TY - JOUR
AU - MORRIS, PAT
AB - Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2011, 104, 964. Book Reviewbij_1765 964 Biological Diversity: exploited and exploiters by from agriculturalists and a lawsuit from hunting P. Hatcher & N. Battey. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, interests. I found the essay on squid particularly 2011. Paperback. ISBN: 978-0-470-77807. £34.95. illuminating. These animals grow at a phenomenal rate, offering the prospect of a rich harvest. But, as The 19 chapters of this book comprise a series of so often happens, the ‘fishery’ collapsed in the very readable and informative essays, divided into North Atlantic in the 1980s and moved south, where ‘Exploiters’ and ‘Exploited’. The text is supplemented excessive catches immediately ensued. However, with graphs and fact boxes to add further dimensions population changes are not simply a matter of over- and details to the topic in hand. The ‘exploited’ exploitation; they also involve climate change and include honeybee, silkworm, sugar cane, salmon, oak alterations in ocean currents. and rabbit. Malaria, bracken, red kite and mistletoe This is a good book to dip into, an interesting one are among the eclectic assortment of ‘exploiters’. The to read on a train journey perhaps. However, anyone account of Sargassum and the Sargasso Sea describes wanting to 
TI - Biological Diversity: exploited and exploiters
JO - Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
DO - 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01765.x
DA - 2011-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/biological-diversity-exploited-and-exploiters-v1LH80ZNMb
SP - 964
EP - 964
VL - 104
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -