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The Ecology of Tropical East Asia (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition)
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The Ecology of Tropical East Asia (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition)
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Tropical East Asia is home to over one billion people and faces
massive human impacts from its rising population and rapid economic
growth. It has already lost more than half of its forest cover to
agriculture and urbanization, and has the highest rates of
deforestation and logging in the tropics. Habitat loss, coupled
with hunting and the relentless trade in wildlife products,
threatens all its large and many of its smaller vertebrates.
Despite these problems, the region still supports an estimated
15-25% of global terrestrial biodiversity and a growing
environmental awareness means that it is no longer assumed that
economic development justifies environmental damage, and no longer
accepted that this trade-off is inevitable. Effective conservation
action now depends on integrating a clear understanding of the
ecological patterns and processes in the region with the varied
needs of its human population. This third edition continues to
provide an overview of the terrestrial ecology of Tropical East
Asia: from southern China to Indonesia, and from Bhutan and
Bangladesh to the Ryukyu Islands of Japan. It retains the balance
between compactness and comprehensiveness of the previous editions,
and the even-handed geographical treatment of the whole region, but
it updates both the contents and the perspective. Approximately one
third of the text is new or greatly modified, reflecting the
explosion of new research in the region in the last few years and
the increasing use of new tools, particularly from genomics and
remote sensing. The change in perspective largely reflects the
growing realization that we are in a new epoch, the Anthropocene,
in which human activities have at least as large an influence as
natural processes, and that stopping or reversing ecological change
is no longer an option. This does not mean that biodiversity
conservation is no longer possible or worthwhile, but that the
biodiverse future we strive for will inevitably be very different
from the past. The Ecology of Tropical East Asia is an advanced
textbook suitable for senior undergraduate and graduate level
students taking courses on the terrestrial ecology of the East
Asian tropics, as well as an authoritative regional reference for
professional ecologists, conservationists, and interested amateurs
worldwide.
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