Recombinant ecology -- a hybrid future?
This book addresses critical issues of changing ecology and ecosystems consequent on urbanisation, globalisation, climate change, and human cultural influences. Human-induced and natural climate changes and globalisation accelerate hybridisation; anthropogenic influences causing disturbance, nutrien...
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Format | Electronic eBook |
Language | English |
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Springer,
2017.
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Series | SpringerBriefs in ecology.
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Online Access | Plný text |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Reference; Contents; 1 An Introduction to the Concept of Recombinant Ecology; Global Ecological Crisis; Setting the Scene-Ecological History, Aliens, Exotics and Invasives; Setting the Scene-Ideas of Recombinant Ecology; Novel Ecosystems and Recombinant Communities; Novelty and Recombinance; Eco-Fusion; Examples of Recombinant Ecologies; Urban Riverside Vegetation; Urban Commons 'Meadows'; Urban Water-Bodies; Urban Woodlands; Plantation Forests; References; 2 An Historical Perspective of Ecological Hybridisation.
- The Cultural Facilitation of Ecological InvasionHybrid Ecologies; Examples of the Historic Cultural Drivers of Recombination; References; 3 The Impacts of Urbanisation; Urbanisation and Recombinant Ecology; Urban Centres and Novel Ecologies; Ecological Strategies and Urban Recombinants; Polluting the Air; Polluting the Waters and the Land; References; 4 The Impacts of Globalisation and Cultural Severance; The Impacts of Cultural Severance; Global Empires, Acclimatisation and Wild Gardening; A History of Animal and Plant Importations; References; 5 Climate Change and Ecological Hybridisation.