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Recombinant Ecology - A Hybrid Future?

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  • © 2017

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Authors:
  1. Ian D. Rotherham

    1. Faculty of Development and Society, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, United Kingdom

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  • 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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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. An Introduction to the Concept of Recombinant Ecology

    • Ian D. Rotherham
    Pages 1-34

  3. An Historical Perspective of Ecological Hybridisation

    • Ian D. Rotherham
    Pages 35-43

  4. The Impacts of Urbanisation

    • Ian D. Rotherham
    Pages 45-54

  5. The Impacts of Globalisation and Cultural Severance

    • Ian D. Rotherham
    Pages 55-62

  6. Climate Change and Ecological Hybridisation

    • Ian D. Rotherham
    Pages 63-66

  7. Future Nature and the Consequences of Recombination

    • Ian D. Rotherham
    Pages 67-85
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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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  • Faculty of Development and Society, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, United Kingdom

    Ian D. Rotherham

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