"Based on contributions to a conference arranged by the Woods Hole Research Center, Massachusetts, October, 1986."
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Bromus tectorum, a biotic cause of ecosystem impoverishment in the Great Basin / W.D. Billings -- Detecting early signs of regional air-pollution injury to coastal sage scrub / Walter E. Westman -- Arctic ecosystems : patterns of change in response to disturbance / L.C. Bliss -- Changes in a Red Sea coral community structure : a long-term case history study / Y. Loya -- Are deep-sea communities resilient? / J. Frederick Grassle, Nancy J. Maciolek, and James A. Blake -- Species dominance : diversity patterns in oceanic communities / John A. McGowan -- Natural and anthropogenically imposed limitations to biotic richness in fresh waters / David W. Schindler -- Human impacts on the South Florida wetlands : the Everglades and Big Cypress Swamp / William A. Niering.
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The earth under stress : a transition to climatic instability raises questions about patterns of impoverishment / George M. Woodwell -- The experimental impoverishment of natural communities : effects of ionizing radiation on plant communities, 1961-1976 / George M. Woodwell and Richard A. Houghton -- Air pollution and temperate forests : creeping degradation / F. Herbert Bormann -- The long-term effects of air pollutants on lichen communities in Europe and North America / D.L. Hawksworth -- Biotic impoverishment in Northern peatlands / Eville Gorham -- Climatic change and the survival of forest species / Margaret Bryan Davis -- The atmosphere and the future of the biosphere : points of interactive disturbance / Michael Oppenheimer.
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The impoverishment of aquatic communities by smelter activities near Sudbury, Canada / N.D. Yan and P.M. Welbourn -- Biotic impoverishment : effects of anthropogenic stress / John Cairns, Jr., and James R. Pratt -- Steps toward sustainability / J. Gustave Speth -- A reaction from a multitude / Donella H. Meadows.
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The restoration of Nonsuch Island as a living museum of Bermuda's precolonial terrestrial biome / David B. Wingate -- Patterns of impoverishment in natural communities : case history studies in forest ecosystems : New Zealand / A.F. Mark and G.D. McSweeney -- Changes in the eucalypt forests of Australia as a result of human disturbance / R.L. Specht -- Impoverishment in Pacific Island forests / Dieter Mueller-Dombois -- Deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia / Philip M. Fearnside -- Incentives for sustainable forest management / Robert Repetto -- Changes in the Mediterranean vegetation of Israel in response to human habitation and land use / Zev Naveh and Pua Kutiel.
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A collection of case studies which illustrate the changes being wrought on the biosphere by the human presence. Compiled by a group of environmental scientists in response to the growing crisis of the Earth's biotic resources, the book concludes with possible solutions to the situation.