The Earth in Transition: Patterns and Processes of Biotic Impoverishment

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Patterns and Processes of Biotic Impoverishment

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Edited by George M. Woodwell, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: November 2009
Print publication year:: 1991
Online ISBN:: 9780511529917
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511529917

Subjects:: Earth and Environmental Sciences, Life Sciences, Environmental Science, Ecology and Conservation

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Life occurs, as far as we know, only as part of the earthly biosphere. Yet the earth's biotic resources are experiencing a spreading crisis that is leading not only to the most rapid loss of species in the last 65 million years, but also causing abrupt changes in the structure and function of natural communities. This disturbance, unfortunately, is the result of human carelessness in the name of advancing civilisation. As our technologies and societies continue to improve and grow, we remove ourselves more and more from our natural habitat; as a consequence, we destroy countless numbers of species of every style and complexity. To identify and begin rectifying this dangerous situation, a group of outstanding environmental scientists has compiled a collection of case studies that illustrate the changes being wrought on the biosphere by the human presence.

Review of the hardback:‘…this is an exceptionally competent book, the only one of its sort to achieve a systematized, also systemic, insight into the question of how far and how fast we are reducing the biotic diversity of the Earth.’

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