Freshwater Biodiversity: Status, Threats and Conservation

by David Dudgeon

Book Overview

Growing human populations and higher demands for water impose increasing impacts and stresses upon freshwater biodiversity. Their combined effects have made these animals more endangered than their terrestrial and marine counterparts. Overuse and contamination of water, overexploitation and overfishing, introduction of alien species, and alteration of natural flow regimes have led to a 'great thinning' and declines in abundance of freshwater animals,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521745195
• ISBN13: 9780521745192
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 514 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.6" x 8.9"