Ecology category: 3266 books
Floodplains
Processes and Management for Ecosystem Services
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Floodplains provides an overview of floodplains and their management in temperate regions. It synthesizes decades of research on floodplain ecosystems, explaining hydrologic, geomorphic, and ecological processes and how under appropriate management these processes can provide benefits to society...
by John K. Jeglum, Håkan Rydin
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Peatlands form important landscape elements in many parts of the world and play significant roles for biodiversity and global carbon balance. This new edition has been fully revised and updated, documenting the latest advances in areas such as microbial processes and relations between biological processes...
The Everglades Handbook
Understanding the Ecosystem, Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
** **"This fourth edition covers the key subjects of previous editions with major updates of the new science and understanding. If there ever was a necessary book for Everglades advocates, students, authors, members of government and their agencies, The Everglades Handbook: Understanding the...
by Jeffery Burley
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2004
A combination of broad disciplinary coverage and scientific excellence, the Encyclopedia of Forest Sciences will be an indispensable addition to the library of anyone interested in forests, forestry and forest sciences. Packed with valuable insights from experts all over the world, this remarkable...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Freshwater fish are one of the most diverse groups of vertebrates, but are also amongst the most threatened. With contributions from leaders in the field, this is the first assessment of the global state of freshwater fish diversity, synthesising the opportunities, challenges and barriers facing the...
A Guide for Desert and Dryland Restoration
New Hope for Arid Lands
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Dryland degradation and desertification now affect alma billion people around the world. Tragically, the biological resources and productivity of millions of acres of land are lto desertification each year because people remain unaware of strategies and techniques that could improve yields, reduce...
World as Lover, World as Self
A Guide to Living Fully in Turbulent times
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2003
This overview of Joanna Macy's innovative work combines deep ecology, general systems theory, and the Buddha's teachings on interdependent co-arising. A blueprint for social change, World as Lover, World as Self shows how we can reverse the destructive attitudes that threaten our world, with concrete...
Panarchy
Understanding Transformations in Human and Natural Systems
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Creating institutions to meet the challenge of sustainability is arguably the mimportant task confronting society; it is also dauntingly complex. Ecological, economic, and social elements all play a role, but despite ongoing efforts, researchers have yet to succeed in integrating the various disciplines...
by Clive Hambler, Susan M. Canney
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
The importance of conservation is growing each year, with increasing concerns over the destruction of biodiversity and the rising awareness of ecosystem services generating new debates on the human-nature relationship. This compact overview integrates the process, theory and practice of conservation...
Conserving Africa's Mega-Diversity in the Anthropocene
The Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Centring on South Africa's Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park, this book synthesizes a century of insights from the ecology and conservation management of one of Africa's oldest protected wildlife areas. The park provides important lessons for conservation management, as it has maintained conservation values...
Conflicts in Conservation
Navigating Towards Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Conflicts over the conservation of biodiversity are increasing and are serious obstacles to wildlife conservation efforts worldwide. Changing patterns in land use, over-exploitation, pollution, climate change and the threat posed by invasive species all challenge the way we currently maintain and...
Sustainability by Design
A Subversive Strategy for Transforming Our Consumer Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
The developed world, increasingly aware of inconvenient truths” about global warming and sustainability, is turning its attention to possible remedies-eco-efficiency, sustainable development, and corporate social responsibility, among others. But such measures are mere Band-Aids, and they may actually...
Globalisation and Agricultural Landscapes
Change Patterns and Policy trends in Developed Countries
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2010
Whilst agricultural landscapes are products of the local ecosystem and community in which they are situated, they are becoming increasingly affected by the same global issues, and are converging under the dynamics of globalisation. Combining landscape ecological research and an examination of relevant...
by George William Albert Constable
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
In this thesis two variants of the fast variable elimination method are developed. They are intuitive, simple to implement and give results which are in very good agreement with those found from numerical simulations. The relative simplicity of the techniques makes them ideal for applying to problems...