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Human Influences on Ecosystems: Dealing With Biodiversity

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Humans as Components of Ecosystems

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Loss of biodiversity is regularly identified, together with global climate change and stratospheric ozone depletion, as one of the greatest environmental risks facing mankind as the result of human activity. Organizations have mobilized to address it or protect it. Legislation has been proposed to preserve biodiversity and organize the government’s approach to it. An international treaty for the conservation of biodiversity has been negotiated. It was a major theme of UNCED, the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janiero, Brazil.

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  1. Peter R. Jutro
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  1. Bartlett Arboretum, 151 Brookdale Road, Stamford, CT, 06903-4199, USA

    Mark J. McDonnell

  2. Mary Flagler Cary Arboretum, Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY, 12545-0129, USA

    Steward T. A. Pickett

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Jutro, P.R. (1993). Human Influences on Ecosystems: Dealing With Biodiversity. In: McDonnell, M.J., Pickett, S.T.A. (eds) Humans as Components of Ecosystems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0905-8_19

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