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Sandy beaches as endangered ecosystems : environmental problems, possible assessment and management solutions
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ISBN: 0429053258 0429624514 Year: 2022 Publisher: Boca Raton, Florida ; London ; New York : CRC Press,

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"Sandy beaches are the most abundant coastal environment worldwide, and have an undeniable and unique ecological value. Presently, however, these environments are also one of the most endangered ecosystems, namely due to the influence of several human activities and to the rise of the sea level, aggravated by the ongoing global climatic changes. In this book, contributing authors from around the world highlight the environmental problems that endanger these delicate systems worldwide, and point out management and conservation strategies, with case studies where environmental disturbances were assessed and monitored"--


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A conceptual framework for Lake Michigan coastal/nearshore ecosystems, with application to Lake Michigan Lakewide Management Plan (LaMP) objectives
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Year: 2013 Publisher: Reston, Virginia : U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey,

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Coastal habitat conservation : new perspectives and sustainable development of biodiversity in the anthropocene
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ISBN: 0323856136 0323856144 9780323856140 9780323856133 Year: 2023 Publisher: London, UK : Elsevier,


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Drawing the sea near : satoumi and coral reef conservation in Okinawa
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ISBN: 9781517906610 151790661X 9781517906627 1517906628 9781452959467 1452959463 Year: 2020 Publisher: Minneapolis, MN University of Minnesota Press

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"How Japanese coastal residents and transnational conservationists collaborated to foster relationships between humans and sea life"-- Drawing the Sea Near opens a new window to our understanding of transnational conservation by investigating projects in Okinawa shaped by a “conservation-near” approach—which draws on the senses, the body, and memory to collapse the distance between people and their surroundings and to foster collaboration and equity between coastal residents and transnational conservation organizations. This approach contrasts with the traditional Western “conservation-far” model premised on the separation of humans from the environment.Based on twenty months of participant observation and interviews, this richly detailed, engagingly written ethnography focuses on Okinawa’s coral reefs to explore an unusually inclusive, experiential, and socially just approach to conservation. In doing so, C. Anne Claus challenges orthodox assumptions about nature, wilderness, and the future of environmentalism within transnational organizations. She provides a compelling look at how transnational conservation organizations—in this case a field office of the World Wide Fund for Nature in Okinawa—negotiate institutional expectations for conservation with localized approaches to caring for ocean life.In pursuing how particular projects off the coast of Japan unfolded, Drawing the Sea Near illuminates the real challenges and possibilities of work within the multifaceted transnational structures of global conservation organizations. Uniquely, it focuses on the conservationists themselves: why and how has their approach to project work changed, and how have they themselves been transformed in the process?


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The Montenegrin Adriatic coast : marine biology
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ISBN: 3030775135 3030775127 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Springer,


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A Theory of Global Biodiversity (MPB-60)
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ISBN: 1400890233 Year: 2018 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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The number of species found at a given point on the planet varies by orders of magnitude, yet large-scale gradients in biodiversity appear to follow some very general patterns. Little mechanistic theory has been formulated to explain the emergence of observed gradients of biodiversity both on land and in the oceans. Based on a comprehensive empirical synthesis of global patterns of species diversity and their drivers, A Theory of Global Biodiversity develops and applies a new theory that can predict such patterns from few underlying processes. The authors show that global patterns of biodiversity fall into four consistent categories, according to where species live: on land or in coastal, pelagic, and deep ocean habitats. The fact that most species groups, from bacteria to whales, appear to follow similar biogeographic patterns of richness within these habitats points toward some underlying structuring principles. Based on empirical analyses of environmental correlates across these habitats, the authors combine aspects of neutral, metabolic, and niche theory into one unifying framework. Applying it to model terrestrial and marine realms, the authors demonstrate that a relatively simple theory that incorporates temperature and community size as driving variables is able to explain divergent patterns of species richness at a global scale. Integrating ecological and evolutionary perspectives, A Theory of Global Biodiversity yields surprising insights into the fundamental mechanisms that shape the distribution of life on our planet.

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