Recombinant Ecology - A Hybrid Future?

Ian D. Rotherham (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XIX, 85 Seiten

2017
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-49796-9 (ISBN)

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This is a challenging new approach to understanding ecological systems especially in urban and urbanised areas. Synthesising current ideas and approaches the book develops an historic context to ecological fusion and recombinant or hybrid ecosystems. With massive climate change and other environmental fluxes, this volume provides insight into consequences for future ecologies. Invasive and non-native or alien species are spreading, often aggressively around the globe. However, much current thinking in ecology and nature conservation fails to accommodate the consequences of changing environmental conditions and fusion of both species and ecological communities. Whether or not conservationists accept ecological change, factors such as urbanisation and globalisation combine with climate and other changes to trigger new hybrid communities and ecologies. Embedding this approach into current ecological thinking this book presents an overview of ideas set in the exemplar case study area of the British Isles. However, the approaches, ideas and conclusions presented here will find application in ecosystem studies and in nature conservation around the world.

1. An introduction to the concept of recombinant ecology.- 2. An historical perspective of ecological hybridisation.- 3. The impacts of urbanisation.- 4. The impacts of globalisation & cultural severance.- 5. Climate change & ecological hybridisation.- 6. Future nature & the consequences of recombination.

Erscheinungsdatum	07.02.2017
Reihe/Serie	SpringerBriefs in Ecology
Zusatzinfo	XIX, 85 p. 16 illus., 8 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
Schlagworte	Biomedical and Life Sciences • climate change • Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts • Climate change impacts • Ecological fusion • Ecological Systems • Environment Studies • Hybrid ecology • Life Sciences, general • Life sciences: general issues • Recombinant ecology • Society and Social Sciences • The Environment • Urban and municipal planning • Urban and urbanised areas • urban geography and urbanism • Urbanism
ISBN-10	3-319-49796-0 / 3319497960
ISBN-13	978-3-319-49796-9 / 9783319497969
Zustand	Neuware