Changing ecosystems and their services
Hufnagel, L. (Ed.) (2019). Changing ecosystems and their services. IntechOpen: London. ISBN 978-1-83880-118-2.
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- Adjoa Mitchell, S.; A. Kitson-Walters, K.; Anna Mitchell, A. (2019). Valuing Caribbean biodiversity knowledge, in: Hufnagel, L. (Ed.) Changing ecosystems and their services. pp. [1-33]. https://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.89016, more
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| Abstract |
This edited book titled “Changing Ecosystems and their Services” is about the spatial and temporal modification patterns of natural and human influenced ecosystems, communities, and species assemblages from the pure and applied ecological viewpoints. Ecosystem services have extraordinary importance for a sustainable society as well as terrestrial and aquatic habitats, agricultural, forestry or protected areas, marine or freshwater ecosystems, wetlands. The spatial changes are in strict relation with biogeographical and community patterns, area-dynamics and borders or ecoclines of bioregions and bioms. By the recent century, mankind has fallen into a global ecological crisis, which endanger not only its welfare, peace and development but its mere existence as well. Overpopulation is the primary cause of many other global problems. Biodiversity crisis, mass extinction and the reduction of habitats, with land cover changes, and climate change induce each other in a positive feedback loop, since through the biosphere, climate regulating ecosystem services are weakened. The aim of our book-project is to give an extensive report from the frontiers of multidisciplinary ecosystem research about these interesting temporal-spatial patterns. |
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