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Risk assessment, detection, control, legal, instruments, plants, animals.
Author : Michael Norman Clout
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 49,49 MB
Release : 2009-07-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199216320
Risk assessment, detection, control, legal, instruments, plants, animals.
Author : Michael Norman Clout
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,89 MB
Release : 2023
Category : Biological invasions
ISBN : 9781383035476
The management of invasive alien species is a rapidly advancing field of applied ecology. This book is an authoritative synthesis of the principles and techniques of preventing, eradicating and controlling these species. It also documents lessons that have been learned and recommends 'best practice'.
Author : Therese M. Poland
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 28,32 MB
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 3030453677
This open access book describes the serious threat of invasive species to native ecosystems. Invasive species have caused and will continue to cause enormous ecological and economic damage with ever increasing world trade. This multi-disciplinary book, written by over 100 national experts, presents the latest research on a wide range of natural science and social science fields that explore the ecology, impacts, and practical tools for management of invasive species. It covers species of all taxonomic groups from insects and pathogens, to plants, vertebrates, and aquatic organisms that impact a diversity of habitats in forests, rangelands and grasslands of the United States. It is well-illustrated, provides summaries of the most important invasive species and issues impacting all regions of the country, and includes a comprehensive primary reference list for each topic. This scientific synthesis provides the cultural, economic, scientific and social context for addressing environmental challenges posed by invasive species and will be a valuable resource for scholars, policy makers, natural resource managers and practitioners.
Author : Wallace Kaufman
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 28,41 MB
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0811749835
Identify and understand the plants that are changing the North American landscape forever.
Author : James H. Miller
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,48 MB
Release : 2011-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 1437987451
Invasions of non-native plants into forests of the Southern United States continue to go unchecked and only partially un-monitored. These infestations increasingly erode forest productivity, hindering forest use and management activities, and degrading diversity and wildlife habitat. Often called non-native, exotic, non-indigenous, alien, or noxious weeds, they occur as trees, shrubs, vines, grasses, ferns, and forbs. This guide provides information on accurate identification of the 56 non-native plants and groups that are currently invading the forests of the 13 Southern States. In additin, it lists other non-native plants of growing concern. Illustrations. This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication.
Author : Carla C. Bossard
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 50,44 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Invasive plants
ISBN : 9780520225466
"Invasive nonnative plants threaten native species with habitat loss, displacement, and severe population declines, thus seriously reducing biodiversity. Invasive Plants of California's Wildlands is a tremendous source for land managers and others who are interested in protecting the rich natural heritage of California and surrounding states."--John C. Sawhill, President and CEO, The Nature Conservancy
Author : Theodore Alter
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,31 MB
Release : 2019-06-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 1486308880
Invasive species are among the greatest challenges to environmental sustainability and agricultural productivity in the world. One of the most promising approaches to managing invasive species is voluntary citizen stewardship. However, in order for control measures to be effective, private citizens often need to make sustained and sometimes burdensome commitments. Community-Based Control of Invasive Species is based on five years of research by leading scholars in natural resource and human behavioural sciences, which involved government and citizen groups in Australia and the United States. It examines questions including, 'how can citizens be engaged in voluntarily managing invasive species?', 'what communication strategies will ensure good motivation and coordination?' and 'how can governing bodies support citizens in their efforts?'. With chapters on institutional frameworks, changing governance, systems thinking, organisational learning, engagement, communication and behavioural change, this book will be a valuable reference for researchers and practitioners involved in natural resources management.
Author :
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 2290 pages
File Size : 17,84 MB
Release : 2017-11-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 012813576X
Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene, Five Volume Set presents a currency-based, global synthesis cataloguing the impact of humanity’s global ecological footprint. Covering a multitude of aspects related to Climate Change, Biodiversity, Contaminants, Geological, Energy and Ethics, leading scientists provide foundational essays that enable researchers to define and scrutinize information, ideas, relationships, meanings and ideas within the Anthropocene concept. Questions widely debated among scientists, humanists, conservationists, politicians and others are included, providing discussion on when the Anthropocene began, what to call it, whether it should be considered an official geological epoch, whether it can be contained in time, and how it will affect future generations. Although the idea that humanity has driven the planet into a new geological epoch has been around since the dawn of the 20th century, the term ‘Anthropocene’ was only first used by ecologist Eugene Stoermer in the 1980s, and hence popularized in its current meaning by atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen in 2000. Presents comprehensive and systematic coverage of topics related to the Anthropocene, with a focus on the Geosciences and Environmental science Includes point-counterpoint articles debating key aspects of the Anthropocene, giving users an even-handed navigation of this complex area Provides historic, seminal papers and essays from leading scientists and philosophers who demonstrate changes in the Anthropocene concept over time
Author : Odd Terje Sandlund
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 15,16 MB
Release : 2001-06-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780792368762
Based on a selection of papers presented at the Norway/UN Conference on Alien Species, Trondheim, Norway
Author : Gregory M. Ruiz
Publisher :
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 48,4 MB
Release : 2003-12
Category : Nature
ISBN :
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