Applied ecology

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

Brings together viewpoints from leading ecologists and evolutionary biologists to discuss how speciation affects patterns of biological diversity.

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

This book identifies restoration strategies for beach and dune conservation and discusses ways to educate and involve stakeholders.

This book is bulging with promising land patterns for students, planners, conservationists and policy makers.

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

An expanded and improved edition of an established text reflecting recent developments in zooarchaeology.

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 friendly 2007 guide to mathematical modelling for evolutionary and behavioural ecologists.

A researcher and graduate student reference on benthic foraminifera and climate in Earth and Environmental Sciences, first published in 2006.

This book was the first in-depth description and analysis of the European Emissions Trading Scheme.

A 2007 reference on geomorphological studies on reefs for researchers and graduate students in geomorphology and oceanography.

An accessible text describing how to use Bayesian methods of statistical analysis in ecology.

First published in 2006, this book identifies the need for changes to human-created institutions responsible for natural resource management.

Provides a working knowledge of sustainable business development and its key methods and techniques.

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

Presents evidence to contradict the assumption of the ''balance of nature''.

The dynamic nature of current research into soil biodiversity is reflected in this excellent volume.

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.

This Handbook, first published in 2005, provides standard procedures for planning and conducting a survey of any species or habitat and for evaluating the data.

A series of essays which address a wide array of past, current, and future issues in landscape ecology.

An overview of the wide range of spatial statistics available to analyse ecological data.

Essential reading for undergraduate students of conservation biology and living natural resource management.

Merges forefront research from different disciplines into a common framework for new insights on sustainability.

This book focuses on the discipline of plant ecology as a foundation for vegetation and wildlife management.

This 2003 book examines ecological recovery following natural and human-induced disturbances.

Originally published in 1999, this book was the first to synthesise ecological studies of this unique southern African region.

This 1998 book is a lucid discussion of statistical and sampling techniques of relevance to field biologists.

This collaborative work is the first to link landscape ecology with natural resource management.

A research-level investigation of the relationship between forests and their host soils and climate.

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.

Ecologists and environmental managers rely on mathematical models, both to understand ecological systems and to predict future system behavior.

This book explains ways that ecological science can be applied to solving some of the most crucial problems facing our world today.

This book explores the possibility that life exists on Mars.

The classic reference on weeds and invasive plants has been revised and updated.

The title provides an overview of the current knowledge about the diversity of the living world and the various problems associated with its conservation and sustainable use.

Reducing environmental hazard and human impact on different ecosystems, with special emphasis on rural landscapes is the main topic of different environmental policies designed in developed countries and needed in most developing countries.

Fundamentals of Ecological Modelling: Applications in Environmental Management and Research, Fourth Edition, provides a comprehensive discussion of the fundamental principles of ecological modeling.

This book focuses on Constructability, a project management tool and its effectiveness in promotion of sustainable development and architecture.

This book focuses on Constructability, a project management tool and its effectiveness in promotion of sustainable development and architecture.

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.

Environmental scientist and writer Haydn Washington argues that we will not solve the environmental crisis unless we change our worldview and ethics, and to do so we must rejuvenate our sense of wonder at nature.

Environmental scientist and writer Haydn Washington argues that we will not solve the environmental crisis unless we change our worldview and ethics, and to do so we must rejuvenate our sense of wonder at nature.

For thousands of years humans have experimented with various methods of waste disposal-from burning and burying to simply packing up and moving in search of an unscathed environment.

For thousands of years humans have experimented with various methods of waste disposal-from burning and burying to simply packing up and moving in search of an unscathed environment.