Applied Ecology

Encounters with wild animals are among the most significant relationships between humans and the natural world. Presenting a history of human inter...

In the late 1800s, American entrepreneurs became participants in the 400-year history of European economic and ecological hegemony in the tropics. ...

A team of researchers, students, and local staff surveyed the vertebrate and invertebrate species in four areas of the Okavango Delta in northweste...

All life is chemical. That fact underpins the developing field of ecological stoichiometry, the study of the balance of chemical elements in ecolog...

Bakker's classic of ecological science now includes three new chapters on Southern California which make the book more useful than ever. Striking n...

Physics and chemistry are distinguished from biology by the way generalizations are codified into theories tested by observation and experimentatio...

This benchmark volume documents in comprehensive detail a major environmental crisis: rapidly declining amphibian populations and the disturbing de...

Part autobiography, part philosophical rumination, this evocative conservation odyssey explores the deep affinities between humans and our original...

Stretching from Malibu to the Mexican border, Southern California's coast is justifiably famous, yet, as this essential guide reveals, it offers mo...

This concise, accessible book considers from a biological perspective the controversial issues of our day: abortion, euthanasia, engineered evoluti...

From the pre-Columbian era to the present, native Amazonians have shaped the land around them, emphasizing utilization, conservation, and sustainab...

This book began when Kevin Timoney noticed a suspicious pattern in data reported by the Alberta Energy Regulator. For tens of thousands of spills, ...