Biodiversity in the Marine Environment /
| Autores principales: | , , , |
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2014.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2014. |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction
- The importance of marine biodiversity
- Key features
- Hierarchical components
- The impacts of human activities on marine biodiversity
- The strategic values of research
- Status and trends
- How many marine species are there?
- Taxonomic records
- Cryptic species
- The DNA barcode
- The drive to identify new species
- The "taxonomic impediment"
- Species under pressure
- Extinct species
- Endangered species
- Ecosystems under pressure: the deep sea
- Spatial patterning of characteristics
- Temporal patterns
- Conceptualising biodiversity
- Conceptual frameworks for relationships between biodiversity and human societies
- Choice of model framework
- Measuring biodiversity
- Biodiversity as a macroscopic descriptor in the European Union Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD)
- Drivers of changes in biodiversity and its uses
- Environmental drivers: a working framework
- Integrated scenarios and policies
- Policies and decision support
- Developing scenarios
- Quantitative methods, models and integrated assessment
- Research needs
- The framework: environmental research
- Naturalistic dimensions
- Human dimensions of research
- Developing modelling: a summarising approach
- Sources
- References
- Databases
- Abbreviations and acronyms
- Group of experts.