Ecology category: 3266 books
Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology
Principles and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Human activities impact the environment and modify the cycles of important elements such as carbon and nitrogen from local to global scales. In order to maintain long-term and sustainable use of the world's natural resources it is important that we understand how and why ecosystems respond to such...
by Ulrich Lüttge
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Crop Ecology
Productivity and Management in Agricultural Systems
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Food security and environmental conservation are two of the greatest challenges facing the world today. It is predicted that food production must increase by at least 70% before 2050 to support continued population growth, though the size of the world's agricultural area will remain essentially unchanged....
Climate - Vegetation:
Afro-Asian Mediterranean and Red Sea Coastal Lands
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Deserts are unique ecosystems with their own biotic and abiotic components, and are often rich in renewable natural resources, the appropriate management of which can contribute significantly to the sustainable management of desert regions for the welfare of the people.
Yet while there are...
by Ivan Valiela
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
The oceans represent a vast, complex and poorly understood ecosystem. Marine Ecological Processes is a modern review and synthesis of marine ecology that provides the reader with a lucid introduction to the intellectual concepts, approaches, and methods of this evolving discipline. Comprehensive in...
Artificial Neuronal Networks
Application to Ecology and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In this book, an easily understandable account of modelling methods with artificial neuronal networks for practical applications in ecology and evolution is provided. Special features include examples of applications using both supervised and unsupervised training, comparative analysis of artificial...
Resilience in Ecology and Urban Design
Linking Theory and Practice for Sustainable Cities
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2013
The contributors to this volume propose strategies of urgent and vital importance that aim to make today’s urban environments more resilient. Resilience, the ability of complex systems to adapt to changing conditions, is a key frontier in ecological research and is especially relevant in creative...
by James A. Young, B. Abbott Sparks
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2002
**A sophisticated ecological analysis of ranching in northern Nevada featuring a new chapter and new epilogue by the authors.**First published in 1985, Cattle in the Cold Desert has become a classic in the environmental history of the Great Basin, brilliantly combining a lively account of the development...
Alpine Treelines
Functional Ecology of the Global High Elevation Tree Limits
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2012
Alpine treelines mark the low-temperature limit of tree growth and occur in mountains world-wide. Presenting a companion to his book Alpine Plant Life, Christian Körner provides a global synthesis of the treeline phenomenon from sub-arctic to equatorial latitudes and a functional explanation based...
Thomas Berry, Dreamer of the Earth
The Spiritual Ecology of the Father of Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
A tribute to the visionary contributions and prophetic writings of Thomas Berry, spiritual ecologist and father of environmentalism
• Contains 10 essays by eminent philosophers, thinkers, and scientists in the field of ecology and sustainability, including Matthew Fox, Joanna Macy, Duane...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
Recent advances in molecular genetics and genomics have been embraced by many in natural resource conservation. Today, several major conservation and management journals are now using 'genetics' editors to deal solely with the influx of manuscripts that employ molecular data. The editors have attempted...
Forest Landscape Restoration
Integrating Natural and Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
Restoration ecology, as a scientific discipline, developed from practitioners’ efforts to restore degraded land, with interest also coming from applied ecologists attracted by the potential for restoration projects to apply and/or test developing theories on ecosystem development. Since then, forest...
by Fabrice Flipo
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
The book examines ecological issues such as climate change and biodiversity, articulating local and global scales, and short and long term perspectives, questioning what "development" and "progress" are. The goal is to show how diverging points of view are conflictingly articulated...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Golden-winged Warblers (Vermivora chrysoptera) are migratory songbirds that breed in temperate North America, primarily in the Great Lakes region with remnant populations throughout the Appalachian Mountains, and winter in Central and northern South America. Their breeding range has contracted dramatically...