Biodiversity Under ThreatThere is much public concern about threats to global biodiversity. Industrial pollution, changes in agricultural practices and climate change, are all having a direct impact on biodiversity. In this book the Editors provide a broad view of the many pressures imposed by human-induced changes and the many threats to global biodiversity and of the policy responses required to combat them. This excellent text includes the work of some 44 authors and offers a solid description of the current understanding of threats to biodiversity with a range of illustrative examples - a valuable point of reference for ecologists, environmental scientists, and students as well as, policymakers and all other environmental professionals. |
Contents
Impacts of Agricultural Change on Farmland Biodiversity in the | 1 |
Pelagos | 5 |
97 | 13 |
Recent Changes in Agricultural Practices | 14 |
Contents | 33 |
Landuse Change | 40 |
Invasive Species | 46 |
113 | 49 |
Biodiversity and Landuse Change | 151 |
Tropical Moist Forests | 161 |
Reasons for Localscale Variation due to Presentday Ecology | 173 |
The Future | 183 |
Constraints | 193 |
When Implementation is Being Constrained | 201 |
Mediation to Help Reach Effectiveness and Legitimacy | 208 |
Contents | 213 |
Drivers Pressures States Impacts | 56 |
Propagules | 62 |
a European | 72 |
Acknowledgements | 78 |
7 | 84 |
Managing Biodiversity in Marginal Habitats | 122 |
Acknowledgements | 128 |
Contents | 135 |
Current and Future Threats | 144 |
Biodiversity Assessment and Change the Challenge of Appropriate | 217 |
Surrogate Measures Indicators and Indices | 221 |
Indicators of Biodiversity and its Change for the Wider | 237 |
Conclusions | 246 |
Drivers and Pressures on Biodiversity in Analytical | 252 |
Acknowledgements | 261 |
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Biodiversity Under Threat Issues In Environmental Science And Technology Harrison,R.M. No preview available - 2007 |
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