecology of the alpine butterfly, Parnassius smintheus Stephen

Improvement of Source-Sink Management:

Contribution of source-sink theory to protected area science

Evidence of source-sink dynamics in marine and estuarine species

Population networks with sources and sinks along productivity gradients in the Fiordland Marine Area, New Zealand: a case study on the sea urchin Evechinus chloroticus

Source-sinks, metapopulations, and forest reserves: conserving northern flying squirrels in the temperate rainforests of Southeast Alaska

Does habitat fragmentation generate breeding sources, sinks, and ecological traps in migratory songbirds?

Source-sink population dynamics and sustainable leaf harvest of the understory palm Chamaedorea radicalis

Assessing positive and negative ecological effects of corridors

Synthesis:

Sources and sinks: what is the reality?

Index

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