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      • Edited by Klaus Rohde, University of New England, Australia
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      March 2013
      February 2013
      ISBN:
      9781139095075
      9781107019614
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139095075
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.01kg, 426 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Earth and Environmental Sciences, Life Sciences, Climatology and Climate Change, Ecology and Conservation
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    It is clear that nature is undergoing rapid changes as a result of human activities such as industry, agriculture, travel, fisheries and urbanisation. What effects do these activities have? Are they disturbing equilibria in ecological populations and communities, thus upsetting the balance of nature, or are they enhancing naturally occurring disequilibria, perhaps with even worse consequences? It is often argued that large-scale fluctuations in climate and sea-levels have occurred over and over again in the geological past, long before human activities could possibly have had any impact, and that human effects are very small compared to those that occur naturally. Should we conclude that human activity cannot significantly affect the environment, or are these naturally occurring fluctuations actually being dangerously enhanced by humans? This book examines these questions, first by providing evidence for equilibrium and non-equilibrium conditions in relatively undisturbed ecosystems, and second by examining human-induced effects.

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    'This book summarizes ecological responses to global environmental change; it is relevant to interested readers of different backgrounds trying to understand why scientists are worried about current environmental change.'

    Source: Integrative and Comparative Biology

    'Klaus Rohde's fascinating edited volume The Balance of Nature and Human Impact offers a snapshot of current research, exploring evidence for or against equilibrium processes from an array of systems, interspersed with reviews of literature on selected topics.'

    Brian Drayton Source: Biological Conservation

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