Ecology category: 3266 books
Living in a Seasonal World
Thermoregulatory and Metabolic Adaptations
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
This book summarises the newest information on seasonal adaptation in animals. Topics include animal hibernation, daily torpor, thermoregulation, heat production, metabolic depression, biochemical adaptations, neurophysiology and energy balance. The contributors to this book present interdisciplinary...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
In The Wrong Place: Alien Marine Crustaceans - Distribution, Biology And Impacts provides a unique view into the remarkable story of how shrimps, crabs, and lobsters – and their many relatives – have been distributed around the world by human activity, and the profound implications of this global...
Searching for Yellowstone
Ecology and Wonder in the Last Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
In 1997 Yellowstone celebrated its 125th anniversary as a national park, the keystone in the federal system of reserved and protected places. The celebration was somewhat marred by debates over wolf reintroduction, road improvement, resort building, and "bioprospecting," the search for economically...
The House on Ipswich Marsh
Exploring the Natural History of New England
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2014
In 2003, Bill Sargent bought a big pink house in Ipswich, Massachusetts. His home sits on what is known as the Great Marsh, a fascinating patch of wetland shared by Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Sargent received a grant to study some of the rare and endangered ground-nesting birds that inhabit...
by James Stevenson-Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
James Stevenson-Hamilton's South African Eden, a classic of ecology, is a memoir of over four decades of service as warden of what became the world renowned Kruger National Park. With a new concept in preserving the indigenous wilds, Stevenson-Hamilton ensured South Africa's heritage for the future.
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
The book's aim is to present recommendations for sustainable land use and management. The authors follow a hierarchical approach that is inherent in landscape structures and processes as well as in planning practice. During the last decades, landscape ecology has developed tremendously. Future research...
Remote Sensing and GIS for Ecologists
Using Open Source Software
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
This is a book about how ecologists can integrate remote sensing and GIS in their daily work. It will allow ecologists to get started with the application of remote sensing and to understand its potential and limitations. Using practical examples, the book covers all necessary steps from planning...
The Once and Future World
Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
An award-winning ecology writer goes looking for the wilderness we’ve forgotten
Many people believe that only an ecological catastrophe will change humanity’s troubled relationship with the natural world. In fact, as J.B. MacKinnon argues in this unorthodox look at the disappearing wilderness,...
by Michael L. Morrison, William M. Block, M. Dale Strickland
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Wildlife Study Design is a comprehensive guide to all aspects of study design. It including a survey of major types of studies and variables, impact assessment, sampling techniques, inventorying and monitoring, and analysis of data. The book includes a practical, step-by-step guide to setting up a...
Plant Life of the Dolomites
Atlas of Flora
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
This volume offers distribution maps of over 2200 individual species living in the Dolomite area, presenting detailed records on the local range of every species growing in the area studied, from the Puster Valley to the Piave River. The data was collected on the basis of a multiple field observations...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Fundamentals of Ecosystem Science provides a compact and comprehensive introduction to modern ecosystem science.
This book covers major concepts of ecosystem science, biogeochemistry, and energetics. It addresses, contrasts, and compares both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. It combines...
Wetland Techniques
Volume 1: Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Wetlands serve many important functions and provide numerous ecological services such as clean water, wildlife habitat, nutrient reduction, and flood control. Wetland science is a relatively young discipline but is a rapidly growing field due to an enhanced understanding of the importance of wetlands...
Cold-Water Corals
The Biology and Geology of Deep-Sea Coral Habitats
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
There are more coral species in deep, cold-waters than in tropical coral reefs. This broad-ranging treatment is the first to synthesise current understanding of all types of cold-water coral, covering their ecology, biology, palaeontology and geology. Beginning with a history of research in the field,...
Serendipity
An Ecologist's Quest to Understand Nature
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
"Many of the findings in the book . . . are classics of ecology. . . . A rare and delightful insight into timely science."—Jane Lubchenco, Nature
"Estes's refreshing narrative deftly weaves rigorous science with personal reflection to create an absorbing and introspective read that...