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Coastal Habitat Conservation
New Perspectives and Sustainable Development of Biodiversity in the Anthropocene
1st Edition - January 18, 2023
Editor: Free Espinosa
Paperback ISBN:9780323856133
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eBook ISBN:9780323856140
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Coastal Habitat Conservation: New Perspectives and Sustainable Development of Biodiversity in the Anthropocene offers the latest research and approaches to biodiversity conservation in coastal areas. The book synthesizes the background of foundational conservation views and provides new perspectives and recent strategies within a sustainable development context for coastal species and organic life. Written by a team of international authors with expertise in wide-ranging issues of biodiversity conservation, this book analyzes the challenges of conserving marine habitats and species that humanity faces in the Anthropocene era.
Sections explore emerging and unforeseen impacts within a changing world, specifically, the marine-based conservation in the context of global change, coastal urbanization and mitigation of its environmental impacts, marine bioinvasions, conservation strategies for of out-of-sight communities like caves, habitat restoration, and the citizen science and its challenging role in monitoring conservation.
Discusses different strategies to deal with various biological and ecological impacts on coastal marine species and habitats
Offers new insights into the practices of marine conservation in the Anthropocene
Led by editors whose expertise includes marine biodiversity, marine ecology and marine habitat conservation
1. Today’s impacts, evolution, pressure changes, and the current direction of marine conservation
2. Marine area-based conservation in the context of global change
3. Effects of coastal urbanization on marine species and habitat conservation
4. Marine bioinvasions in the Anthropocene
5. Biodiversity, aquaculture, and conservation of endangered species
6. Conservation of out-of-sight communities and dark habitats
7. A physiological approach to conservation using biomarkers and molecular approaches
8. Conserving marine biodiversity with ecological restoration
9. Citizen science, conservation policies, monitoring, and management
No. of pages: 238
Language: English
Published: January 18, 2023
Imprint: Academic Press
Paperback ISBN: 9780323856133
eBook ISBN: 9780323856140
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Free Espinosa
Dr. Free Espinosa Torre currently teaches in the Zoology Department at the University of Seville. He received his PhD in Conservation Biology of Marine Invertebrates from the University of Seville. His research expertise includes marine conservation, marine benthic invertebrates on rocky shores, intertidal ecology, marine protected areas (MPAs), marine environment monitoring, and marine endangered invertebrate and limpet biology.