"Synthesizes ecology and natural history of North American freshwater mussels for scientists, natural resource professionals, students and natural history enthusiasts"-- "This well-illustrated book highlights freshwater mussels' fabulous diversity, amazing array of often bizarr…
"Synthesizes ecology and natural history of North American freshwater mussels for scientists, natural resource professionals, students and natural history enthusiasts"-- "This well-illustrated book highlights freshwater mussels' fabulous diversity, amazing array of often bizarr…
"In Driven Wild, Paul Sutter traces the intellectual and cultural roots of the modern wilderness movement from about 1910 through the 1930s, with tightly drawn portraits of four Wilderness Society founders - Aldo Leopold, Robert Sterling Yard, Benton MacKaye, and Bob Marshall. E…
In this poineering application of island biogeography theory, Harris presents an alternative to current practices of timber harvesting.""Harris pulls together many threads of biological thinking about islands and their effect on plant and animal survival and evolution. He weaves…
"Beyond Naturalness brings together leading scientists and policymakers to explore the concept of naturalness, its varied meanings, and the extent to which it provides adequate guidance regarding where, when, and how managers should intervene in ecosystem processes to protect pa…
"This concise, accessible introduction to understanding agricultural chemicals and public health combines a broad synthesis on a global scale with rich ethnographic narratives on a human scale. Drawing on epidemiology, policy analysis, and social science research on the global c…
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.
Much of the world takes a healthy meal for granted, but it is truly a miracle of science. The Green Revolution of the 1950s and 1960s introduced herbicides, pesticides, and advanced agricultural technologies to the developing world - rescuing hundreds of millions of people from …
An Atlas of the World's Conifers is the first ever atlas of all known conifer species. It is based on locality information of ca. 37,000 collected herbarium specimens held in scientific institution. As well as providing natural distribution maps for each species, Farjon and File…
Hunger, malnutrition, poor health, and deficient food systems are widespread in Sub-Saharan Africa. While much is known about African food systems and about African health and nutrition, our understanding of the interaction between food systems and health and nutrition is defici…
Environmental restoration: science and strategies for restoring the Earth
by Berger, John J., Restoring the Earth (Organization), University of California, Berkeley., College of Natural Resources, University of California, Berkeley., Center for Environmental Design Research, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, Restoring the Earth Conference, University of California, Berkeley)
Environmental Restoration is the product of a ground-breaking conference on ecological restoration, held in January 1988 at the University of California, Berkeley. It offers an overview from the nation's leading experts of the most current techniques of restoration, including ex…
An exceptional book that pursues three intersecting trends to explain important shifts in environmental history and the environmental movement. This is not a simple or ordinary history of a conservation crusade. Schrepfer very ably traces the changes in scientific wisdom from ni…
"Serengeti IV explores the role of our species as a source of both discord and balance in Serengeti ecosystem dynamics. Through chapters charting the complexities of infectious disease transmission across populations, agricultural expansion, and the many challenges of managing t…
