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FROM BIODIVERSITY TO ECODIVERSITY – HOLISTIC CONSERVATION OF THE BIOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY OF MEDITERRANEAN LANDSCAPES .

TitleFROM BIODIVERSITY TO ECODIVERSITY – HOLISTIC CONSERVATION OF THE BIOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY OF MEDITERRANEAN LANDSCAPES .
Publication TypeCase
Year of Publication1998
AuthorsNaveh, Z.
Secondary AuthorsRUNDEL, P., MONTENEGRO G., & JAKSIC F. M.
ReporterLANDSCAPE DISTURBANCE AND BIODIVERSITY IN MEDITERRANEAN – TYPE ECOSYSTEMS. ECOLOGICAL STUDIES VOL. 136
Reporter Volume136
First Page159-185
CourtSpringer
Keywordsbiological diversity, Cultural diversity, ecodiversity, human activities (voyant), land uses, Mediterranean landscapes
Abstract

Human disturbance in mediterranean-type ecosystems continues to be a subject of serious concern, and nowhere is such disturbance and degradation of natural ecological processes and biodiversity more evident than in the Mediterranean Basin itself. In this chapter I will point out currently prevailing trends in Mediterranean landscapes in the context of our global environmental crisis. This will lead to a discussion of the close interrelations between biological diversity, ecological heterogeneity, and cultural diver- sity, or in one word, total landscape ecodiversity in the Mediterranean Basin, and to recent advances in landscape ecology in the evaluation of this issue. I will conclude by offering some new approaches and tools for holistic ecodiversity conservation as an integral part of the urgently needed environmental revolution