Ecology category: 3266 books
Design for Human Ecosystems
Landscape, Land Use, and Natural Resources
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1999
For more than 30 years, John Tillman Lyle (1934-1998) was one of the leading thinkers in the field of ecological design. Design for Human Ecosystems, originally published in 1985, is his classic text that explores methods of designing landscapes that function in the sustainable ways of natural ecosystems....
Extinction in Our Times
Global Amphibian Decline
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
For over 350 million years, thousands of species of amphibians have lived on earth, but since the 1990s they have been disappearing at an alarming rate, in many cases quite suddenly and mysteriously. What is causing these extinctions? What role do human actions play in them? What do they tell us about...
Savannas of Our Birth
People, Wildlife, and Change in East Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
This book tells the sweeping story of the role that East African savannas played in human evolution, how people, livestock, and wildlife interact in the region today, and how these relationships might shift as the climate warms, the world globalizes, and human populations grow.
Our ancient...
IntelligTinkering
Bridging the Gap between Science and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
Robert J. Cabin uses the restoration of tropical dry forestland in Hawaii as an in-depth case study to investigate the scientific, practical, and philosophical issues associated with performing ecological restoration in the messy real world.
Interweaving entertaining narratives of his own...
by John E. Fa, Stephan M. Funk, Donnamarie O'Connell
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
In the face of ever-declining biodiversity, zoos have a major role to play in species conservation. Written by professionals involved in in situ conservation and restoration projects internationally, this is a critical assessment of the contribution of zoos to species conservation through evidence...
Plant Conservation Science and Practice
The Role of Botanic Gardens
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
Only a green world, rich in plants, can sustain us and the millions of other species with which we share this planet. But, in an era of global change, nature is on the retreat. Like the communities they form, many plant species are becoming rarer, threatened even to the point of extinction. The worldwide...
by Michael J. Jeffries
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2006
This revised second edition provides an introductory guide through the maze of interdisciplinary themes that comprise 'biodiversity.' It combines biological sciences with insights into the origins, variety and distribution of biodiversity, analysis of the social and political context, and the threats...
Nature Out of Place
Biological Invasions In The Global Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Though the forests are still green and the lakes full of water, an unending stream of invasions is changing many ecosystems around the world from productive, tightly integrated webs of native species to loose assemblages of stressed native species and aggressive invaders. The earth is becoming what...
The Planner’s Guide to Natural Resource Conservation:
The Science of Land Development Beyond the Metropolitan Fringe
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2009
Much of the country’s recent population growth is situated in exurban areas. By many accounts exurbanization has become the dominant pattern of land development in the country and there is no indication it will slow in the foreseeable future (Theobald 2005; Brown et al. 2005; Glennon and Kretser...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
This long-anticipated reference and sourcebook for California’s remarkable ecological abundance provides an integrated assessment of each major ecosystem type—its distribution, structure, function, and management. A comprehensive synthesis of our knowledge about this biologically diverse state,...
The Challenge of Rural Electrification
Strategies for Developing Countries
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Douglas Barnes and his team of development experts provide an essential guide that can help improve the quality of life to the estimated 1.6 billion rural people in the world who are without electricity. The difficulties in bringing electricity to rural areas are formidable: Low population densities...
Wildfire Risk
Human Perceptions and Management Implications
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
The continuing encroachment of human settlements into fire-prone areas and extreme fire seasons in recent years make it urgent that we better understand both the physical and human dimensions of managing the risk from wildfire. Wildfire Risk follows from our awareness that increasing public knowledge...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The urgent need to resolve conflicts over forests, fisheries, farming practices, urban sprawl, and greenhouse-gas reductions, among many others, calls for a critical rethinking of the nature of our democracy and citizenship. This work aims to move the ideas of green democracy and ecological citizenship...
The California Nitrogen Assessment
Challenges and Solutions for People, Agriculture, and the Environment
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Nitrogen is indispensable to all life on Earth. However, humans now dominate the nitrogen cycle, and nitrogen emissions from human activity have real costs: water and air pollution, climate change, and detrimental effects on human health, biodiversity, and natural habitats. Too little nitrogen limits...