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As human activities are increasingly domesticating the Earth's ecosystems, new selection pressures are acting to produce winners and losers amongst our wildlife. With particular emphasis on plants, Briggs examines the implications of human influences on micro-evolutionary processes in different groups of organisms, including wild, weedy, invasive, feral, and endangered species. Using case studies from around the world, he argues that Darwinian evolution is ongoing. He considers how far it is possible to conserve endangered species and threatened ecosystems through management, and questions the extent to which damaged landscapes and their plant and animal communities can be precisely recreated or restored. Many of Darwin's ideas are highlighted, including his insights into natural selection, speciation, the vulnerability of rare organisms, the impact of invasive species, and the effects of climate change on organisms. An important text for students and researchers of evolution, conservation, climate change and sustainable use of resources.

ECO Ecology --- microevolution --- conservation --- nature conservation --- ecosystems --- human impact --- case studies --- endangered plants --- climatic changes --- sustainable development --- darwinism --- Plants --- Nature --- Plant conservation. --- Endangered plants. --- Endangered plant species --- Endangered vascular plants --- Special status plants --- Threatened plants --- Endangered species --- Plant conservation --- Rare plants --- Native vegetation conservation --- Vegetation conservation --- Nature conservation --- Plants, Protection of --- Endangered plants --- Fungi conservation --- Anthropogenic effects on nature --- Ecological footprint --- Human beings --- Anthropogenic soils --- Human ecology --- Plant evolution --- Evolution (Biology) --- Evolution. --- Effect of human beings on. --- Conservation --- Extinction --- Phylogeny