Provides extensive information on natural disturbance ecology, spatial patterns in forested landscapes, connectivity, riparian areas and wetlands, interior habitat, biodiversity and old growth forests, the dead wood cycle, and edge effects for land management practitioners.
Part 1: Introduction -- 1.Diversity of caterpillar adaptations in a complex evolutionary landscape -- Part 2: Impacts of the first trophic level, plants, on caterpillar ecology and evolution -- 2.Surface warfare: Interactions between caterpillars and plant structural defenses --…
Conservation paleobiology: science and practice
Conservation paleobiology: science and practice
Introduction -- Conservation paleobiology in near time
Conservation paleobiology: science and practice
In conservation, perhaps no better example exists of the past informing the present than the return of the California condor to the Vermilion Cliffs of Arizona. Extinct in the region for nearly one hundred years, condors were successfully reintroduced starting in the 1990s in an…
Conservation paleobiology: science and practice
Although, the first edition had a similar focus, more than five years have passed since its publication and the biological and social circumstances of the lake have drastically changed due to, for example, the further expansion of alien species, the decrease of indigenous specie…
This monograph is the result of eight years of bibliographical and field research concerning several behavioural ecology aspects of the Palaearctic falcons. For a while, this book grew along with "The Lanner falcon" published in 2015 and revised in 2017. In both books the main a…
This monograph is the result of eight years of bibliographical and field research concerning several behavioural ecology aspects of the Palaearctic falcons. For a while, this book grew along with "The Lanner falcon" published in 2015 and revised in 2017. In both books the main a…