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9780199380213 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 1, 2016, cover price $69.95
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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9780199575299 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, February 20, 2012, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: 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.
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9780199575305 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 20, 2012, cover price $60.00
Product Description: This innovative book integrates practical information from restoration projects around the world with the latest developments in successional theory. It recognizes the critical roles of disturbance ecology, landscape ecology, ecological assembly, invasion biology, ecosystem health, and historical ecology in habitat restoration...read more
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9780387353029 | Springer Verlag, February 9, 2007, cover price $129.00 | About this edition: This innovative book integrates practical information from restoration projects around the world with the latest developments in successional theory.
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9781441922496 | Reprint edition (Springer Verlag, November 19, 2010), cover price $129.00 | About this edition: This innovative book integrates practical information from restoration projects around the world with the latest developments in successional theory.
Product Description: Natural disasters destroy more property and kill more people with each passing year. Volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, floods, landslides, fires and other natural events are becoming more frequent and their consequences more devastating...read more
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9780521860345 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, April 30, 2007), cover price $145.00 | About this edition: Natural disasters destroy more property and kill more people with each passing year.
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9780521677660 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, April 30, 2007), cover price $84.99 | About this edition: Natural disasters destroy more property and kill more people with each passing year.
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9780387296555 | Springer Verlag, June 1, 2006, cover price $259.00
Product Description: This volume provides the first comprehensive summary of how plant, animal, and microbial communities develop under the harsh conditions following dramatic natural disturbances. The authors examine the basic principles that determine ecosystem development and apply the general rules to the urgent practical need for promoting the reclamation of damaged lands...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780521800761 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 1, 2003, cover price $235.00 | About this edition: This volume provides the first comprehensive summary of how plant, animal, and microbial communities develop under the harsh conditions following dramatic natural disturbances.
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9780521529549 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 1, 2003, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: This volume provides the first comprehensive summary of how plant, animal, and microbial communities develop under the harsh conditions following dramatic natural disturbances.
Product Description: As the human population inexorably grows, its cumulative impact on the Earth's resources is hard to ignore. The ability of the Earth to support more humans is dependent on the ability of humans to manage natural resources wisely. Because disturbance alters resource levels, effective management requires understanding of the ecology of disturbance...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780444824202 | 1 edition (Elsevier Science Ltd, December 1, 1999), cover price $395.00 | About this edition: As the human population inexorably grows, its cumulative impact on the Earth's resources is hard to ignore.
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