Conservation in Chilean Patagonia Assessing the State of Knowledge, Opportunities, and Challenges

Chilean Patagonia, located at the southwestern tip of South America, is one of the last regions on earth where highly intact environments predominate. With a coastline that extends along some 100,000 km of fjords, channels, and islands, it has one of the world´s most extensive marine-terrestrial int...

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Autor principal: Castilla, Juan Carlos (-)
Otros Autores: Armesto Zamudio, Juan J., Martínez-Harms, María José, Tecklin, David
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing 2023.
Edición:1st ed. 2023.
Colección:Integrated science (Springer (Firm)) 19.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • An integrated conservation vision for Chilean Patagonia
  • Global change and acceleration of anthropic pressures on Patagonian ecosystems
  • Representativeness assessment and identification of priorities for the protection of terrestrial ecosystems in Chilean Patagonia
  • Terrestrial protected areas in Chilean Patagonia: characterization, historical evolution, and management
  • Conserving the origin of rivers: intact forested watersheds in western Patagonia
  • Peatlands in Chilean Patagonia: distribution, biodiversity, ecosystem services, and conservation
  • Steppe ecosystems in Chilean Patagonia: distribution, climate, biodiversity, and threats to their sustainable management
  • Coastal-marine protection in Chilean Patagonia: historical progress, current situation, and challenges
  • Marine mammals and seabirds of Chilean Patagonia: focal species for the conservation of marine ecosystems
  • Hard bottom macrobenthos of Chilean Patagonia: emphasis on conservation of subltitoral invertebrate and algal forests
  • Fisheries and marine conservation in Chilean Patagonia
  • Aquaculture and its impacts on the conservation of Chilean Patagonia
  • Ecological connections across the marine-terrestrial interface in Chilean Patagonia
  • A conservation assessment of freshwater ecosystems in southwestern Patagonia
  • Chilean Patagonian glaciers and environmental change
  • Conservation and indigenous people in Chilean Patagonia
  • Drivers of change in ecosystems of Chilean Patagonia: current and projected trends
  • Analysis of tourism development linked to protected areas in Chilean Patagonia.