Applied Ecology

Grassland ecosystems are deeply affected by human activities and need appropriate management to optimise trade-offs between ecosystem functions and...

How destructive or beneficial are forest fires to wildlife? Should we be trying to reduce or increase the amount of fire in forests? How are forest...

Aldo Leopold: A Fierce Green Fire (OUP; 1999) remains the only biography for the general public on Leopold. It was praised for being concise and re...

The landscape of the Sonoran Desert Region varies dramatically from parched desert lowlands to semiarid tropical forests and frigid subalpine meado...

The late Navjot Sodhi conceived this book as a way of bringing to the forefront of our conservation planning for the tropics the views of people wh...

Tide and Current chronicles ten years in the life of author and artist Carol Araki Wyban, during which she lived with, learned about, and came to l...

17 of the country's prominent bush experts share there knowledge about conservation and management of the Bushveld, its geology and soil, veld and ...

Change the story and change the future - merging science and Indigenous knowledge to steer us towards a more benign Anthropocene In Changing Tides...

We live in a complex and dynamic world. Understanding how to monitor, manage and conserve species and habitats - the goal of applied ecology - is o...

The Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. What we are facing is not only an environmental crisis, but a geological revolution of human o...

Fisheries supply a critically important ecosystem service by providing over three billion people with nearly 20% of their daily animal protein inta...

Over the past decade, ecologists have increasingly embraced phylogenetics, the study of evolutionary relationships among species. As a result, they...

Presenting new approaches to studying food webs, this book uses practical management and policy examples to demonstrate the theory behind ecosystem...

In 1948, just weeks before his best friend, marine biologist Ed Ricketts died, John Steinbeck wrote of Ricketts process of discovery, noting that a...

Community ecology has undergone a transformation in recent years, from a discipline largely focused on processes occurring within a local area to a...

A twelve-month excursion through nature''s seasons as recounted by a lifetime naturalist In this personal encyclopedia of nature''s seasons, life...

An evocative social history of Europe's peatlands, moors, bogs and heaths. Donald S. Murray spent much of his childhood either playing or working ...

How do you record the wildlife in a wood? This book explains ways to record the flora and fauna found in woodland and outlines the sources you can ...

Graph theory can be applied to ecological questions in many ways, and more insights can be gained by expanding the range of graph theoretical conce...

The biennial series of conferences on Ecosystems and Sustainable Development (ECOSUD), originating from the work of the late Nobel laureate, Ilya P...