Human population
Subtitle: its influences on biological diversity
By: R.P. Cincotta, L.J. Gorenflo, editors
Contributors: Lotka, Alfred J. (Alfred James), 1880-1949
Series: Ecological studies -- v. 214; Ecological studies -- v. 214.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9783642167065
Subjects: Environmental aspects; Biodiversity; Population
Notes: Volume dedicated to A.J. Lotka.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : influences of human population on biological diversity; title: Projecting a gridded population of the world using ratio methods of trend extrapolation; title: The human habitat; title: Behavioral mediators of the human population effect on global biodiversity losses; title: The biological diversity that is humanly possible : three models relevant to human population's relationship with native species; title: Biodiversity on the urban landscape; title: Indicators for assessing threats to freshwater biodiversity from humans and human-shaped landscapes; title: A cross-cultural analysis of human impacts on the rainforest environment in Ecuador; title: Human demography and conservation in the Apache Highlands ecoregion, US-Mexico borderlands; title: Long-term ecological effects of demographic and socioeconomic factors in Wolong Nature Reserve (China); title: Exploring the association between people and deforestation in Madagascar; title: A coupled natural and human systems approach toward biodiversity : reflections from social scientists.