Applied Ecology

A richly illustrated field guide to all of Africa’s major habitats—packed with invaluable information to help you understand these habitats and the...

In our busy, noisy world, we may find ourselves longing for silence, but what is silence exactly?  Is it the total absence of sound?  Or is it the ...

As our world becomes increasingly urbanized, an understanding of the context, mechanisms, and consequences of city and suburban environments become...

“This collection feels medicinal and miraculous all at once. . . This is not just ‘nature writing.’ This is cosmic writing.”—Robert Moor, bestselli...

In A Resonant Ecology, Max Ritts traces how sound’s integration into the environmental politics of Canada’s North Coast has paved the way for massi...

This book addresses present-day landscapes, ecosystem functioning and biodiversity as legacies of the past. It implements an interdisciplinary appr...

The story of humanity’s evolving relationship with the natural world from pre-history to the present day Nature has long been the source of human c...

Failing Forward documents the global rise of neoliberal conservation as a response to biodiversity loss and unpacks how this approach has managed t...

This is the largest seaweed, giant kelp (Macrocystis) is the fastest growing and most prolific of all plants found on earth. Growing from the seafl...

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Discourse about water and power in the modern era have lar...

The Sierra Nevada, California’s iconic mountain range, harbors thousands of remote high-elevations lakes from which water flows to sustain agricult...

A powerful analysis and call to action that reveals disability as one of the defining features of environmental devastation and resistance. Deep be...

So much of what we know of clean water, clean air, and now a stable climate rests on how fossil fuels first disrupted them. Negative Ecologies is a...

Off the Pacific coast of South America, nutrients mingle with cool waters rising from the ocean’s depths, creating one of the world’s most producti...

Serpentine soils have long fascinated biologists for the specialized floras they support and the challenges they pose to plant survival and growth....

Laguna Lake, the largest lake in the Philippines, supplies Manila's dense urban region with fish and water while operating as a sink for its stormf...

Laguna Lake, the largest lake in the Philippines, supplies Manila's dense urban region with fish and water while operating as a sink for its stormf...