Trevor Price

Ecology of a Changed World

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ecology of a Changed World outlines the importance of species conservation relative to human existence. Paired wiwth a useful companion website with engaging practical applications, the book breaks down ecological principles and explains six threats to biodiversity in terms anyone studying ecology, evolutionary biology, environmental science, or environmental justice will understand.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9780197564172
• ISBN-10: 0197564178
• Artikelnr.: 62478152

Autorenporträt

Trevor Price is Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago. He earned a PhD in ecology from the University of Michigan and spent seventeen years on the faculty at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Speciation in Birds (2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: The Changed World
Chapter 2: Population Growth
Chapter 3: Population Regulation
Chapter 4: Interactions between Species: Competition
Chapter 5: Predation and Food Webs
Chapter 6: Parasites and Pathogens
Chapter 7: Evolution and Disease
Chapter 8: The Human Food Supply: Competition, Predation, and Parasitism
Chapter 9: Food Security
Chapter 10: Prediction
Chapter 11: Human Population Growth
Chapter 12: Growth of Wealth and Urbanization
Chapter 13: Habitat Conversion
Chapter 14: Economics of Habitat Conversion
Chapter 15: Climate Crisis: History
Chapter 16: Predictions of Future Climate and Its Effects
Chapter 17: Pollution
Chapter 18: Invasive Species
Chapter 19: Introduced Disease
Chapter 20: Harvesting on Land
Chapter 21: Harvesting in the Ocean
Chapter 22: Harvesting: Prospects
Chapter 23: Species
Chapter 24: Population Declines
Chapter 25: Extinction
Chapter 26: Species across Space
Chapter 27: Island Biogeography and Reserve Design
Chapter 28: Value of Species
Appendix A: Estimation and Uncertainty
Appendix B: Derivations
References
Index