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040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cLearning Resource Center
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082			_223 _a363.34/B52
084			_aCAS
085			_223 _aCAS 363.34/B52
245	1	0	_aBiological and environmental hazards, risks, and disasters / _cRamesh Sivanpillai ; [edited by] J. F. Shroder.
250			_a1st edition.
263			_a1510
264			_aAmsterdam, Netherlands : _bElsevier, _c©2016.
300			_axxv, 466 pages : _bsome colored illustrations ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext
490			_aHazards and disasters series.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_aIntroduction to Biological and environmental hazards, risks, and disasters / Ramesh Sivanpillai -- Algal blooms / Suzanne McGowan -- Large-scale grasshopper infestations on North American rangeland and crops / Scott P. Schell -- Locusts : an introduction / Jeffrey A. Lockwood -- The Australian plague locust : risk and response / Chris Adriaansen, James D. Woodman, Edward Deveson, and V. Alistair Drake -- Desert locust / Keith Cressman -- Other locusts / Ramesh Sivanpillai -- Decline of bees and other pollinators / Norman Carreck -- Bark beetle-induced forest mortality in the North American Rocky Mountains / Kevin Hyde, Scott Peckham, Thomas Holmes and Brent Ewers -- Novel approaches for reversible field releases of candidate weed biological control agents : putting the genie back into the bottle / James P. Cuda -- Animal hazards : their nature and distribution / Rachel M. Cavin and David R. Butler -- Loss of biodiversity : concerns and threats / Robert M. May -- Chronic environmental diseases : burdens, causes, and response / Kirsten M.M. Beyer -- Land degradation and environmental change / Paolo D'Odorico and Sujith Ravi -- Desertification / John Oswald and Sarah Harris -- Grassland degradation / Abbey F. Wick, Benjamin A. Geaumont, Kevin K. Sedivec and John R. Hendrickson -- Land degradation in rangeland ecosystems / Jay P. Angerez, William E. Fox and June E. Wolfe -- Deforestation / Richard A. Houghton -- Deforestation in Southeast Asia / Edgar C. Turner and Jake L. Snaddon -- Deforestation in Nepal : causes, consequences, and responses / Ram P. Chaudhary, Yadav Uprety and Sagar Kumar Rimal -- Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon / Tim Boekhout van Solinge -- Ecological impacts of climate change / George P. Malanson and Kathryn J. Alftine -- Meteor impact hazard / René A. De Hon.
520			_aBiological and Environmental Hazards, Risks, and Disasters provides an integrated look at major impacts to the Earth's biosphere. Many of these are caused by diseases, algal blooms, insects, animals, species extinction, deforestation, land degradation, and comet and asteroid strikes that have important implications for humans. This volume, from Elsevier's Hazards and Disasters Series, provides an in-depth view of threats, ranging from microscopic organisms to celestial objects. Perspectives from both natural and social sciences provide an in-depth understanding of potential impacts.
650			_aDisasters. _97782
650			_aEnvironmental disasters. _97783
651			_aNatural disasters. _97784
700			_aSivanpillai, Ramesh, volume editior. _97785
700			_aJ. F. Shroder, series editor. _97786
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