Book Description
This is a comprehensive book on the biodiversity of one of the most diverse ecosystems known - tropical freshwater.
Author : C. Lévêque
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 36,71 MB
Release : 1997-05-13
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780521570336
This is a comprehensive book on the biodiversity of one of the most diverse ecosystems known - tropical freshwater.
Author : Michael L. McKinney
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 14,45 MB
Release : 2001-04-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780231505802
How will patterns of human interaction with the earth's eco-system impact on biodiversity loss over the long term--not in the next ten or even fifty years, but on the vast temporal scale be dealt with by earth scientists? This volume brings together data from population biology, community ecology, comparative biology, and paleontology to answer this question.
Author : Louis W. Botsford
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 31,10 MB
Release : 2019-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 0198758367
This book outlines concepts such as population variability, population stability, population viability and persistance, and harvest yield. Also addressed are specific applications to conservation such as managing species at risk, fishery management, and the spatial manageement of marine resources.--Adapted from back cover.
Author : Pedro Giovâni Da Silva
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 20,23 MB
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 2889667804
Author : Michael L. McKinney
Publisher :
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 13,55 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780231104159
How will patterns of human interaction with the earth's ecosystem impact biodiversity loss over the long term - not in the next ten or even fifty years, but on the vast temporal scale dealt with by earth scientists? The contributors to Biodiversity Dynamics bring together the cutting-edge findings of a number of different fields that have traditionally had little crossover: data from population biology, community ecology, comparative biology, and paleontology are all presented. Where paleontologists and ecologists have long had divergent perspectives, Biodiversity Dynamics seeks a middle ground, finding ways for both scientific communities to work together to comprehend the great biodiversity of the earth and how to preserve it for future generations.
Author : Christian Leveque
Publisher :
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 37,51 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biodiversity conservation
ISBN :
Author : Oswald J. Schmitz
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 39,49 MB
Release : 2013-03-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 1597265985
Meeting today’s environmental challenges requires a new way of thinking about the intricate dependencies between humans and nature. Ecology and Ecosystem Conservation provides students and other readers with a basic understanding of the fundamental principles of ecological science and their applications, offering an essential overview of the way ecology can be used to devise strategies to conserve the health and functioning of ecosystems. The book begins by exploring the need for ecological science in understanding current environmental issues and briefly discussing what ecology is and isn’t. Subsequent chapters address critical issues in conservation and show how ecological science can be applied to them. The book explores questions such as: • What is the role of ecological science in decision making? • What factors govern the assembly of ecosystems and determine their response to various stressors? • How does Earth’s climate system function and determine the distribution of life on Earth? • What factors control the size of populations? • How does fragmentation of the landscape affect the persistence of species on the landscape? • How does biological diversity influence ecosystem processes? The book closes with a final chapter that addresses the need not only to understand ecological science, but to put that science into an ecosystem conservation ethics perspective.
Author : Kevin J. Gaston
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 33,46 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0198526415
A synthesis of present understanding of the structure of the geographic ranges of species, which is a core issue in ecology and biogeography with implications for many of the environmental issues presently facing humankind.
Author : Russell Lande
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 49,71 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780198525257
1. Demographic and environmental stochasticity -- 2. Extinction dynamics -- 3. Age structure -- 4. Spatial structure -- 5. Population viability analysis -- 6. Sustainable harvesting -- 7. Species diversity -- 8. Community dynamics.
Author : C. Leveque
Publisher :
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 21,93 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Fish communities
ISBN :