Description: 1: Understand Diversity.- 1. Biodiversity and Stability in Grasslands.- 2. Biological Diversity: Where Is It?.- 3. Neotropical Mammals and the Myth of Amazonian Biodiversity.- 4. Conservation of Stream Fishes: Patterns of Diversity, Rarity, and Risk.- 5. Scale Perspectives on Avian Diversity in Western Riparian Ecosystems.- 6. Beyond "Hotspots": How to Prioritize Investments to Conserve Biodiversity in the Indo-Pacific Region.- 7. Avian Community Dynamics are Discordant in Space and Time.- 8. Identifying Extinction Threats: Global Analyses of the Distribution of Biodiversity and the Expansion of the Human Enterprise.- 2: Restore Ecological Processes.- 9. The Preservation of Process: The Missing Element of Conservation Programs.- 10. Disturbance and Population Structure on the Shifting Mosaic Landscape.- 11. Fire Frequency and Community Heterogeneity in Tallgrass Prairie Vegetation.- 12. Management Practices in Tallgrass Prairie: Large- and Small-Scale Experimental Effects on Species Composition.- 13. Fire History and Vegetation Dynamics of a Chamaecyparis Thyoides Wetland on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.- 14. Organisms as Ecosystem Engineers.- 15. Modeling Complex Ecological Economic Systems: Toward an Evolutionary, Dynamic Understanding of People and Nature.- 16. Disturbance, Diversity, and Invasion: Implications for Conservation.- 3: Emphasize Biotic Integrity.- 17. Biological Invasions and Ecosystem Processes: Towards an Integration of Population Biology and Ecosystem Studies.- 18. No Park Is an Island: Increase in Interference from Outside as Park Size Decreases.- 19. Community-Wide Consequences of Trout Introduction in New Zealand Streams.- 20. Variation Among Desert Topminnows in Their Susceptibility to Attack by Exotic Parasites.- 21. A Test of the VegetationMosaic Hypothesis: A Hypothesis to Explain the Decline and Extinction of Australian Mammals.- 22. Fish Assemblage Recovery Along a Riverine Disturbance Gradient.- 23. Plant Invasions and the Role of Riparian Habitats: A Comparison of Four Species Alien to Central Europe.- 24. Biological Integrity Versus Biological Diversity as Policy Directives: Protecting Biotic Resources.- 4: Promote Ecological Sustainability.- 25. Great Ideas in Ecology for the 1990s.- 26. Can Extractive Reserves Save the Rain Forest? An Ecological and Socioeconomic Comparison of Nontimber Forest Product Extraction Systems in Petn, Guatemala, and West Kalimantan, Indonesia.- 27. Sustainable Use of the Tropical Rain Forest: Evidence from the Avifauna in a Shifting-Cultivation Habitat Mosaic in the Colombian Amazon.- 28. The Effects of Management Systems on Ground-Foraging Ant Diversity in Costa Rica.- 29. An Approach for Managing Vertebrate Diversity Across Multiple-Use Landscapes.- 30. Cross-Scale Morphology, Geometry, and Dynamics of Ecosystems.- 31. Scale and Biodiversity Policy: A Hierarchical Approach.- 32. Population, Sustainability, and Earth's Carrying Capacity.- 33. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function.

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