Ecology category: 3266 books
by Maria Wechselberger, Mag.
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
Master's Thesis from the year 2002 in the subject Biology - Ecology, grade: 2 (B), University of Vienna (Institute for Ecology), 67 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: 'If all the brown bears are gone from the landscape we would be spiritually impoverished.' was the response...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Contributed to by leading experts, this book looks at the history of coppice woodlands, their physical environment, the different management techniques used and their effects on the flora and fauna. The implications of this for conservation is controversial and this is debated in a lively way in many of the chapters.
Social Structures and Natural Systems
Is a Scientific Assemblage Workable?
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2018
Trapped between the caricatured causalities of biological determinism and the sinister abdications of sociological relativism, socio-ecological interdisciplinarity stagnates. It has lost sight of the ambition of a long-term program and no longer works to conduct applied research on the concrete prerequisites...
by Kurt Jax
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
In the face of decreasing biodiversity and ongoing global changes, maintaining ecosystem functioning is seen both as a means to preserve biological diversity as well as for safeguarding human well-being by securing the services ecosystems provide. The concept today is prominent in many fields of ecology...
by Mike Toms
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2019
Gardens make a significant contribution to the amount of urban green space and are the main contributors to urban biodiversity. Birds are one of the most visible components of this urban biodiversity, and many of us enjoy attracting wild birds into our gardens. This timely addition to the New Naturalist...
Ecotherapy
Healing with Nature in Mind
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
“Groundbreaking . . . Creating a sustainable future means redefining sanity as if the human-nature relationship matters—as it profoundly does.” —Lester R. Brown, president, Earth Policy Institute
In 1995, the anthology Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind brought the...
Yellowstone Grizzly Bears
Ecology and Conservation of an Icon of Wildness
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
This book examines the rich history of grizzly bear management in Yellowstone National Park and explores the challenges of managing an apex predator in the face of climate change and increasing human presence in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
Changes in the Land
Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize
Changes in the Land offers an original and persuasive interpretation of the changing circumstances in New England's plant and animal communities that occurred with the shift from Indian to European dominance. With the tools of both historian and ecologist,...
The Forest Unseen
A Year's Watch in Nature
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
A biologist reveals the secret world hidden in a single square meter of old-growth forest--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Pen/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
Look out for David Haskell's new book, The Songs of Tree: Stories From Nature's Great Connectors, coming in April...
Kivalina
A Climate Change Story
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
This story is a tragedy, and not just because of what’s happening to the people of Kivalina. It’s a tragedy because it’s unnecessary, the product, as the author shows, of calculation, deception, manipulation, and greed in some of the biggest and richest companies on earth.”
-Bill McKibben,...
Perfect Order
Recognizing Complexity in Bali
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2012
Along rivers in Bali, small groups of farmers meet regularly in water temples to manage their irrigation systems. They have done so for a thousand years. Over the centuries, water temple networks have expanded to manage the ecology of rice terraces at the scale of whole watersheds. Although each group...
The Songs of Trees
Stories from Nature's Great Connectors
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
The author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Forest Unseen visits with nature’s most magnificent networkers — trees
“Both a love song to trees, an exploration of their biology, and a wonderfully philosophical analysis of their role they play in human history and in modern culture.”...
Nevada's Changing Wildlife Habitat
An Ecological History
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
For millennia the ecology of the Great Basin has evolved because of climate change and the impacts of human presence. Nevada’s Changing Wildlife Habitat is the first book to explain the transformations in the plants and animals of this region over time and how they came about. Using data gleaned...
Cold
Adventures in the World's Frozen Places
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2009
From avalanches to glaciers, from seals to snowflakes, and from Shackleton's expedition to "The Year Without Summer," Bill Streever journeys through history, myth, geography, and ecology in a year-long search for cold--real, icy, 40-below cold. In July he finds it while taking a dip in a...