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Our dying planet : an ecologist's view of the crisis we face /
Coral reefs are on track to become the first ecosystem actually eliminated from the planet. So says leading ecologist Peter F. Sale in this crash course on the state of the planet. Sale draws from his own extensive work on coral reefs, and from recent research by other ecologists, to explore the man...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2011.
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| Colección: | Stephen Bechtel Fund imprint in ecology and the environment.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Information : what we are doing to our world: Overfishing ; Removing forests ; Disrupting the ocean-atmosphere engine ; The perilous future for coral reefs
- Understanding : why we don't comprehend the scale of our problem: The problem of shifting baselines ; Our unrealistic belief in the balance of nature
- Moving forward : why it matters and what we need to do: What loss of ecological complexity means for the world ; Reducing our use of fossil fuels ; Slowing growth of the hum.