Common and Scientific Names of Aquatic Invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Crustaceans. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, Volume 31. By Patsy A  McLaughlin and , David K  Camp et al. (Committee on the Names of Crustaceans of the United States and Canada of The Crustacean Society) and , Donna D  Turgeon (Nonindigenous and Endangered Species, NOAA, National Ocean Service). Bethesda (Maryland): American Fisheries Society. $60.00 (paper). xiii + 545 p; ill.; index. ISBN: 1–888569– 64–6. [CD‐ROM included.] 2005.

The United States Endangered Species Act is one of the strongest laws of any nation for preventing species extinction, but quantifying the Act’s effectiveness has proven difficult. To provide one measure of effectiveness, we identified listed species that have gone extinct and used previously developed methods to update an estimate of the number of species extinctions prevented by the Act. To date, only four species have been confirmed extinct with another 22 possibly extinct following protection. Another 71 listed species are extinct or possibly extinct, but were last seen before protections were enacted, meaning the Act’s protections never had the opportunity to save these species. In contrast, a total of 39 species have been fully recovered, including 23 in the last 10 years. We estimate the Endangered Species Act has prevented the extinction of roughly 291 species since passage in 1973, and has to date saved more than 99 percent of species under its protection.

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Common and Scientific Names of Aquatic Invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Cnidaria and Ctenophora 2nd Edition (CD only)

10.47886/9781888569391 ◽

2002 ◽

Author(s):

Stephen D. Cairns ◽

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Dale R. Calder ◽

Anita Brinckmann-Voss ◽

Clovis B. Castro ◽

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Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Aquatic Invertebrates ◽

The United States

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The Life of Learning ◽

10.1093/oso/9780195083392.003.0013 ◽

1994 ◽

Author(s):

D. W. Meinig

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Endangered Species ◽

Rare Species ◽

Good Deal ◽

The United States ◽

General Situation ◽

Migration History ◽

The University ◽

Local Reproduction ◽

Eastern Edge

Had the idea of such an invitation ever crossed my mind, I would have thought the chances of being asked to give the Haskins Lecture as a good deal less likely than being struck by lightning. I found it a stunning experience, and I cannot be sure that I have recovered sufficiently to deliver a coherent response. I can only assume that I was selected because I am one of a rare species in the United States—an historical humanistic geographer—and someone must have suggested it might be of interest to have a look at such a creature, see how he might describe himself and hear how he got into such an obscure profession. Geographers are an endangered species in America, as, alas, attested by their status on this very campus [the University of Chicago], where one of the oldest and greatest graduate departments, founded ninety years ago, has been reduced to some sort of committee, and the few remaining geographers live out their lives without hope of local reproduction. I shall have more to say about this general situation, for while I have never personally felt endangered, no American geographer can work unaware of the losses of positions we suffered over many years and of the latent dangers of sudden raids from preying administrators who see us as awkward and vulnerable misfits who can be culled from the expensive herds of academics they try to manage. I have always been a geographer, but it took me a while to learn that one could make a living at it. My career began when I first looked out upon a wider world from a farmhouse on a hill overlooking a small town on the eastern edge of Washington State. My arrival on this earth at that particular place was the result of the convergence (this is a geographer’s explanation of such an event) of two quite common strands of American migration history. My paternal grandparents emigrated from a village in Saxony to Iowa in 1880, following the path of some kin.

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