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Fig. 4. This ancient sandal was woven from the leaves of Phyllospadix torreyi by the Coastal Chumash approximately 8,000 B.P.
(Courtesy of the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History).
G. The Need for a Conservation Biology
Program Directed at the Seagrasses Biome
Norse (1993) argues that there are five serious
threats to marine biodiversity: (1) overexploitation
of natural resources, (2) physical alteration of habitat and substrate, (3) nutrient and sediment pollution, (4) introduction of alien species, and (5)
global climate change. These five threats often cooccur and the combination of natural disturbance and
Fig. 5. This stanza is from a larger poem entitled ‘The Loves of the Plants: A Poem’ and was written by Erasmus Darwin (1791) – see,
also “Foreword” to this volume.
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Fig. 4. This ancient sandal was woven from the leaves of Phyllospadix torreyi by the Coastal Chumash approximately 8,000 B.P.
(Courtesy of the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History).
G. The Need for a Conservation Biology
Program Directed at the Seagrasses Biome
Norse (1993) argues that there are five serious
threats to marine biodiversity: (1) overexploitation
of natural resources, (2) physical alteration of habitat and substrate, (3) nutrient and sediment pollution, (4) introduction of alien species, and (5)
global climate change. These five threats often cooccur and the combination of natural disturbance and
Fig. 5. This stanza is from a larger poem entitled ‘The Loves of the Plants: A Poem’ and was written by Erasmus Darwin (1791) – see,
also “Foreword” to this volume.