Ecology category: 3266 books
Issues and Concepts in Historical Ecology
The Past and Future of Landscapes and Regions
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
Historical ecology is a research framework which draws upon diverse evidence to trace complex, long-term relationships between humanity and Earth. With roots in anthropology, archaeology, ecology and paleoecology, geography, and landscape and heritage management, historical ecology applies a practical...
Learning Landscape Ecology
A Practical Guide to Concepts and Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
This title meets a great demand for training in spatial analysis tools accessible to a wide audience. Landscape ecology continues to grow as an exciting discipline with much to offer for solving pressing and emerging problems in environmental science. Much of the strength of landscape ecology lies...
Integral Ecology
Uniting Multiple Perspectives on the Natural World
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Today there is a bewildering diversity of views on ecology and the natural environment. With more than two hundred distinct and valuable perspectives on the natural world—and with scientists, economists, ethicists, activists, philosophers, and others often taking completely different stances on...
Evolutionary Ecology of Parasites
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
Parasites have evolved independently in numerous animal lineages, and they now make up a considerable proportion of the biodiversity of life. Not only do they impact humans and other animals in fundamental ways, but in recent years they have become a powerful model system for the study of ecology...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
The study of primate ecology and conservation has advanced rapidly in recent years. This practical volume brings together a group of distinguished primate researchers to synthesize field, laboratory, and conservation management techniques for primate ecology and conservation. The synthesis focuses...
How to Do Ecology
A Concise Handbook - Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Most books and courses in ecology cover facts and concepts but don't explain how to actually do ecological research. How to Do Ecology provides nuts-and-bolts advice on organizing and conducting a successful research program. This one-of-a-kind book explains how to choose a research question and answer...
by Kevin de Laplante, Kent Peacock, Bryson Brown
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
The most pressing problems facing humanity today — over-population, energy shortages, climate change, soil erosion, species extinctions, the risk of epidemic disease, the threat of warfare that could destroy all the hard-won gains of civilization, and even the recent fibrillations of the stock market...
Human Ecology
How Nature and Culture Shape Our World
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Humans have always been influenced by natural landscapes, and always will be—even as we create ever-larger cities and our developments fundamentally change the nature of the earth around us. In Human Ecology, noted city planner and landscape architect Frederick Steiner encourages us to consider...
Landscape Ecology in Theory and Practice
Pattern and Process
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
An ideal text for students taking a course in landscape ecology. The book has been written by very well-known practitioners and pioneers in the new field of ecological analysis. Landscape ecology has emerged during the past two decades as a new and exciting level of ecological study. Environmental...
by Peter J. Morin
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
All life on earth occurs in natural assemblages called communities. Community ecology is the study of patterns and processes involving these collections of two or more species. Communities are typically studied using a diversity of techniques, including observations of natural history, statistical...
Assembly Rules and Restoration Ecology
Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Understanding how ecosystems are assembled -- how the species that make up a particular biological community arrive in an area, survive, and interact with other species -- is key to successfully restoring degraded ecosystems. Yet little attention has been paid to the idea of assembly rules in ecological...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Organisms and environment have evolved through modifying each other over millions of years. Humans appeared very late in this evolutionary time scale. With their superior brain attributes, humans emerged as the most dominating influence on the earth. Over the millennia, from simple hunter-food gatherers,...
Warfare Ecology
A New Synthesis for Peace and Security
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
The purpose of this book is specific and ambitious: to outline the distinctive elements, scope, and usefulness of a new and emerging field of applied ecology named warfare ecology. Based on a NATO Advanced Research Workshop held on the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico, the book provides both a theoretical...
by Stephen T. Ross Ph. D.
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
The North American freshwater fish fauna is the most diverse and thoroughly researched temperate fish fauna in the world. Ecology of North American Freshwater Fishes is the only textbook to provide advanced undergraduate and graduate students and researchers with an up-to-date and integrated view...