Tropical Ecosystems in Australia
Subtitle: Responses to a Changing World
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9780429328008
Subjects: Forests and forestry, australia; Rain forest ecology; Rain forests
Description: "Over the last century, the world has lived through changes more rapid than those experienced at any other time in human history, leading to pressing environmental problems and demands on the world's finite resources. Nowhere is this more evident than across the world's warm belt; a region likely to have the greatest problems and which is home to some of the world's most disadvantaged people. This book reviews aspects of the biology of tropical ecosystems of northern Australia, as they have been affected by climatic, social and land-use changes. Tropical Australia can be regarded as a microcosm of the world's tropics and as such, shares with other tropical regions many of the conflicts between various forms of development and environmental considerations"--