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  title info:
    title: Impact of Climate Change and Human Activity on the Eco-environment
    sub title: An Analysis of the Xisha Islands
  name:
    name part: Xu, Liqiang.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVI, 150 p. 53 illus., 14 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This study describes the fundamentals of assessing the vulnerability of coral islands, as well as environmental management and resource exploitation. Using seabird subfossils, such as bones, guano, eggshells etc., which have been well preserved on the Xisha Islands in the South China Sea, the author identifies the influences of climate change and human activity on seabird populations and diets. Understanding the past is of great importance for predicting the future, and seabird subfossils provide valuable information, which can be used to study changes in seabird ecology, paleoceanography and palaeoclimate. Furthermore, this study proposes examining the biogeochemical cycling of some elements present in the geosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere and atmosphere. Dr. Liqiang Xu works at the Hefei University of Technology, China.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Research contents and methodology -- Study area and sample collection -- Chronology -- Geochemical evidence for the development of coral island ecosystem in the Xisha archipelago of the South China Sea -- A 2200-year record of seabird population on Ganquan Island, South China Sea.- Isotopic evidence for seabird diet changes over the past 2000 years in the Xisha Islands.- Evidence of human activities from the ornithogenic sediments of the Xisha Islands -- A preliminary study of ancient DNA in guano subfossils from the Xisha Islands -- Conclusions.
  note: by Liqiang Xu.
  subject:
    topic: Earth sciences
  subject:
    topic: Climate change
  subject:
    topic: Geochemistry
  subject:
    topic: Oceanography
  subject:
    topic: Geobiology
  subject:
    topic: Environmental sciences
  subject:
    topic: Earth Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Biogeosciences
  subject:
    topic: Oceanography
  subject:
    topic: Geochemistry
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Science and Engineering
  subject:
    topic: Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts
  classification: QH343.4
  classification: 550
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  identifier: 9783662450031
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45003-1
  record info:
    record creation date: 141010
    record change date: 20151029221118.0
    record identifier: 978-3-662-45003-1