Recombinant Ecology - A Hybrid Future? /

This book addresses critical issues of changing ecology and ecosystems consequent on urbanisation, globalisation, climate change, and human cultural influences. Human-induced and natural climate changes and globalisation accelerate hybridisation; anthropogenic influences causing disturbance, nutrien...

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Main Author: Rotherham, Ian D. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Series:SpringerBriefs in ecology.
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