Ecology category: 3266 books
Creating and Restoring Wetlands
From Theory to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Creating and Restoring Wetlands: From Theory to Practice describes the challenges and opportunities relating to the restoration of freshwater and estuarine wetlands in natural, agricultural, and urban environments in the coming century.
The underpinnings of restoration, driven by ecological...
Environmental Restoration
Science And Strategies For Restoring The Earth
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
Environmental Restoration is the product of a ground-breaking conference on ecological restoration, held in January 1988 at the University of California, Berkeley. It offers an overview from the nation's leading experts of the mcurrtechniques of restoration, including examples of the complex and subtle...
A Magic Web
The Tropical Forest of Barro Colorado Island
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
The tropical forest of Panama's Barro Colorado Island is a luxuriant community of plants and animals, pulsating with life and offering an astonishing view of nature's myriad processes. What does the forest look like? How do the activities of the forest's plants and animals create a community?
In...
by Ellie Whitney, D Bruce Means, Anne Rudloe
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2015
Taken from the earlier book Priceless Florida (and modified for a stand-alone book), this volume discusses the well-drained areas of Florida, including high pine grasslands, flatwoods and prairies, interior scrub, hardwood hammocks, rocklands and caves, and beach dunes. Introduces readers to the trees...
Wetland Environments
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Wetlands - swamp, marsh, bayou, tundra and bog - are places that are rarely visited and often misunderstood but they have, in fact, conspicuous roles in the physical, biological and cultural geography of the world. They are intrinsically beautiful environments where one may see the natural and essential...
Solar Flares
What You Need to Know: A Special from Tarcher/Penguin
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
There is a force out there that could destroy our world in minutes. . . .
Solar flares—brief bursts of radiation from our sun—have always existed and have never been particularly dangerous. Nature hasn’t changed. But we have. By making our world so dependent on electricity delivered...
by John P Rafferty
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Earth’s biosphere supports several unique biomes and ecosystems. Though they operate as self-contained units, these regions also operate as part of a global network, nurturing interdependence among greatly diverse plant and animal species. The evolution of these wondrous realms—both aquatic and...
How Not to Be Eaten
The Insects Fight Back
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
All animals must eat. But who eats who, and why, or why not? Because insects outnumber and collectively outweigh all other animals combined, they comprise the largest amount of animal food available for potential consumption. How do they avoid being eaten? From masterful disguises to physical and...
by Angela Wagner
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Delve deep into ecosystems by classifying the beings that live there. Our resource breaks down the different kinds of animals before studying their different adaptations. Start off by answering the question: what do we classify? Then, break down this classification into kingdom, phylum, class, family,...
by Angela Wagner
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Study the different kinds of ecosystems and the life that thrives in them. Our resource introduces students to essential life science concepts in a way that makes it more accessible and easier to understand. Start off by examining the different parts of an ecosystem, including biotic and abiotic things....
What Fish Don't Want You to Know
The Insider's Guide to Fresh-Water Spin-Fishing
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2003
Expert, field-tested advice for anglers at every level
This comprehensive, entertaining, and foolproof guide covers everything novice and avid anglers need to know to catch freshwater fish--from bass and trout to salmon and walleye--and reveals the two basic ways to catch ALL fish.
With...
Bears in the Bird Feeders
Cottage Life on Shaman's Rock
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2013
Listen carefully and you will hear cottage country whispering lessons that can make our lives less frenetic, less complicated. The mournful call of the loon, the wind sighing in the trees, the hammering of the pileated woodpecker remind us that we are a part of a more natural world too often lost...
The Battle for North Carolina's Coast
Evolutionary History, Present Crisis, and Vision for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2011
The North Carolina barrier islands, a 325-mile-long string of narrow sand islands that forms the coast of North Carolina, are one of the most beloved areas to live and visit in the United States. However, extensive barrier island segments and their associated wetlands are in jeopardy. In The Battle...
Wild North Carolina
Discovering the Wonders of Our State's Natural Communities
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Celebrating the beauty, diversity, and significance of the state's natural landscapes, Wild North Carolina provides an engaging, beautifully illustrated introduction to North Carolina's interconnected webs of plant and animal life. From dunes and marshes to high mountain crags, through forests, swamps,...