Ecosystems Biology 2004
Author : Holt Rinehart & Winston
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 20,70 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780030699474
Author : Holt Rinehart & Winston
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 20,70 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780030699474
Author : Holt Rinehart & Winston
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 36,43 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780030699474
Author : Gary A. Polis
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 16,82 MB
Release : 2004-02-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 0226673278
Paying special attention to the fertile boundaries between terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems, this work shows not only what this new methodology means for ecology, conservation, and agriculture but also serves as a fitting tribute to Gary Polis and his major contributions to the field
Author : Karen J. Esler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 20,59 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 0198739133
This book provides a concise but comprehensive introduction to Mediterranean-type ecosystems with the emphasis being on the organisms that dominate these regions although their management, conservation, and restoration will also be considered.
Author : Eleanor Noss Whitney
Publisher : Pineapple Press Inc
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 35,57 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781561643080
Ellie Whitney grew up in New York City, was educated at Harvard and Washington universities, and has lived in Tallahassee since 1970. She has taught at Florida State and Florida A & M universities Bruce Means grew up in Alaska, has a Ph. D. in biology from the Florida State University, and is president of the Coastal Plains Institute and Land Conservancy Anne Rudloe has a Ph. D. in biology from Florida State University. She and her husband Jack Rudloe live in Panacea, Florida, where they run the Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory.
Author : Norman John Berrill
Publisher :
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 37,80 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : Lev Ginzburg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 34,19 MB
Release : 2004-04-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 0198037546
A famous ecologist and a philosopher of science team up to offer a fresh new approach to population biology and ecology. Challenging the traditionally accepted Lotka-Volterra model, which is based on predator-prey interactions, this new model emphasizes maternal effects, specifically the significance of a mother's interest in the success of her female offspring.
Author : Steward T.A. Pickett
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 12,45 MB
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 0080504973
Ecology is an historical science in which theories can be as difficult to test as they are to devise. This volume, intended for ecologists and evolutionary biologists, reviews ecological theories, and how they are generated, evaluated, and categorized. Synthesizing a vast and sometimes labyrinthine literature, this book is a useful entry into the scientific philosophy of ecology and natural history. The need for integration of the contributions to theory made by different disciplines is a central theme of this book. The authors demonstrate that only through such integration will advances in ecological theory be possible. Ecologists, evolutionary biologists, and other serious students of natural history will want this book.
Author : Carsten Hobohm
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 11,28 MB
Release : 2021-02-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 3030577104
The novelty of the book is a strong focus on perception, perspectives and prediction by scientists with profound insight into the ecology of ecosystems or into human demands and activity. The challenge is to bridge from empirical data and the knowledge of the past to the possibilities of the performance in the future. We assume that there is scope for more cooperation between the fields of ecology and practical philosophy or other social sciences in organising ecosystems and shaping the cultural future of humankind, and that such collaboration should be accorded considerably more priority. This book deals with environmental processes seen within a framework of the nature of ecosystems and human cultures. The future of the environment, the development of ecosystems and effective nature conservation management are the essentials of this book. Human nature and culture, and in particular their interactions, are interpreted as a set of rules and as given. The aim is not only to assess the significance of human influence on species composition and biodiversity but also to weigh up the subsequent potentials for action. In this book we will analyze the problems independently of one another, even if they are interconnected. This book focuses on perspectives and prognoses for the impacts of anthropogenic activity on ecosystems and thus on species conservation. Its goal is to improve assessments of the impacts of human activity on the environment. We are aware that prognoses have very often proven to be false. It is difficult to impossible to be able to predict with precision how evolution and ecosystems will change in future under anthropogenic influence. This strengthens our resolve to attempt to retain the highest possible degree of scientific integrity and professionalism and not to shy away from expressing the uncertainty of our own ideas and prognoses. We venture prognoses in this book and we will fail. However, we hope that we will be wrong on the right side.
Author : Navjot S. Sodhi
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 33,49 MB
Release : 2010-01-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 0191574252
Conservation Biology for All provides cutting-edge but basic conservation science to a global readership. A series of authoritative chapters have been written by the top names in conservation biology with the principal aim of disseminating cutting-edge conservation knowledge as widely as possible. Important topics such as balancing conversion and human needs, climate change, conservation planning, designing and analyzing conservation research, ecosystem services, endangered species management, extinctions, fire, habitat loss, and invasive species are covered. Numerous textboxes describing additional relevant material or case studies are also included. The global biodiversity crisis is now unstoppable; what can be saved in the developing world will require an educated constituency in both the developing and developed world. Habitat loss is particularly acute in developing countries, which is of special concern because it tends to be these locations where the greatest species diversity and richest centres of endemism are to be found. Sadly, developing world conservation scientists have found it difficult to access an authoritative textbook, which is particularly ironic since it is these countries where the potential benefits of knowledge application are greatest. There is now an urgent need to educate the next generation of scientists in developing countries, so that they are in a better position to protect their natural resources.