Biodiversity and Environmental Change - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Biodiversity and Environmental Change write by Emma Burns. This book was released on 2014-02-06. Biodiversity and Environmental Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This data-rich book demonstrates the value of existing national long-term ecological research in Australia for monitoring environmental change and biodiversity. Long-term ecological data are critical for informing trends in biodiversity and environmental change. The Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) is a major initiative of the Australian Government and one of its key areas of investment is to provide funding for a network of long-term ecological research plots around Australia (LTERN). LTERN researchers and other authors in this book have maintained monitoring sites, often for one or more decades, in an array of different ecosystems across the Australian continent – ranging from tropical rainforests, wet eucalypt forests and alpine regions through to rangelands and deserts. This book highlights some of the temporal changes in the environment that have occurred in the various systems in which dedicated field-based ecologists have worked. Many important trends and changes are documented and they often provide new insights that were previously poorly understood or unknown. These data are precisely the kinds of data so desperately needed to better quantify the temporal trajectories in the environment in Australia. By presenting trend patterns (and often also the associated data) the authors aim to catalyse governments and other organisations to better recognise the importance of long-term data collection and monitoring as a fundamental part of ecologically-effective and cost-effective management of the environment and biodiversity.
Biodiversity and Climate Change
Biodiversity and Climate Change - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Biodiversity and Climate Change write by Thomas E. Lovejoy. This book was released on 2019-01-01. Biodiversity and Climate Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An essential, up-to-date look at the critical interactions between biological diversity and climate change that will serve as an immediate call to action The physical and biological impacts of climate change are dramatic and broad-ranging. People who care about the planet and manage natural resources urgently need a synthesis of our rapidly growing understanding of these issues. In this all-new sequel to the 2005 volume Climate Change and Biodiversity, leading experts in the field summarize observed changes, assess what the future holds, and offer suggested responses. From extinction risk to ocean acidification, from the future of the Amazon to changes in ecosystem services, and from geoengineering to the power of ecosystem restoration, this book captures the sweep of climate change transformation of the biosphere.
Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change
Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change write by Melissa R. Marselle. This book was released on 2019-06-11. Biodiversity and Health in the Face of Climate Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This open access book identifies and discusses biodiversity’s contribution to physical, mental and spiritual health and wellbeing. Furthermore, the book identifies the implications of this relationship for nature conservation, public health, landscape architecture and urban planning – and considers the opportunities of nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation. This transdisciplinary book will attract a wide audience interested in biodiversity, ecology, resource management, public health, psychology, urban planning, and landscape architecture. The emphasis is on multiple human health benefits from biodiversity - in particular with respect to the increasing challenge of climate change. This makes the book unique to other books that focus either on biodiversity and physical health or natural environments and mental wellbeing. The book is written as a definitive ‘go-to’ book for those who are new to the field of biodiversity and health.
Global Biodiversity in a Changing Environment
Global Biodiversity in a Changing Environment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Global Biodiversity in a Changing Environment write by Osvaldo E. Sala. This book was released on 2001-08-24. Global Biodiversity in a Changing Environment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Climatic change, conservation biology
Conservation Biogeography
Conservation Biogeography - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conservation Biogeography write by Richard J. Ladle. This book was released on 2011-01-11. Conservation Biogeography available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. CONSERVATION BIOGEOGRAPHY The Earth’s ecosystems are in the midst of an unprecedented period of change as a result of human action. Many habitats have been completely destroyed or divided into tiny fragments, others have been transformed through the introduction of new species, or the extinction of native plants and animals, while anthropogenic climate change now threatens to completely redraw the geographic map of life on this planet. The urgent need to understand and prescribe solutions to this complicated and interlinked set of pressing conservation issues has lead to the transformation of the venerable academic discipline of biogeography – the study of the geographic distribution of animals and plants. The newly emerged sub-discipline of conservation biogeography uses the conceptual tools and methods of biogeography to address real world conservation problems and to provide predictions about the fate of key species and ecosystems over the next century. This book provides the first comprehensive review of the field in a series of closely interlinked chapters addressing the central issues within this exciting and important subject.
