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| Summary: | Numerous experts including ecologists, geneticists, paleontologists and climatologists, investigate the response of terrestrial organisms to changes in their environment. The volume comprises an introductory and a final chapter by the editors as well as another 35 contributions. These are divided into six sections: 1. past environmental changes - the late-Quaternary; 2. spatial responses to past changes; 3. mechanisms enabling spatial responses; 4. evolutionary responses to past changes; 5. mechanisms enabling evolutionary responses; 6. predicted future environmental changes and simulated responses. The overwhelming and unanimous conclusion of all contributors is that forecasted global environmental changes pose a severe threat to the integrity of ecosystems worldwide and to the survival of at least some species.
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| Item Description: | "Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop "Past and Future Rapid Environmental Changes--the Spatial and Evolutionary Responses of Terrrestrial Biota", held at Crieff, Scotland, June 26-30, 1995"--T.p. verso. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 523 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| ISBN: | 3540618775 |
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