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Plant Microevolution and Conservation in Human-influenced Ecosystems
David Briggs
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Description for Plant Microevolution and Conservation in Human-influenced Ecosystems
paperback. With particular emphasis on plants, this thought-provoking text examines the implications of human influences on micro-evolutionary processes. Num Pages: 618 pages, 12 b/w illus. 18 tables. BIC Classification: TQ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 244 x 174 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1198.
As human activities are increasingly domesticating the Earth's ecosystems, new selection pressures are acting to produce winners and losers amongst our wildlife. With particular emphasis on plants, Briggs examines the implications of human influences on micro-evolutionary processes in different groups of organisms, including wild, weedy, invasive, feral, and endangered species. Using case studies from around the world, he argues that Darwinian evolution is ongoing. He considers how far it is possible to conserve endangered species and threatened ecosystems through management, and questions the extent to which damaged landscapes and their plant and animal communities can be precisely recreated or restored. ... Read more
As human activities are increasingly domesticating the Earth's ecosystems, new selection pressures are acting to produce winners and losers amongst our wildlife. With particular emphasis on plants, Briggs examines the implications of human influences on micro-evolutionary processes in different groups of organisms, including wild, weedy, invasive, feral, and endangered species. Using case studies from around the world, he argues that Darwinian evolution is ongoing. He considers how far it is possible to conserve endangered species and threatened ecosystems through management, and questions the extent to which damaged landscapes and their plant and animal communities can be precisely recreated or restored. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
618
Condition
New
Number of Pages
618
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521521543
SKU
V9780521521543
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About David Briggs
David Briggs is Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge. He completed his BSc and PhD from Durham University. He has served as Demonstrator in Botany, Botany School, University of Cambridge from 1961–1964; a Lecturer in Botany, University of Glasgow from 1974–2001; and Lecturer in Botany, and Curator of the Herbarium, Department of Plant Sciences at Cambridge University from ... Read more
Reviews for Plant Microevolution and Conservation in Human-influenced Ecosystems
'… a book that successfully offers broad and balanced coverage of Darwinian ideas as they operate today in plant populations. … The book is thought-provoking as advertised; it is also quite humbling.' Plant Science Bulletin 'David Briggs has produced a resoundingly fascinating overview of the effects of human influences on microevolutionary processes in a wide range of plants and habitats, ... Read more