Environment and Ecology

Written to be accessible to any college-level reader, "Protecting Life on Earth" offers a non-technical, yet comprehensive introduction to the grow...

Environmental aesthetics is an emerging field of study that focuses on nature's aesthetic value as well as on its ethical and environmental implica...

In October of 2007 scientists from Ecuador, Peru, and the United States conducted a rapid inventory of the Reserva de Produccion Faunistica Cuyaben...

A moose frustrates commuters by wandering onto the highway; a cougar stalks his prey through suburban backyards; an alligator suns himself in a str...

Gasoline prices are high and rapidly climbing. Oil and natural gas reserves are dwindling, while demand is poised to skyrocket, as developing natio...

Following the publication of C. S. Holling's seminal work on the relationship between animal body mass patterns and scale-specific landscape struct...

Donald R. Prothero's science books combine leading research with first-person narratives of discovery, injecting warmth and familiarity into a prof...

Mercury pollution and contamination are widespread, well documented, and continue to pose a public health concern in both developed and developing ...

Shorebirds are model organisms for illustrating the principles of ecology and excellent subjects for research. Their mating systems are as diverse ...

Environmental aesthetics is an emerging field of study that focuses on nature's aesthetic value as well as on its ethical and environmental implica...

Our politics is intimately linked to the environmental conditions - and crises - of our time. The challenges of sustainability and the discovery of...

For the first time in history, humans have exceeded the sustaining capacity of Earth's global ecosystems. Our expanding footprint has tremendous mo...

Covering a large swath of the American West, the Great Basin, centered in Nevada and including parts of California, Utah, and Oregon, is named for ...

Following the publication of C. S. Holling's seminal work on the relationship between animal body mass patterns and scale-specific landscape struct...

A compelling story of place, "Steward's Fork" explores northwest California's magnificent Klamath Mountains - a region that boasts a remarkable bio...

With glaciers melting, oceans growing more acidic, species dying out, and catastrophic events like Hurricane Katrina ever more probable, strong ste...

A revolutionary new theory and call to action on animal rights, ethics, and law from the renowned philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum.Animals are in tro...

How and why have Americans living at particular times and places used and transformed their environment? How have political systems dealt with conf...

By studying the many ways diverse peoples have changed, shaped, and conserved the natural world over time, environmental historians provide insight...

Wild Profusion tells the fascinating story of biodiversity conservation in Indonesia in the decade culminating in the great fires of 1997-98--a tim...

FUNDAMENTALS OF WATER SECURITY Understand How to Manage Water Resources to Equitably Meet Both Human and Ecological Needs Burgeoning populations an...

Drawing a completely new road map toward a sustainable future, Jack M. Hollander contends that our most critical environmental problem is global po...

This beautifully written and deeply personal collection of essays paints a progressive view of the American West as seen by a geologist. Ellen Wohl...

What is a natural forest disturbance? How well do we understand natural forest disturbances and how might we emulate them in forest management? Wha...