Applied Ecology

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...

A Primer of Ecological Statistics, Second Edition explains fundamental material in probability theory, experimental design, and parameter estimatio...

The earth''s sustainable development is threatened by the energy exhaustion and rising atmospheric concentrations of CO2 linked to global warming. ...

Recent advances in molecular genetics and genomics have been embraced by many in natural resource conservation. Today, several major conservation a...

Christianity is often accused of asserting humanity's dominion over nature - an attitude that has led to so much environmental destruction - an...

During the twentieth century, ecology evolved from a collection of natural history facts to a rigorous, analytical discipline with a rich body of t...