Biodiversity

This new textbook fills an important niche by offering a lively overview of the principles of ecology for a broad range of university-level science and biology courses.

Forest Pattern and Ecological Process is a major synthesis of 25 years of intensive research about the montane ash forests of Victoria, which support the world's tallest flowering plants and several of Australia's most high profile threatened and/or endangered species.

This engaging volume explores the management of fire in one of the world’s most flammable landscapes: Australia’s tropical savannas, where on average 18% of the landscape is burned annually.

Australia's unique biodiversity is under threat from a rapidly changing climate.

With knowledge from our deserts, Australians can reshape the human story.

In Contested Country, leading researchers in planning, geography, environmental studies and public policy critically review Australia's environmental management under the auspices of the Natural Heritage Trust over the past decade, and identify the challenges that must be met in the national quest for sustainability.

Wetland planting can bring back biodiversity, reduce the impact of drought and flood, improve water quality and conserve beauty in a mismanaged landscape.

For the first time in a single volume, this book brings together more than 150 of the best walks, tracks or trails in Victoria, which can be walked, cycled or driven by the moderately fit individual.

In Ten Commitments: Reshaping the Lucky Country’s Environment, leading environmental thinkers in Australia have written provocative chapters on environmental issues facing the nation.

In Boom and Bust, the authors draw on the natural history of Australia's charismatic birds to explore the relations between fauna, people and environment in a continent where variability is 'normal' and rainfall patterns not always seasonal.

The remote, beautiful and poorly known rainforests of Cape York Peninsula tell a special story about Australia’s historic and present-day connections to New Guinea.

In Ten Commitments: Reshaping the Lucky Country's Environment, leading environmental thinkers in Australia have written provocative chapters on environmental issues facing the nation.

More than 300 species of Australian native animals - mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians - use tree hollows, but there has never been a complete inventory of them.

This book probes the ethical, practical, and sociopolitical implications of leveraging innovative and disruptive means to address the world's various environmental crises.

Whether smashed on toast or hailed as a superfood, the avocado has taken the world by storm, but what are the environmental and social impacts of this trendy fruit?

Whether smashed on toast or hailed as a superfood, the avocado has taken the world by storm, but what are the environmental and social impacts of this trendy fruit?

In the last two decades since publication of the first edition, substantial advancements have been made in the science, the need for transdisciplinary approaches to coral reef protection greater than ever before.

Local participation is increasingly seen as a central and ethical part of environmental research.

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With contributions from a wide range of thematic areas, this book provides a diverse perspective on the contemporary environmental challenges of Brazilian agriculture.

Winner: Western Heritage Book AwardSpur Award FinalistStubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book AwardAmericas Great Plains once possessed one of the grandest wildlife spectacles of the world, equaled only by such places as the Serengeti, the Masai Mara, or the veld of South Africa.

The Caribbean is a global biodiversity hotspot; half its resident bird species are found nowhere else, yet, a quarter are threatened with extinction.

Ecology is one of the most challenging of sciences, with unambiguous knowledge much harder to achieve than it might seem.

Critical examination of participatory biodiversity assessment focusing on lessons for policy makers and planners.

First of its kind and unique in its blend of theoretical and practical approaches for mainstreaming biodiversity in impact assessment.

An overview of relationships between landscape change, habitat fragmentation and biodiversity conservation, using key lessons from the Tumut Fragmentation Study.

First of its kind and unique in its blend of theoretical and practical approaches for mainstreaming biodiversity in impact assessment.

Critical examination of participatory biodiversity assessment focusing on lessons for policy makers and planners.

An examination and evaluation of the problem of various forms of biodiversity loss.

An overview of relationships between landscape change, habitat fragmentation and biodiversity conservation, using key lessons from the Tumut Fragmentation Study.

A study of the fate of plants during the ''great extinction'' 65 million years ago.

First published in 2007, this is a valuable reference book for graduate students, scientists and managers on the sustainable protection of the Malay Archipelago.

This book explores the epistemological and ethical issues at the foundations of environmental philosophy.

A new textbook that advocates a more ecological and process oriented approach to plant sciences.

This book discusses whether, and how, coexistence of people and endangered wildlife may be encouraged.

An introduction to ecological monitoring, providing both a rationale for monitoring and a practical guide to the techniques available.

The current high demand for fish and increased awareness of the role of the environment in supporting human well being has led to a situation where attitudes to inland water resources are changing rapidly.

Plants exhibit forms of asymmetry analogous to "e;handedness"e; in bilaterally symmetrical animals.

Plants exhibit forms of asymmetry analogous to "e;handedness"e; in bilaterally symmetrical animals.

Marine extremes, as they are conceived of in this volume, encompass environments, activities, events and impacts.

Marine extremes, as they are conceived of in this volume, encompass environments, activities, events and impacts.

This book investigates the fundamental role that tropical bioproductivity - or more specifically net primary productivity - has played in shaping the global geographies of food, finance, governance and people.

This book investigates the fundamental role that tropical bioproductivity - or more specifically net primary productivity - has played in shaping the global geographies of food, finance, governance and people.

San Francisco Bay is a shallow estuary surrounded by a large population center.

San Francisco Bay is a shallow estuary surrounded by a large population center.

San Diego Bay is a shallow estuary surrounded by a large population center.

San Diego Bay is a shallow estuary surrounded by a large population center.

The Puget Sound is a complex fjord-estuary system in Washington State that is connected to the Pacific Ocean by the Juan de Fuca Strait and surrounded by several large population centers.

The Puget Sound is a complex fjord-estuary system in Washington State that is connected to the Pacific Ocean by the Juan de Fuca Strait and surrounded by several large population centers.

Ecology of Fire-Dependent Ecosystems is brimming with intriguing ecological stories of how life has evolved with and diversified within the varied fire regimes that are experienced on earth.