Ecology of a Changed World 1st Edition

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Product details:

• ISBN-10: 0197564194
• ISBN-13: 9780197564196
• Author: Trevor Price

An increasing amount of usable space on our planet is crowded by humans. Whether we are using the space for permanent homes, vacation homes, travel accommodations, farming, public recreation, transportation, or office buildings, our chronic overuse of Earth’s resources is pushing our ecosystem into uncharted territories. This has spurred many species extinctions, and we can expect the losses to continue to grow. Ecology of a Changed World outlines the importance of species conservation relative to human existence. 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. Ecologist Trevor Price begins the book by breaking down population growth, food webs, species interaction, and other ecological principles. He draws on examples from agriculture, disease, fisheries, and societal growth throughout each chapter, offering insight into the relationships between demographic transitions, monetary exchanges, and ecosystems. Price focuses on six threats to biodiversity–climate change, overharvesting, pollution, habitat loss, invasive species, and disease–and offers the history, current status, and economic as well as environmental impacts of each of these. He ends the book with a rigorous review of the importance of species diversity, outlining the ways losses to our ecosystem will be a detriment to public health and global wealth. Taking readers through competition, predation, and parasitism, Ecology of a Changed World helpfully traces what has occurred on our planet throughout history, why these things happened, and how we can use this information to determine and shape our future.

Table contents:

1. The Changed World
Part 1. The rise and fall of populations
2. Population Growth
3. Population Regulation
4. Interactions between Species: Mutualisms and Competition
5. Predation and Food Webs
6. Parasites and Pathogens
7. Evolution and Disease
8. The Human Food Supply: Competition, Predation, and Parasitism
9. Food Security
Part 2. The threats to biodiversity
10. Prediction
11. Human Population Growth
12. Growth of Wealth and Urbanization
13. Habitat Conversion
14. Economics of Habitat Conversion
15. Climate Crisis: History
16. Predictions of Future Climate and its effects
17. Pollution
18. Invasive Species
19. Introduced Disease
20. Harvesting on Land
21. Harvesting in the Ocean
22. Harvesting: Prospects
Part 3. Averting Extinctions
23. Species
24. Population Declines
25. Extinction
26. Species across Space
27. Island Biogeography and Reserve Design
28. The Value of Species

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