BOOK COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 THE PATHOLOGY OF EXTINCTION -- HOW MANY SPECIES ARE THERE? -- CALCULATING BACKGROUND EXTINCTION RATES -- RECENT EXTINCTION RATES -- PACIFIC ISLAND BIRDS -- FLOWERING PLANTS -- FRESHWATER MUSSELS AND CLAMS -- FRESHWATER FISH -- AUSTRALIAN MAMMALS -- CALCULATING THE RELATIVE RATES OF EXTINCTION -- PREDICTING THE FUTURE RATES OF EXTINCTION -- INEXORABLE SPECIES DECLINES -- SURVIVING BUT THREATENED SMALL POPULATIONS -- THE LOSS OF POPULATIONS -- THE LOSS OF ECOSYSTEMS -- CHAPTER 2 THE CAUSES OF EXTINCTION -- HABITAT LOSS -- EXTINCTION IN TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS -- EXTINCTION IN MARINE ENVIRONMENTS -- EXTINCTION IN FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENTS -- POLLUTION -- THE ROLE OF INTRODUCED SPECIES -- OVERHARVESTING -- WHALING -- FISHING -- LOGGING AND COLLECTING -- SECONDARY EXTINCTIONS -- GLOBAL CHANGE -- WHICH SPECIES ARE MOST VULNERABLE TO EXTINCTION? -- ENDEMISM AND RARITY -- BODY SIZE AND RELATED REPRODUCTIVE CHARACTERISTICS -- BEHAVIOUR -- INSULARITY -- HUMAN USE -- CHAPTER 3 PREVENTING THE LOSS OF BIODIVERSITY -- SPECIES INTERVENTIONS -- PROTECTIVE CUSTODY -- GENETIC INTERVENTION -- THE DIFFICULTIES AND COSTS OF INTERVENTION -- HABITAT PROTECTION -- HABITAT CONNECTIONS -- HABITAT MANAGEMENT -- FIRE CONTROL -- FLOOD CONTROL -- HABITAT RESTORATION -- PUTTING A PRICE ON CONSERVATION -- CHAPTER 4 ECOLOGY -- HISTORICAL BACKGROUND -- AREAS OF STUDY -- METHODS IN ECOLOGY -- POPULATION ECOLOGY -- GENETIC VARIATION WITHIN LOCAL POPULATIONS -- POPULATION DENSITY AND GROWTH -- THE REGULATION OF POPULATIONS -- CHAPTER 5 COMMUNITY ECOLOGY -- THE BIOTIC ELEMENTS OF COMMUNITIES -- TROPHIC PYRAMIDS AND THE FLOW OF ENERGY -- FOOD CHAINS AND FOOD WEBS -- KEYSTONE SPECIES -- GUILDS AND INTERACTION WEBS -- PATTERNS OF COMMUNITY STRUCTURE -- ECOLOGICAL SUCCESSION -- COMMUNITY STRATIFICATION AND GRADATION.

ECOTONES -- ECOLOGICAL NICHES -- BIODIVERSITY AND THE STABILITY OF COMMUNITIES -- THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN SPECIES AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION -- THE ROLE OF MUTUALISM -- ANTAGONISM -- COMPETITION -- COMMENSALISM AND OTHER TYPES OF INTERACTION -- THE COEVOLUTIONARY PROCESS -- THE STUDY OF COEVOLUTION -- THE COEVOLUTIONARY "ARMS RACE" VERSUS REDUCED ANTAGONISM -- COEVOLUTION AND THE ORGANIZATION OF COMMUNITIES -- GENE-FOR-GENE COEVOLUTION -- THE GEOGRAPHIC MOSAIC THEORY OF COEVOLUTION -- CHAPTER 6 DORMANCY -- THE CAUSES OF DORMANCY -- DORMANCY IN PROTOZOANS AND INVERTEBRATES -- CYSTS AND CYSTLIKE STRUCTURES -- DIAPAUSE IN INSECTS -- DORMANCY IN COLD-BLOODED VERTEBRATES -- FISHES AND AMPHIBIANS -- REPTILES -- DORMANCY, HIBERNATION, AND ESTIVATION IN WARM-BLOODED VERTEBRATES -- HIBERNATION IN BIRDS -- HIBERNATION IN MAMMALS -- PHYSIOLOGICAL CHANGES DURING MAMMALIAN HIBERNATION -- CHAPTER 7 NOTABLE FIGURES IN CONSERVATION -- RACHEL CARSON -- BARRY COMMONER -- PAUL R. EHRLICH -- AL GORE -- THEODORE JESSE HOOVER -- ALDO LEOPOLD -- JANE LUBCHENCO -- JOHN MUIR -- GIFFORD PINCHOT -- RAMAN SUKUMAR -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX: RELATED CONCEPTS IN CONSERVATION AND ECOLOGY -- AMENSALISM -- AUTECOLOGY -- CLIMAX COMMUNITY -- EARTH DAY -- FIRE STORM -- FOOD CHAIN -- FOREST FIRE -- INDICATOR SPECIES -- NATIONAL PARK -- NATURE RESERVE -- SYSTEMS ECOLOGY -- WILDLAND FIRE -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CONSERVATION -- ECOLOGY -- COMMUNITY ECOLOGY -- DORMANCY -- INDEX.