Serengeti III: Human Impacts on Ecosystem Dynamics
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Serengeti National Park is one of the world’s most diverse ecosystems, a natural laboratory for ecology, evolution, and conservation, with a history that dates back at least four million years to the beginnings of human evolution. The third book of a grou breaking series, Serengeti III is the result of a long-term integrated research project that documents changes to this unique ecosystem every ten years. Bringing together researchers from a wide range of disciplines—ecologists, paleontologists, ecmists, social scientists, mathematicians, and disease specialists— this volume focuses on the interactions between the natural systemand the human-dominated agricultural system. By examining how changes in rainfall, wildebeest numbers, commodity prices, human populations have impacted the Serengeti ecosystem, the authors conclude that changes in the natural system have affected human welfare just as changes in the human system have impacted the natural world. To promote both the...Похожие книги
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