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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Price, Trevor (1953-....)
Titre(s) : Ecology of a changed world [Texte imprimé] / Trevor Price ; illustrated by Ava Raine
Publication : New York : Oxford university press, copyright 2022
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (VIII-339 p.-[16] p. de pl.) : ill. en coul. ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. Index
"In a rapidly changing world, six threats to biodiversity can be summarized by the
acronym COPHID: Climate change, Overharvesting, Pollution, Habitat loss, Invasive
species, and Disease. These threats have led to many extinctions and are on course
to generate many more. Each threat can be traced back to the growth of the human population,
increase in wealth, and in technology. This textbook is designed to provide the summary
of what has happened and why, as well as ask how to predict what will happen under
various scenarios. The ecological principles of species interactions-competition,
predation and parasitism-are applied to food security and to human disease, demonstrating
how simplification of communities threatens both wild species and humans. Dramatic
changes in the environment have been brought about by removal of species (including
collapse of coral reefs), by addition of species (such as predators destroying island
faunas), by pollution (such as the formation of dead zones in the ocean), and by habitat
conversion, with about 75% of the world's productive land being exploited for agriculture
or forestry. Despite these issues, cause for optimism stems from the increase in wealth,
increased education, and an associated decline in the fertility rate. This may eventually
lead to a declining human population, as well as more value placed on an increasingly
scarce commodity, wildlands"
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Raine, Ava. Illustrateur
Sujet(s) : Changement global de l'environnement
Biodiversité -- Environnement
Indice(s) Dewey :
363.7 (23e éd.) = Problèmes environnementaux
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780197564172 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47266589f
Notice n° :
FRBNF47266589
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : The changed world ; pt. I. The rise and fall of populations. Population growth
; Population regulation ; Interactions between species : mutualisms and competition
; Predation and food webs ; Parasites and pathogens ; Evolution and disease ; The
human food supply : competition, predation, and parasitism ; Food security ; pt.
II. The threats to biodiversity. Prediction ; Human population growth ; Growth of
wealth and urbanization ; Habitat conversion ; Economics of habitat conversion
; Climate crisis : history ; Predictions of future climate and its effects ; Pollution
; Invasive species ; Introduced disease ; Harvesting on land ; Harvesting in the
ocean ; Harvesting : prospects ; pt. III. Averting extinctions. Species ; Population
declines ; Extinction ; Species across space ; Island biogeography and reserve
design ; Value of species.
