Ecology category: 3266 books
Media Art and the Urban Environment
Engendering Public Engagement with Urban Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
This text formally appraises the innovative ways new media artists engage urban ecology. Highlighting the role of artists as agents of technological change, the work reviews new modes of seeing, representing and connecting within the urban setting. The book describes how technology can be exploited...
The Gnu's World
Serengeti Wildebeest Ecology and Life History
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2014
This is the first scholarly book on the antelope that dominates the savanna ecosystems of eastern and southern Africa. It presents a synthesis of research conducted over a span of fifty years, mainly on the wildebeest in the Ngorongoro and Serengeti ecosystems, where eighty percent of the world’s...
Invasion Biology and Ecological Theory
Insights from a Continent in Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Many conservationists argue that invasive species form one of the most important threats to ecosystems the world over, often spreading quickly through their new environments and jeopardising the conservation of native species. As such, it is important that reliable predictions can be made regarding...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
The frontier images of America embrace endless horizons, majestic herds of native ungulates, and romanticized life-styles of nomadie peoples. The images were mere reflections of vertebrates living in harmony in an ecosystem driven by the unpre dictable local and regional effects of drought, frre,...
Modelling Complex Ecological Dynamics
An Introduction into Ecological Modelling for Students, Teachers & Scientists
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
Model development is of vital importance for understanding and management of ecological processes. Identifying the complex relationships between ecological patterns and processes is a crucial task. Ecological modelling—both qualitatively and quantitatively—plays a vital role in analysing ecological...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Global warming is expected to change fire regimes, likely increasing the severity and extent of wildfires in many ecosystems around the world. What will be the landscape-scale effects of these altered fire regimes? Within what theoretical contexts can we accurately assess these effects? We explore...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
This multi-contributor, international volume synthesizes contributions from the world's leading soil scientists and ecologists, describing cutting-edge research that provides a basis for the maintenance of soil health and sustainability. The book covers these advances from a unique perspective of...
Fynbos
Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation of a Megadiverse Region
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
South Africa's fynbos region has intrigued biologists for centuries. It has achieved iconic status as a locus of megadiversity and therefore a place to study the ecological underpinnings of massive evolutionary radiations. Researchers have made great advances over the past two decades in unravelling...
by David Ward
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
This book offers a concise but comprehensive introduction to desert ecology and adopts a strong evolutionary focus. As with other titles in the Biology of Habitats Series, the emphasis in the book is on the organisms that dominate this harsh environment, although theoretical and experimental aspects...
by Andrew Hirons, Peter A. Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Many arborists learn tree work practices without fully understanding the biological and physiological principles behind them. However, outcomes for the health and longevity of trees are greatly improved when an arborist understands the science behind the care of tree root systems and crowns. In Applied...
Riparia
Ecology, Conservation, and Management of Streamside Communities
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
This book describes the underlying water conditions and geologies that support viable riparia, illustrates the ecological characteristics of riparia, and discusses how riparia are used by human cultures as well as how riparia can be used to sustain environmental quality. In recent years riparian management...
Great Basin Riparian Ecosystems
Ecology, Management, and Restoration
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Established by the USDA Forest Service in 1993, the Great Basin Ecosystem ManagemProject for Restoring and Maintaining Sustainable Riparian Ecosystems is a large-scale research study that uses an interdisciplinary approach to examine the effects of climate change and human disturbance on riparian...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
The orangutan is the most highly endangered species of great ape. Orangutans are threatened by deforestation, poaching, the illegal pet trade, and the isolation and fragmen tation of dwindling wild populations. Their conservation is impeded by certain aspects of their ecology (e. g. , a rain forest...
Baltic Coastal Ecosystems
Structure, Function and Coastal Zone Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Between November 20 and 23, 2000, the workshop "Baltic Coastal Ecosystems - Structure, Function and Coastal Zone Management" took place in Rostock, Ger many. The workshop was organised by the Institute of Aquatic Ecology of the University of Rostock and the Baltic Sea Research Institute...