Klaus Rohde | ||||
Cambridge University Press, | ||||
2013 | ||||
English | ||||
413 pages | ||||
7.59 MB | ||||
[tab] [content title="Summary"] It is evident that nature is experiencing rapid changes due to human activities such as industry, agriculture, travel, fisheries, and urbanization. What are the effects of these activities? Are they disrupting equilibria within ecological populations and communities, thereby upsetting the balance of nature, or are they exacerbating naturally occurring disequilibria with potentially severe consequences? Some argue that large-scale fluctuations in climate and sea levels have occurred repeatedly throughout geological history, long before human activity could have had any impact, suggesting that human influence is minimal compared to natural processes. Should we then conclude that human activity has a negligible effect on the environment, or are these natural fluctuations being dangerously amplified by human actions? This book addresses these questions by first presenting evidence for equilibrium and non-equilibrium conditions in relatively undisturbed ecosystems, and then by exploring the effects induced by human activity. [/content] [content title="Content"] [/content] [content title="Author(s)"] [/content] [/tab]
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