Ecology

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641726689Author Vincent JenningsFormat HardbackPage Count 229Imprint Larsen and Keller EducationPublisher Larsen and Keller EducationWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641721363Author Hillary NewlandFormat HardbackPage Count 262Imprint Larsen and Keller EducationPublisher Larsen and Keller EducationWeight(grams)...

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The philosophy of existentialism is undergoing an ecological renewal, as global warming, mass extinction, and other signs of the planetary scale of human actions are making it glaringly apparent that existence is always ecological coexistence. One of the...

Ecoviews Too examines various human attitudes toward wildlife and the environment, focusing on seasonal occurrences and natural adaptations. Whit Gibbons and Anne R. Gibbons's Ecoviews Too: Ecology for All Seasons is based on the popular weekly column...

The Mekong River Basin: Ecohydrological Complexity from Catchment to Coast, Volume Three presents real facts, data and predictions for quantifying human-induced changes throughout the Mekong watershed, including its estuaries and coasts, and proposes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609406233Author Matthew DickersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Wings PressPublisher Wings Press

Snow and ice environments support significant biological activity, yet the biological importance of some of these habitats, such as glaciers, has only recently gained appreciation. Collectively, these ecosystems form a significant part of the cryosphere,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670099696Author Harini NagendraFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin VikingPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaDimensions(mm) 120mm * 90mm * 10mm

From two veteran ecologists comes a new and sweeping exploration of the natural history of Texas in all its biological diversity and geological variation. Few states, if any, can match Texas for its myriad species, past and present, and its many...

Ecocriticism has grown into one of the most innovative and urgent fields of the humanities, and many useful ecocritical approaches for addressing our environmental crisis have been developed, discussed, and reconsidered during the last decade. From...

It is only natural for people to be fascinated by the sea. Life originated in the oceans, and more than one-half of the people on Earth reside within 50 miles of the sea. However, even though we have sent explorers to the moon and other regions of space,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877456322Author Michael J. LannooFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint University of Iowa PressPublisher University of Iowa Press

In this controversial book Herman Daly, a leading commentator on the environment, offers lively criticism of existing work on ecological economics and the economics of ecology. The theme throughout the book is about changes in perspective, attitudes and...

The aim of this text is to provide an up-to-date understanding of the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem in East Africa, home to one of the largest and most diverse populations of animals in the world. Building on the groundwork laid by "Serengeti: Dynamics of an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063073852Author Zo� SchlangerFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 454g

In the summer of 1980, Dave Foreman, along with four conservationist colleagues, founded the millenarian movement Earth First!. A provocative counterculture that ultimately hoped for the fall of industrial civilization, the movement emerged in response...

Silicon is among the most abundant elements on earth. It plays a key but largely unappreciated role in many biogeochemical processes, including those that regulate climate and undergird marine food webs. "The Silicon Cycle" is the first book in more than...

Invasive alien species are among today's most daunting environmental threats, costing billions of dollars in economic damages and wreaking havoc on ecosystems around the world. In 1997, a consortium of scientific organizations including SCOPE, IUCN, and...

Most textbooks on measuring terrestrial vegetation have focused on the characteristics of biomass, cover, and the density or frequency of dominant life forms (trees, shrubs, grasses, and forbs), or on classifying, differentiating, or evaluating and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685900472Author John Bellamy FosterFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

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Seasonality is so obvious that we very often forget about it when doing landscape research. Seasonality is the interface where humans and nature really interact. Seasonality is expressed both in the natural rhythms of the landscape as well as in human...

Populations of cities have grown at unprecedented rate, consuming ever more land, placing severe strain on the environment and also on cash-strapped governments. Nature needs to be reintroduced to our cities. This book is focused on urban nature...

This book presents a biography of the Danish botanist Eugen Warming. As the author of a treatise on ecology that brought him international recognition, he was able to inspire the first generation of 20th-century European and American ecologists. His...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541603127Author Rob DunnFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 145mm * 33mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550415766Author Dr Wayne LynchFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Fitzhenry & WhitesidePublisher Fitzhenry & WhitesideWeight(grams) 599gDimensions(mm)...

Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum, downy brome) is an exotic species that appeared in North American in the late nineteenth century and has since become a dominant plant in the arid rangelands between the Sierra Nevada, Cascades, and Rocky Mountains. A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611864939Author Gail Gunst HeffnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Michigan State University PressPublisher Michigan State University...

In this fascinating book, Terry O'Connor explores a distinction that is deeply ingrained in much of the language that we use in zoology, human-animal studies, and archaeology - the difference between wild and domestic.For thousands of years, humans have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781600210471Author Jiquan ChenFormat HardbackPage Count 311Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 954g

As in past installments of "The Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology" series, this year's volume contains a diverse collection of timely reviews in conservation biology and scientific, policy, and management implications, including reviews in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781486307418Author Stephen GarnettFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint CSIRO PublishingPublisher CSIRO PublishingWeight(grams) 890g

Large and intense wildfires are integral to the globally important boreal forest biome. While much is known about boreal wildfires, the focus on forest remnants that either escape or survive these intense fires is a recent phenomenon: academics now study...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781429680578Author Maria AlainaFormat PaperbackPage Count 16Imprint Capstone PressPublisher Capstone PressWeight(grams) 3gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 152mm * 2mm

2021 winner of Non-fiction popular category: New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance The Mullica Valley estuary and its watershed, formed over the last 10,000 years, are among the cleanest estuaries along the east coast of the United States. This...

Naturalist John James Audubon found the Great Plains and their wildlife so riveting when he visited the region in 1834 that he broke off a letter to his wife because he was too excited to write. In the almost two hundred years since then, the Wyoming...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780750324304Author Hugo FortFormat HardbackPage Count 298Imprint Institute of Physics PublishingPublisher Institute of Physics PublishingWeight(grams)...

Jacques Ninio addresses molecular biology from the evolutionist's viewpoint, reviewing major research areas such as acquisitive evolution; the comparison of protein structures in three dimensions; the stability of the genetic code; and prebiotic...

In a collection rich in implications for all fields of ecology, leading lizard ecologists demonstrate the utility of the phylogenetic approach in understanding the evolution of morphology, physiology, behavior, and life histories. Lizards, which are...