Ecology category: 3266 books
Statistics for Ecologists Using R and Excel
Data Collection, Exploration, Analysis and Presentation
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
This is a book about the scientific process and how you apply it to data in ecology. You will learn how to plan for data collection, how to assemble data, how to analyze data and finally how to present the results. The book uses Microsoft Excel and the powerful Open Source R program to carry out data...
The Ecological Rift
Capitalisms War on the Earth
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Humanity in the twenty-first century is facing what might be described as its ultimate environmental catastrophe: the destruction of the climate that has nurtured human civilization and with it the basis of life on earth as we know it. All ecosystems on the planet are now in decline. Enormous rifts...
Microbia
A Journey into the Unseen World Around You
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
From Eugenia Bone, the critically acclaimed author of Mycophilia, comes an approachable, highly personal look at our complex relationship with the microbial world.
While researching her book about mushrooms, Eugenia Bone became fascinated with microbes—those life forms that are too small...
Annual, Lunar, and Tidal Clocks
Patterns and Mechanisms of Nature's Enigmatic Rhythms
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
There is more to biological rhythms than circadian clocks. This book aims at promoting the exciting potential of a deeper understanding of circannual, circatidal, and circalunar clocks. It highlights new developments, summarizes existing knowledge, and integrates different perspectives with the tools...
by David Lowenthal
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Is unity of knowledge possible? Is it desirable? Two rival visions clash. One seeks a single way of explaining everything known and knowable about ourselves and the universe. The other champions diverse modes of understanding served by disparate kinds of evidence. Contrary views pit science against...
Crabgrass Crucible
Suburban Nature and the Rise of Environmentalism in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
Although suburb-building created major environmental problems, Christopher Sellers demonstrates that the environmental movement originated within suburbs--not just in response to unchecked urban sprawl. Drawn to the countryside as early as the late nineteenth century, new suburbanites turned to taming...
by Dov M. Gabbay, Paul Thagard, John Woods
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2007
Philosophy of Biology is a rapidly expanding field. It is concerned with explanatory concepts in evolution, genetics, and ecology. This collection of 25 essays by leading researchers provides an overview of the state of the field. These essays are wholly new; none of them could have been written even...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Artificial Reefs in European Seas focuses on artificial reef research in the Mediterranean and NE Atlantic. The book describes most of the long-term projects running in European seas, presents the legal and economic issues, and suggests future uses for artificial reefs in the European context.
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The Nature of Nutrition
A Unifying Framework from Animal Adaptation to Human Obesity
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2012
Nutrition has long been considered more the domain of medicine and agriculture than of the biological sciences, yet it touches and shapes all aspects of the natural world. The need for nutrients determines whether wild animals thrive, how populations evolve and decline, and how ecological communities...
Taste, Memory
Forgotten Foods, Lost Flavors, and Why They Matter
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Taste, Memory traces the experiences of modern-day explorers who rediscover culturally rich forgotten foods and return them to our tables for all to experience and savor.
In Taste, Memory author David Buchanan explores questions fundamental to the future of food and farming. How can we strike...
Conservation Biology
Evolution in Action
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
The main goal of this book is to encourage and formalize the infusion of evolutionary thinking into mainstream conservation biology. It reviews the evolutionary foundations of conservation issues, and unifies conceptual and empirical advances in evolutionary conservation biology. The book can be used...
by Charles J. Krebs
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
How did rodent outbreaks in Germany help to end World War I? What caused the destructive outbreak of rodents in Oregon and California in the late 1950s, the large population outbreak of lemmings in Scandinavia in 2010, and the great abundance of field mice in Scotland in the spring of 2011? Population...
Evolution's Wedge
Competition and the Origins of Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Evolutionary biology has long sought to explain how new traits and new species arise. Darwin maintained that competition is key to understanding this biodiversity and held that selection acting to minimize competition causes competitors to become increasingly different, thereby promoting new traits...
by George King
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
This is the Hour of Truth
This is a Cosmic Transmission given by The Master Aetherius through the mediumship of Dr George King and is a vital message to all New Age workers. This teaching is about spiritual ecology and the debt we owe to The Mother Earth who sustains us and allows us continued...