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, ...

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, ...

A gripping tale of exploration, the pursuit of ice-age records, scientific invention and controversy, and revelations about the great Amazon forest...

In the late nineteenth century, humans came at long last to a devastating realization: their rapidly industrializing and globalizing societies were...

A 2019 Prose Award Finalist What is the role of literary studies in an age of Twitter threads and viral news? If the study of literature today is...

Foundations of Tropical Forest Biology presents a timely collection of pioneering work in the study of these diverse and fascinating ecosystems. Mo...

The paleoecological history of the Americas is as complex as the region is broad: stretching from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego, the New Wo...

"Foundations of Tropical Forest Biology" presents a timely collection of pioneering work in the study of these diverse and fascinating ecosystems. ...

The authors in this book argue that our dedication to maintaining beautiful lawns is contributing to the serious environmental problems facing the ...

'Nature' is a deceptively simple and ahistorical term, suggesting intrinsic, unchanging reality. Yet nature has a history too, both in terms of hum...

'Nature' is a deceptively simple and ahistorical term, suggesting intrinsic, unchanging reality. Yet nature has a history too, both in terms of hum...