Overview
- Unique synthesis of ideas on recombinant and hybrid ecologies and communities
- Case studies and examples of ecological fusion and processes
- Predictive models of future ecologies with nature conservation applications
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Ecology (BRIEFSECOLOGY)
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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.
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Front Matter
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Book Title: Recombinant Ecology - A Hybrid Future?
Authors: Ian D. Rotherham
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Ecology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49797-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-49796-9Published: 25 January 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-49797-6Published: 18 January 2017
Series ISSN: 2192-4759
Series E-ISSN: 2192-4767
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 85
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Life Sciences, general, Urbanism, Environment Studies, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts