Ecological Challenges and Conservation Conundrums: Essays and Reflections for a Changing World

Machine Generated Contents Note: Essay 1 How Did I Get Here? -- Essay 2 Found! The Survivor In The Swamps (2005) -- Essay 3 In Defense Of Footnotes (2014) -- Pt. I Change, The Challenge -- Ch. 1 Conservation And Change -- Ch. 2 Digression On Paradigms -- Essay 4 Power Of Paradigms (2014) -- Essay 5 Patterns, Paradigms, And Preconceptions (2013) -- Essay 6 Fat Times, Lean Times, And Competition Among Predators (1993) -- Ch. 3 Equilibrium, Stability, And Change -- Essay 7 From Our Southern Correspondent(s) (2011) -- Essay 8 Boom And Bust: Lessons From The Outback (2014) -- Ch. 4 Digression On Disturbance -- Essay 9 Oil, Oil, Everywhere ... (2010) -- Pt. Ii Forces Of Change -- Ch. 5 Climate Change And Sea-level Rise -- Essay 10 Polar Bears, Golden Toads, And Conservation Futures (2008) -- Ch. 6 Land-use Change -- Essay 11 Will Land-use Change Erode Our Conservation Gains? (2007) -- Essay 12 Landscape Ecology: The Science And The Action (1999) -- Ch. 7 Distributional Changes: Invasive Species -- Ch. 8 Societal, Cultural, And Political Change -- Essay 13 Wildlife, People, And Water: Who Wins? (2012) -- Ch. 9 Population Growth -- Ch. 10 Linkages Among Changes -- Pt. Iii Conservation Conundrums -- Ch. 11 Variation And History -- Essay 14 Eclipse Of History? (2008) -- Essay 15 From Our Southern Correspondent(s): Which History? (2013) -- Ch. 12 Digression On Baselines And Targets -- Essay 16 Shooting At A Moving Target (2011) -- Ch. 13 Ecological Thresholds -- Essay 17 Tipping Points In The Balance Of Nature (2010) -- Ch. 14 Ecological Resilience -- Ch. 15 Dealing With Novelty -- Essay 18 Black Swans And Outliers (2012) -- Essay 19 Moving Outside The Box (2009) -- Ch. 16 Uncertainty: A Boon Or A Bane? -- Essay 20 Taking Risks With The Environment (2012) -- Essay 21 Uncertainty And The Relevance Of Ecology (2008) -- Ch. 17 Prioritization And Triage -- Essay 22 Talking About Triage In Conservation (2015) -- Ch. 18 Protected Areas: Where The Wild Things Are -- Essay 23 Build It And They Will Come (2013) -- Essay 24 Dangers Of Black-and-white Conservation (2007) -- Ch. 19 Ecosystem Services And The Value Of Nature -- Essay 25 What's So New About Ecosystem Services? (2007) -- Pt. Iv Doing Conservation -- Ch. 20 What Is It We Are Trying To Conserve? -- Essay 26 Be Careful What You Wish For (2014) -- Essay 27 Concluding Comments: Are Bird Communities Real? (1980) -- Essay 28 Metaphor Meets An Abstraction: The Issue Of Healthy Ecosystems (2015) -- Ch. 21 Numbers, Numbers, Numbers -- Essay 29 Is Monitoring A Dirty Word? (2009) -- Essay 30 Place Of Long-term Studies In Ornithology (1984) -- Essay 31 What Use Is Small Data In A Big Data World? (2013) -- Ch. 22 Digression On Words -- Essay 32 Word Processing Versus Writing (1983, 2011) -- Ch. 23 Debates In Ecology And Conservation -- Essay 33 On Skepticism And Criticism In Ornithology (1981) -- Essay 34 Demise Of Wildness? (2007) -- Ch. 24 What Lies Behind The Debates? Philosophy, Values, And Ethics -- Ch. 25 Digression On Advocacy In Conservation -- Essay 35 Scientific Responsibility And Responsible Ecology (1997) -- Pt. V Concluding Comments -- Ch. 26 Whither Ecology And Conservation In A Changing World? -- Essay 36 It Was The Best Of Times, It Was The Worst Of Times... (2009) -- Essay 37 Being Green Isn't Easy (2010) -- Essay 38 Stewart Udall And The Future Of Conservation (2010). John A. Wiens. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.