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In the last 10000 years human development of stone tools learning of food cultivation growth of civilizations and trade and migration among others have increasingly impinged on aquatic ecosystems. Of primary concern across all ecosystems are pollution flow modification water diversion invasive species introductions land-use changes over-harvesting and global climate change.
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Trends and global prospects of the Earths aquatic ecosystems Nicholas V. Polunin Brij Gopal Nicholas A. Graham Stephen Hall Venugopalan Ittekkot and Annette Mühlig-Hofmann.
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23 - Trends and global prospects of the Earths aquatic ecosystems. From PART VIII - SYNTHESIS. Polunin Brij Gopal Nicholas A.
Graham Stephen J. Hall Venugopalan Ittekkot Annette Mühlig-Hofmann. Edited by Nicholas V.
Polunin University of Newcastle upon Tyne. In a final chapter entitled Trends and global prospects of the Earths aquatic ecosystems Polunin and his co-authors synthesize the information presented earlier in the volume on trends and prognoses and draw broad conclusions about the threats and trajectories of the worlds aquatic ecosystems their overall structures and ecological functions. Trends and Global Prospects pp353-365 Chapter.
Trends and global prospects edited by Nicholas VC Polunin. BioScience publishes current research and issues in biology and includes content dedicated to policy education and professional development. Trends and global prospects 2008 ppxvi 482 pp.
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9780130879028 from Amazons Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. The Earths organisms have depended on water since they arose 35 billion years ago.
In the last 10000 years human development of stone tools learning of food cultivation growth of civilizations and trade and migration among others have increasingly impinged on aquatic ecosystems. During the last century the human population has tripled and water use for human purposes increased six-fold. Sorry we are unable to provide the full text but you may find it at the following locations.
Projected population and economic and advanced undergraduate students in a university growth in developing regions will undoubtedly cause course entitled Aquatic Ecosystem Conservation. More rapid environmental decline the abatement of The book achieves a truly global perspective with which is unlikely without considerable assistance from authors who originate from a diversity of. Threats to Earths aquatic systems.
Of primary concern across all ecosystems are pollution flow modification water diversion invasive species introductions land-use changes over-harvesting and global climate change. The authors highlight some crucial areas for further study including the synergistic effects of multiple threats. In press in Aquatic Ecosystems.
Trends and Global Prospects Polunin N ed Cambrige University Press zones may also foster relatively high biomass communities by enhancing bottom currents or by concentrating organic-matter flux Wishner et al 1990 Koslow 1997. Vetter. Smith.
Smith Demopoulos 2003. Ecosystems 334 CRAIG R. LEVIN ANTHONY KOSLOW PAUL A.
TYLER AND ADRIAN G. GLOVER PART VIII SYNTHESIS 23 Trends and global prospects of the Earths aquatic ecosystems 353 NICHOLAS V. POLUNIN BRIJ GOPAL NICHOLAS A.
HALL VENUGOPALAN ITTEKKOT AND ANNETTE MUHLIG-HOFMANN References Index 366 473. 30 June 2009 Nicholas V. Review of Aquatic ecosystems.
Trends and global prospects Cambridge University Press New York 482 pp 2008 ISBN 978-0-521-83327-1. Over the last two decades the loss of seagrass from direct and indirect human impacts amounts to 18 of the documented seagrass area Green Short 2003. Seagrass ecosystems are in need of active management to ensure their persistence and long-term survival requiring education increased awareness management and conservation on a global scale.
Globally between 20 and 35 of mangrove area has been lost since approximately 1980 24 26 27 and mangrove areas are disappearing at the rate of approximately 1 per year 26 27 with other estimates as high as 28 per year 28.