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Habitat Loss, Fragmentation, and Degradation
2019This chapter describes habitat loss, fragmentation, and degradation. Habitat loss poses the greatest threat to the variety of life on this planet today. It refers to complete elimination of habitats, along with their biological communities and ecological functions. Habitat loss usually results from the conversion of natural or semi-natural habitat into
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Habitat Loss, Agrobiodiversity, and Incidental Wildlife Loss
2017Producing food can carry a steep ecological price. Over the past century, the need to grow enough food to support an expanding global population has resulted in vast swaths of forests and wetlands being converted into farmland or pastures. This development is a result of the industrialization of the food production systems around the world, the ...
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Species, Communities, and Habitat Loss
2018This chapter examines the question what is bad about the extinction of a species, and whether the extinction of a species is bad for its members. It asks what a species is, whether it is a population rather than a type, whether it has a good, and whether it can act, and argues that we cannot straightforwardly say yes to any of those questions.
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The Loss of Natural Habitats and the Addition of Artificial Substrata
2009This chapter focuses on changes to the distribution of hard-bottom habitats that are directly or indirectly attributable to human activities. We report some documentation and key examples about the past and current losses of hard-bottom habitats, particularly those of biogenic origin.
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Habitat Losses and Conservation of Mutualisms
2017Examples discussed in the previous chapter help to emphasise that knowledge of mutualisms has two rather different roles in practical conservation, but in both those areas of interest, the importance of fundamental understanding of the interactions’ functions can guide the purposes and practices of any needed management. Threats to, and conservation of,
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Habitat Loss Confounds Climate Change Impacts
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 2004Biological reserves are set aside to conserve species in dynamic, human-dominated landscapes; however, most reserve systems protect only small, potentially biased samples of environmental conditions across the range of individual species or habitat types.
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2006
This advanced workshop aims to discuss current knowledge of the key issues of conserving European marine biodiversity, with the aim of preparing a multi-authored review paper on “European marine biodiversity threats and conservation needs.” Highlighted topics are: habitat loss across Europe (Laura Airoldi, University of Bologna, Italy), using the ...
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This advanced workshop aims to discuss current knowledge of the key issues of conserving European marine biodiversity, with the aim of preparing a multi-authored review paper on “European marine biodiversity threats and conservation needs.” Highlighted topics are: habitat loss across Europe (Laura Airoldi, University of Bologna, Italy), using the ...
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