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The Biology of Disturbed Habitats (Hardcover)
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The Biology of Disturbed Habitats (Hardcover)
Series: Biology of Habitats Series
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This book provides the first global synthesis of the biology of
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 Biology of Disturbed Habitats 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 also addresses 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.
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