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Walker, Lawrence R.

The Biology of Disturbed Habitats. 2011. (Biology of Habitats). illus. photogr. XIII, 319 p. gr8vo. Paper bd.

Also available as a hardcover.-This book provides the first global synthesis of the biologyof disturbed habitats and offers readers both the conceptual underpinnings and practical advice required to comprehend and address the unprecedented environmental challenges facing humans. Every habitat on earth has been impacted by natural disturbances such as volcanoes, earthquakes, landslides, fires, floods, and droughts. Humans have contributed many additional disturbances such as mining, urbanization, forestry, agriculture, fishing, and recreation. These anthropogenic disturbances modify and often exacerbate the effects of the natural disturbances. Together, they result in the abrupt loss of biomass or ecosystem structure and function to create denuded surfaces where novel mixtures of native and non-native microbes, plants, and animals establish, grow, and die. The book examines both natural and anthropogenic disturbances in aquatic and terrestrial habitats. It explores how nutrients and productivity are altered in the disturbed habitats, the effects of disturbance on biodiversity, and the spatial and temporal dynamics of organisms that colonize disturbed habitats. This book alsoaddresses how to manage disturbances through appropriate conservation and restoration measures, and discusses how climate change and overpopulation now represent the most challenging disturbances at a global scale.
Author Walker, Lawrence R.
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Author Walker, Lawrence R.
Page image Walker, Lawrence R.: The Biology of Disturbed Habitats. 2011. (Biology of Habitats). illus. photogr. XIII, 319 p. gr8vo. Paper bd. (100910) 49.22
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