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The atlas of global conservation : changes, challenges and opportunities to make a difference
Title
The atlas of global conservation : changes, challenges and opportunities to make a difference / Jonathan Hoekstra ... [et al.] ; edited by Jennifer L. Molnar.
ISBN
9780520262560 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520262565 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.
Physical Description
1 online resource
Summary
"The Atlas of Global Conservation is a premier resource for everyone concerned about the natural world. Top scientists at The Nature Conservancy have joined forces to create this guide to the state of the planet today. With over 80 full-color maps and other graphics contextualized with clear, informative discussion, this book offers an unprecedented view of trends across the world's terrestrial, marine, and freshwater environments. Interspersed throughout, essays by noted international authorities point the way forward in confronting some of our greatest conservation challenges."--BOOK JACKET.
Variant and related titles
Internet Archive collection.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 07, 2020
Series
Stephen Bechtel Fund imprint in ecology and the environment
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword : a new view of our home / Mark Tercek
Foreword : conservation connections / Paul R. Ehrlich
1. Introduction
Why ecoregions? / Taylor Ricketts
Terrestrial ecoregions, realms, and biomes
Freshwater ecoregions and basins
Marine ecoregions, provinces, and realms
The stories that maps tell / Jon Christensen
2. Habitats
Forests and woodlands : giving trees
Grasslands : where the buffalo roamed
Deserts and aridlands : hardy life under harsh conditions
Rivers and wetlands : the planet's lifeblood
Lakes : fragile pools of life
Caves and karst : troves of subterranean species
Hope in habitats / Steven J. McCormick
Coasts and shelves : the sea's sunlit margins
Coral reefs : crown jewels of the ocean
Mangrove forests : bridging land and sea
Seagrass beds : marine meadows
Salt marshes : living filters along our coasts
High seas and deep oceans : Earth's uncharted "inner space"
3. Species
Plants : a vital variety
Freshwater fish : a diverse cast
Amphibians : fragile markers of the planet's health
Reptiles : prehistoric survivors
Migrations / Martin Wikelski, David S. Wilcove
Birds : everyday, everywhere wildlife
Mammals : shared destiny with our closest kin
Endemic species : in the narrowest niches
Evolutionary distinction : branches on the tree of life
Promoting livelihoods, saving nature / Greg Mock
4. A world of change
Human population : outnumbering nature
Consuming nature : running out of planet?
Climate change : the planetary emergency
Ultimate agents of global change / Joel E. Cohen
Habitat loss on land : going, going,...
Coastal development : reshaping the seashore
Bottom trawling and dredging : scouring the seafloor
Landscape fragmentation : going to pieces
Thwarted fish runs : up against a wall
Global contamination of the biosphere / John Peterson Myers
Freshwater pollution : clear but hazardous
Nitrogen pollution : too much of a good thing
Ruin of the reefs : fading jewels, lost wealth
Into the wild : the cost of expanding human access
Poverty and nature's services / M. Sanjayan
Forest clearing : uprooting nature
Water stress : overused and undermanaged
Overfishing : emptying the oceans
Wildlife trade : sold into extinction
Future of fisheries / Jackie Alder, Daniel Pauly
Fire : healthy doses of destruction
Dams and reservoirs : clogging Earth's arteries
Sediment flow : starving some habitats, smothering others
Melting ice and rising seas : squeezing the coasts
Disappearing glaciers : ice storage on a slippery slope
Nature conservation and climate change / Jonathan M. Hoekstra
Terrestrial invaders : unwelcome guests
Freshwater invaders : good intentions with costly consequences
Marine invaders : stowaways attacking our coasts
Terrestrial animals at risk : more in jeopardy each year
Freshwater animals at risk : are their futures drying up?
Marine animals at risk : sea life unraveling
5. Taking action
Protected areas on land : triumph for nature
Protecting rivers, lakes, and wetlands : thinking beyond park boundaries
Marine protected areas : oases for fish and people
Protecting nature's services : dividends from the wealth of nature
Convergent conservation / Scott A. Morrison
International cooperation : saving the whales
and more
Greening the marketplace : certifiably profitable
Collaborative solutions : problem-solving partnerships
Conservation on our watch / Gretchen C. Daily, Marilyn Cornelius, Charles J. Katz, Jr., Brian Shillinglaw
Rule of law : protecting the commons
Individual action : parting the waters
Restoring nature : mending the web of life
6. Conclusion : our future, our choices
Appendix A. Ecoregions index maps
Appendix B. Technical notes and references
Index
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