Applied ecology

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.

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.

Climate is a soil-forming factor and soil can mitigate climate change through a reduction in the emissions of greenhouse gases and sequestration of atmospheric CO2.

Climate is a soil-forming factor and soil can mitigate climate change through a reduction in the emissions of greenhouse gases and sequestration of atmospheric CO2.

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.

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.

Key features:The first reference book to provide a comprehensive treatment of the biogreography of the Andean regionIncludes lists of the synonyms for each area and examples of the plant and animal taxa characterizing them.

Key features:The first reference book to provide a comprehensive treatment of the biogreography of the Andean regionIncludes lists of the synonyms for each area and examples of the plant and animal taxa characterizing them.

Timber sourcing is shifting from extraction from natural forests to forms of cultivation that are increasingly agricultural in nature.

Timber sourcing is shifting from extraction from natural forests to forms of cultivation that are increasingly agricultural in nature.

Key Features:Provides clear and authoritative recommendations for managing fire in ecological and social contexts Authors are all international leaders in their fields and include not only academics but also leaders of Indigenous communities Explains Indigenous cultural and knowledge systems to a degree that has rarely been accessible to lay and academic readers outside specialized disciplines like AnthropologyResponds to growing need for new approaches to managing human-ecological systems that are in greater sympathy with Australia's natural environments/climate, and value the knowledge of Indigenous people Timely for scholarly and interest groups intervention, as the Australian government is again looking to 'develop the north'Sustainable Land Sector Development in Northern Australia sets out a vision for developing North Australia based on a culturally appropriate and ecologically sustainable land sector economy.

Key Features:Provides clear and authoritative recommendations for managing fire in ecological and social contexts Authors are all international leaders in their fields and include not only academics but also leaders of Indigenous communities Explains Indigenous cultural and knowledge systems to a degree that has rarely been accessible to lay and academic readers outside specialized disciplines like AnthropologyResponds to growing need for new approaches to managing human-ecological systems that are in greater sympathy with Australia's natural environments/climate, and value the knowledge of Indigenous people Timely for scholarly and interest groups intervention, as the Australian government is again looking to 'develop the north'Sustainable Land Sector Development in Northern Australia sets out a vision for developing North Australia based on a culturally appropriate and ecologically sustainable land sector economy.

Soil and Fertilizers: Managing the Environmental Footprint presents strategies to improve soil health by reducing the rate of fertilizer input while maintaining high agronomic yields.

Soil and Fertilizers: Managing the Environmental Footprint presents strategies to improve soil health by reducing the rate of fertilizer input while maintaining high agronomic yields.

The Culture of Nature in the History of Design confronts the dilemma caused by design's pertinent yet precarious position in environmental discourse through interdisciplinary conversations about the design of nature and the nature of design.