Human Impacts on Salt Marshes - A Global Perspective

Zusatztext "A summary and synthesis of relevant recent research on and management recommendations for yet another vital! sensitive and endangered habitat." Informationen zum Autor Brian R. Silliman is Assistant Professor of Zoology at the University of Florida. Mark D. Bertness is Robert P. Brown Professor of Biology at Brown University. Edwin Grosholz is Professor and Alexander and Elizabeth Swantz Specialist in Cooperative Extension at the University of California! Davis. Klappentext " Human Impacts on Salt Marshes provides an excellent global synthesis of an important, underappreciated environmental problem and suggests solutions to the diverse threats affecting salt marshes."—Peter B. Moyle, University of California, Davis Zusammenfassung Salt marshes are vitally important coastal ecosystems that filter water, buffer against storm erosion, and provide essential nursery habitat for important fishery species. This book details how humans have modified salt marshes around the world and why these critical habitats desperately need protection.

Product details

• Authors: Brian R. Silliman, Brian R. Bertness Silliman, BrianR Silliman, Silliman/Bertness
• Assisted by: Mark D. Bertness (Editor), Bertness Mark D. (Editor), Edwin D. Grosholz (Editor), Grosholz Edwin D. (Editor), Brian R. Silliman (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.06.2009
• EAN: 9780520258921
• ISBN: 978-0-520-25892-1
• No. of pages: 432
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; NATURE / Natural Resources, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, Environmental Management, Conservation of the environment, Environmentalist, Conservationist & Green Organizations, Environmentalist, conservationist and Green organizations