The Carnivore Way Coexisting with and Conserving North America’s Predators /

• Main Author: Eisenberg, Cristina (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2014.
• Subjects: Environment.; Animal ecology.; Biodiversity.; Ecosystems.; Nature conservation.; Nature Conservation.; Animal Ecology.

What would it be like to live in a world with no predators roaming our landscapes? Would their elimination, which humans have sought with ever greater urgency in recent times, bring about a pastoral, peaceful human civilization? Or in fact is their existence critical to our own, and do we need to be...

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Journey into Wildness
• Part One: Wildways. Chapter One: Corridor Ecology and Large Carnivores
• Chapter Two: The Ecological Role of Large Carnivores
• Chapter Three: Crossings
• Part Two: Where the Carnivores Roam. Chapter Four: Grizzly Bear (Ursus arctos)
• Chapter Five: Wolf (Canis lupus)
• Chapter Six: Wolverine (Gulo gulo luscus)
• Chapter Seven: Lynx (Lynx canadensis)
• Chapter Eight: Cougar (Puma concolor)
• Chapter Nine: Jaguar (Panthera onca)
• Conclusion: Earth Household
• Notes
• Glossary
• About the Author
• Index.