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Landscape Disturbance and Biodiversity in Mediterranean
. Ed(S): Rundel, Philip W.; Montenegro, Gloria; Jaksic, Fabian M.
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Hardback. Human impacts on natural landscapes through urbanization and agricultural expansions are becoming more and more dramatic. This text examines the impact of human landscape disturbance on plant and animal diversity in the five Mediterranean-climate regions. Editor(s): Rundel, Philip W.; Montenegro, Gloria; Jaksic, Fabian M. Series: Ecological Studies. Num Pages: 451 pages, 107 black & white illustrations, 5 colour illustrations, 56 black & white tables, biograp. BIC Classification: 1QSM; PSTS; PSVS; RNP; TQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 971.
Human impact on natural landscapes through urbanization and agricultural expansion are becoming more and more dramatic and are the cause of serious environmental problems. This volume examines the effect of landscape disturbance on plant and animal diversity in the five mediterranean-climate regions of the world. It begins with three introductory chapters broadly reviewing the issues of landscape degradation. Further contributions describe regional land use conflicts in each of the five regions. Landscape disturbance and plant diversity, and landscape disturbance and animal diversity are treated in separate chapters. Four contributions deal with demography and ecophysiology in vegetation succession following disturbance. The ... Read more
Human impact on natural landscapes through urbanization and agricultural expansion are becoming more and more dramatic and are the cause of serious environmental problems. This volume examines the effect of landscape disturbance on plant and animal diversity in the five mediterranean-climate regions of the world. It begins with three introductory chapters broadly reviewing the issues of landscape degradation. Further contributions describe regional land use conflicts in each of the five regions. Landscape disturbance and plant diversity, and landscape disturbance and animal diversity are treated in separate chapters. Four contributions deal with demography and ecophysiology in vegetation succession following disturbance. The ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
451
Condition
New
Series
Ecological Studies
Number of Pages
451
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783540644750
SKU
V9783540644750
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