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The oceans cover over 70% of our planet. They are host to a
biodiversity of tremendous wealth. Its preservation is now a global
priority featuring in several international conventions and a
confirmed objective of European policies and national strategies.
Understanding the dynamics and the uses of the marine biodiversity
is a genuine scientific challenge. Fourteen international experts
have got together and identified five priority research themes to
address the problem, based on analysing the state of knowledge.
It is becoming clear that the Mediterranean region is one of the
"hottest" of the biodiversity hotspots on the planet. There is also
an increasing concern for the conservation, adaptive management,
and restoration of the unique natural ecosystems and cultural
landscapes that characterize this area. The region's biological and
cultural heritage as well as its huge wealth of biodiversity is now
at real risk. This brings a further urgency to the task of
communicating detailed but readily accessible information on the
Mediterranean biota, and an ecological, historical and evolutionary
perspective to the changing contexts in which the region's flora
and fauna continue to evolve.
There is no other recent textbook devoted solely to Mediterranean
evolutionary ecology, and a synthesis of the many recent advances
is now overdue. This new work builds on the success and reputation
of the first edition, although the text has been updated and
expanded to document recent changes to biodiversity, new ecological
and evolutionary insights, and the challenges for the future. These
changes include the addition of two new chapters devoted to the
Mediterranean Sea itself, and especially the coastal areas.
Throughout the book, the pressing issues of global change
(especially climate warming) are addressed, in conjunction with
changing land use, and in terms of their potential impact on biota,
communities, ecosystems, and landscapes.
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