Southeastern Asian Biodiversity in Crisis (Cambridge Tropical Biology Series) (Cambridge Tropical Biology Series)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 16, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780521839303
Subjects: Conservation of the environment; Ecological science, the Biosphere; Management of land & natural resources; Nature; Nature/Ecology; South East Asia; Asia - Southeast Asia; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Science / Biology; Biodiversity; Southeast Asia
First sentence: If the human impact on the natural environment continues unabated at its present rate, or indeed increases in severity, then by the turn of the next century, the resulting changes in land use will have exerted a profound and irreversible effect on tropical biodiversity (Sala et al. 2000).