ISBN:
9780511529917
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xiv, 530 pages)
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DDC:
304.2
Keywords:
Human ecology / Congresses
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Biotic communities / Congresses
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Ökologie
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Ökosystem
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Biozönose
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Umweltschaden
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Konferenzschrift
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Konferenzschrift
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Ökosystem
;
Umweltschaden
;
Biozönose
;
Umweltschaden
;
Ökologie
Abstract:
Life occurs, as far as we know, only as part of the earthly biosphere. Yet the earth's biotic resources are experiencing a spreading crisis that is leading not only to the most rapid loss of species in the last 65 million years, but also causing abrupt changes in the structure and function of natural communities. This disturbance, unfortunately, is the result of human carelessness in the name of advancing civilisation. As our technologies and societies continue to improve and grow, we remove ourselves more and more from our natural habitat; as a consequence, we destroy countless numbers of species of every style and complexity. To identify and begin rectifying this dangerous situation, a group of outstanding environmental scientists has compiled a collection of case studies that illustrate the changes being wrought on the biosphere by the human presence
Description / Table of Contents:
The earth under stress : a transition to climatic instability raises questions about patterns of impoverishment / George M. Woodwell -- The experimental impoverishment of natural communities : effects of ionizing radiation on plant communities, 1961-1976 / George M. Woodwell and Richard A. Houghton -- Air pollution and temperate forests : creeping degradation / F. Herbert Bormann -- The long-term effects of air pollutants on lichen communities in Europe and North America / D.L. Hawksworth -- Biotic impoverishment in Northern peatlands / Eville Gorham -- Climatic change and the survival of forest species / Margaret Bryan Davis -- The atmosphere and the future of the biosphere : points of interactive disturbance / Michael Oppenheimer
Description / Table of Contents:
The restoration of Nonsuch Island as a living museum of Bermuda's precolonial terrestrial biome / David B. Wingate -- Patterns of impoverishment in natural communities : case history studies in forest ecosystems : New Zealand / A.F. Mark and G.D. McSweeney -- Changes in the eucalypt forests of Australia as a result of human disturbance / R.L. Specht -- Impoverishment in Pacific Island forests / Dieter Mueller-Dombois -- Deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia / Philip M. Fearnside -- Incentives for sustainable forest management / Robert Repetto -- Changes in the Mediterranean vegetation of Israel in response to human habitation and land use / Zev Naveh and Pua Kutiel
Description / Table of Contents:
Bromus tectorum, a biotic cause of ecosystem impoverishment in the Great Basin / W.D. Billings -- Detecting early signs of regional air-pollution injury to coastal sage scrub / Walter E. Westman -- Arctic ecosystems : patterns of change in response to disturbance / L.C. Bliss -- Changes in a Red Sea coral community structure : a long-term case history study / Y. Loya -- Are deep-sea communities resilient? / J. Frederick Grassle, Nancy J. Maciolek, and James A. Blake -- Species dominance : diversity patterns in oceanic communities / John A. McGowan -- Natural and anthropogenically imposed limitations to biotic richness in fresh waters / David W. Schindler -- Human impacts on the South Florida wetlands : the Everglades and Big Cypress Swamp / William A. Niering
Description / Table of Contents:
The impoverishment of aquatic communities by smelter activities near Sudbury, Canada / N.D. Yan and P.M. Welbourn -- Biotic impoverishment : effects of anthropogenic stress / John Cairns, Jr., and James R. Pratt -- Steps toward sustainability / J. Gustave Speth -- A reaction from a multitude / Donella H. Meadows
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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511529917
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https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511529917
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