Recombinant Ecology - A Hybrid Future? (eBook)

Ian D. Rotherham (Autor)

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2017
85 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-49797-6 (ISBN)

Infos

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.     

Inhalt

Foreword 7
Preface 10
Acknowledgments 15
Reference 15
Contents 16
1 An Introduction to the Concept of Recombinant Ecology 17
Global Ecological Crisis 17
Setting the Scene—Ecological History, Aliens, Exotics and Invasives 22
Setting the Scene—Ideas of Recombinant Ecology 24
Novel Ecosystems and Recombinant Communities 28
Novelty and Recombinance 34
Eco-Fusion 39
Examples of Recombinant Ecologies 41
Urban Riverside Vegetation 41
Urban Commons ‘Meadows’ 42
Urban Water-Bodies 42
Urban Woodlands 43
Plantation Forests 44
References 46
2 An Historical Perspective of Ecological Hybridisation 51
The Cultural Facilitation of Ecological Invasion 52
Hybrid Ecologies 53
Examples of the Historic Cultural Drivers of Recombination 55
References 58
3 The Impacts of Urbanisation 60
Urbanisation and Recombinant Ecology 60
Urban Centres and Novel Ecologies 61
Ecological Strategies and Urban Recombinants 62
Polluting the Air 62
Polluting the Waters and the Land 65
References 68
4 The Impacts of Globalisation and Cultural Severance 70
The Impacts of Cultural Severance 70
Global Empires, Acclimatisation and Wild Gardening 71
A History of Animal and Plant Importations 75
References 76
5 Climate Change and Ecological Hybridisation 78
References 81
6 Future Nature and the Consequences of Recombination 82
The Mechanisms of Change 83
Landscapes Transformed 86
Transformed Ecologies 87
Recombinant Ecologies 87
The New Wild: Science, Politics, Environmental Democracy and Managing the Land 88
Some Concluding Thoughts on Perceptions and Attitudes 90
Emerging Paradigms and New Concepts 93
Wilder Futures in a Recombinant World 95
References 98

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.1.2017
• Reihe/Serie: SpringerBriefs in Ecology
• Reihe/Serie: SpringerBriefs in Ecology
• Zusatzinfo: XIX, 85 p. 16 illus., 8 illus. in color.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: Climate change impacts • Ecological fusion • Ecological Systems • Hybrid ecology • Recombinant ecology • Urban and urbanised areas • urban geography and urbanism
• ISBN-10: 3-319-49797-9 / 3319497979
• ISBN-13: 978-3-319-49797-6 / 9783319497976