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Aquatic ecosystems : trends and global prospects /
Concern about future supplies of fresh water to society, to meet the full range of human needs, now comes very high on the priority list of global societal issues. An overarching issue, which this book addresses, is whether global climate change is a dominant driver of change in the structure and fu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: climate, people, fisheries and aquatic ecosystems / Robert Engelman [and others]
- Prospects for streams and rivers: an ecological perspective / Björn Malmqvist [and others]
- Groundwater ecosystems: human impacts and future management / Janine Gibert [and others]
- Flood plains: critically threatened ecosystems / Klement Tockner [and others]
- The future of small lakes and ponds / Brian Moss [and others]
- Environmental trends and potential future states of large freshwater lakes / Alfred M. Beeton, Robert E. Hecky and Kenton M. Stewart
- Salt lakes: values, threats and future / Robert Jellison [and others]
- The future of cool temperate peatlands / Nils Malmer, Peter D. Moore and Michael C.F. Proctor
- Temperate freshwater wetlands: response to gradients in moisture regime, human alterations and economic status / Mark M. Brinson [and others]
- Present state and future of tropical wetlands / Brij Gopal
- Saltmarsh / Paul Adam [and others]
- Future of mangrove ecosystems to 2025 / Richard S. Dodd and Jin E. Ong
- Environmental future of estuaries / Michael J. Kennish [and others]
- Rocky intertidal shores: prognosis for the future / George M. Branch [and others]
- Current status and future trends in kelp forest ecosystems / Robert S. Steneck
- Projecting the current trajectory for coral reefs / Tim E. McClanahan [and others]
- Sandy shores of the near future / Alexander C. Brown [and others]
- Seagrass ecosystems: their global status and prospects / Carlos M. Duarte [and others]
- Continental-shelf benthic ecosystems: prospects for an improved environmental future / Stephen J. Hall, Stuart I. Rogers and Simon F. Thrush
- The marine pelagic ecosystem: perspectives and humanity's role in the future / Peter G. Verity [and others]
- Polar and ice-edge marine systems / Andrew Clarke [and others]
- The near future of the deep-sea floor ecosystems / Craig R. Smith [and others]
- Trends and global prospects of the Earth's aquatic ecosystems / Nicholas V.C. Polunin.