Biodiversity Under Threat

In this book the editors have provided a broad view of the many pressures imposed by human-induced changes and the many threats to global biodiversity and of the policy responses required to combat them, There is much public concern about threats to global biodiversity. Industrial pollution, changes...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hester, R E
Other Authors: Harrison, R M, Parr, Terence W, Bredemeier, Michael
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Royal Society of Chemistry 2007
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Collection: RSC eBook Collection 1968-2009 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Impacts of agricultural change on farmland biodiversity in the UK
  • The extent and future of global insect biodiversity
  • Biological invasions in Europe: drivers, pressures, states, impacts and responses
  • The deep-sea: if we do not understand the biodiversity, can we assess the threat?
  • Threatened habitats: marginal vegetation in upland areas
  • Trends in biodiversity in Europe and the impact of land-use change
  • Tropical moist forests
  • The implementation of international biodiversity initiatives: constraints and successes
  • Biodiversity assessment and change - the challenge of appropriate methods
  • Drivers and pressures on biodiversity in analytical frameworks