Applied Ecology

Bonnie K. Baxter explains the trophic structure of Great Salt Lake food chains and resulting impacts from recent years of a shrinking lake and corr...

How mega-dams, industrial agriculture, and other developments challenge ecosystem resilienceIs environmental degradation an inevitable result of ec...

Some 40 million miles of roadways encircle the earth, but we tend to regard them only as infrastructure for human convenience. In Crossings, Ben Go...

While politicians, entrepreneurs, and even school children could tell you that sustainability is an important and nearly universal value, many of t...

By 2025, China will have built fifteen new supercities each with 25 million inhabitants. It will have created 250 Eco-cities' as well: clean, green...

The third edition of The Ecology and Silviculture of Oaks is an updated and expanded edition that explores oak forests as responsive ecosystems. Ne...

This major reference is an overview of the current state of theoretical ecology through a series of topical entries centered on both ecological and...

Insect Conservation: A Global Synthesis is a landmark, field-defining work written by Professor Michael Samways, one of the founding fathers of thi...

Insect Conservation: A Global Synthesis is a landmark, field-defining work written by Professor Michael Samways, one of the founding fathers of thi...

Floods, fires, famines, epidemics and disasters of all kinds are on the increase, and as their frequency rises so does the call for greater resilie...

Bees are our most loyal ally. These fascinating, enigmatic creatures are a key lynchpin in the working of our planet. Without them the landscape, a...

Flowers have played an important role in human culture and survival for thousands of years. The final products of flowersfruits and seedsare vitall...

Much has changed with Iowas wildlife in the years 1990 to 2020. Some species such as Canada goose, wild turkey, and white-tailed deer that once wer...

Biogeography is the study of geographic variation in all characteristics of life - ranging from genetic, morphological and behavioural variation am...

Africa's environmental history and the complex interactions between humans and their environment have been insufficiently explored, leading to a si...

Popular among students for its engaging, accessible style, this text provides an authoritative overview of Latin America's human geography as well ...

That Which Roots Us is a work of natural and environmental history that explores the origins of and resolutions to some of our environmental proble...

Examines how pastoral peoples imagine, or even design, their futures under the pressure of changing environments and large-scale government project...

Examines how pastoral peoples imagine, or even design, their futures under the pressure of changing environments and large-scale government project...

**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**'To read it is ... to experience how freedom might feel' Oliver Burkeman'The visionary author of How to Do Nothing...

The concept of community, in all its diverse definitions and manifestations, provides a unique approach to learn more about how groups of individua...

The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) study is a major international initiative drawing attention to local, national and global econo...

An authoritative, marvelously illustrated field guide to the velvet ants of North AmericaVelvet Ants of North America is a beautiful photographic g...