Applied Ecology

For readers of The Sixth Extinction, a manifesto for meaningfully confronting our role in climate change and committing to sustainable, eco-friendl...

Mushrooms are having a moment. [A] natural sequel for the many readers who enjoyed Merlin Sheldrakes Entangled Life.Library Journal  If you enjoye...

In the last 200 years, Iowas prairies and other wildlands have been transformed into vast agricultural fields. This massive conversion has provided...

Back in the 1980s nature conservation was regarded as largely a rural issue concerned with the preservation of a dwindling series of unspoiled sect...

Bonobos have captured the public imagination in recent years, due not least to their famously active sex lives. Less well known is the fact that th...

Often spoken at the end of a prayer, a well-known Sioux phrase affirms that we are all related. Similarly, the Sioux medicine man, Brave Buffalo, c...

The Chicago metropolitan area is home to far more protected nature than most people realize. Over half a million acres of protected land known as t...

This book is about the global environmental and economic crisis. It challenges the whole global economic system and its underlying beliefs, assumpt...

An ecologist's investigation of the social lives of butterfliesThroughout his career, Henry Horn took a unique approach to the study of butterflies...