Sources, Sinks and Sustainability

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.

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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