Conservation of the environment

Coral reefs are among Earth's most diverse, productive, and beautiful ecosystems, but until recently, their ecology and the means to manage them have been poorly understood and documented.

The black rhino is nature's tank, feared by all animals.

In Aldo Leopold and an Ecological Conscience ecologists, wildlife biologists, and other professional conservationists explore the ecological legacy of Aldo Leopold and his A Sand County Almanac and his contributions to the environmental movement, the philosophy of science, and natural resource management.

Conservation medicine is an emerging discipline, focussing on the intersection of ecosystem health, animal health, and human health.

This book describes the biodiversity and biogeography of nothern Mexico, documents the biological importance of regional ecosystems and the impacts of human land use on the conservation status of plants and wildlife.

Can we prevent the destruction of the world's tropical forests?

This book offers a powerful response to what Varner calls the "e;two dogmas of environmental ethics"e;--the assumptions that animal rights philosophies and anthropocentric views are each antithetical to sound environmental policy.

Molecular techniques are proving invaluable in determining the phylogenetic status of potentially endangered species, for investigating mechanisms of speciation, and for measuring the genetic structure of populations.

Mono Lake is one of the largest lakes in California, and Californians have been using it, enjoying it, and abusing it since nomadic northern Paiutes began hunting the lake's vast bird populations.

A beautiful, urgent and personal exploration of bogs and the role they must play in saving our planet - for fans of Otherlands and The Last Rainforests of Britain Longlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2025 'A fascinating, impassioned invitation into the hidden mystery of bogs' - OLIVIA LAING, author of The Garden Against Time'Enchanting .

A history of scientific ideas about extinction that explains why we learned to value diversity as a precious resource at the same time as we learned to "e;think catastrophically"e; about extinction.

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Coral reefs are among the most beautiful, and most diverse, of ecosystems.

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Coral reefs are among the most beautiful, and most diverse, of ecosystems.

The global loss of biodiversity is occurring at an unprecedented pace.

The deep ocean is by far the planet's largest biome and holds a wealth of potential natural assets.

Conservation physiology is a rapidly expanding, multidisciplinary field that utilizes physiological knowledge and tools to understand and solve conservation challenges.

News headlines would often have us believe that conservationists are inevitably locked in conflict with the people who live and work on the lands they seek to protect.

Life histories can be defined as the means by which individuals (or more precisely genotypes) vary their age- or stage-specific expenditures of reproductive effort in response to genetic, phenotypic, and environmental correlates of survival and fecundity.

Over the last two decades, the scientific and popular media have been bombarded by gloom and doom stories of the future of fisheries, the status of fish stocks, and the impact of fishing on marine ecosystems.

Beavers are represented by two extant species, the Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) and the North American beaver (Castor canadensis); each has played a significant role in human history and dominated wetland ecology in the northern hemisphere.

Since the first edition of this book published in 2005, there has been an immense amount of new and fascinating work on the history, ecology, and evolution of the Mediterranean flora.

Urban Evolutionary Biology fills an important knowledge gap on wild organismal evolution in the urban environment, whilst offering a novel exploration of the fast-growing new field of evolutionary research.

The identification and analysis of the particular habitat needs of a species has always been a central focus of research and applied conservation in both ecology and wildlife biology.

Emerging infectious diseases pose an increasingly serious threat to a number of endangered or sensitive species and are increasingly recognized as one of the major factors driving species extinction.

Once the exclusive prerogative of domaine reserve, landscape has gained increasing importance in international law in recent years.

Once the exclusive prerogative of domaine reserve, landscape has gained increasing importance in international law in recent years.

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The Arctic is demanding global attention.

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The Arctic is demanding global attention.

The second edition of this widely cited textbook continues to provide a concise but comprehensive introduction to cave and subterranean biology, describing this fascinating habitat and its biodiversity.

Most people are familiar with the dodo and the dinosaur, but extinction has occurred throughout the history of life, with the result that nearly all the species that have ever existed are now extinct.

Most people are familiar with the dodo and the dinosaur, but extinction has occurred throughout the history of life, with the result that nearly all the species that have ever existed are now extinct.

This novel text assembles some of the most intriguing voices in modern conservation biology.

Marine sediments dominate the global seabed, creating the largest ecosystem on earth.

This authoritative dictionary provides over 9,000 entries on scientific and social aspects of the environment-its key thinkers, treaties, movements, organizations, concepts, and theories.

Social-ecological challenges call for a far better integration of the social sciences into conservation training and practice.

This Handbook is the first comprehensive account of comparative environmental law.

This Handbook is the first comprehensive account of comparative environmental law.

South Africa's fynbos region has intrigued biologists for centuries.

South Africa's fynbos region has intrigued biologists for centuries.

Mutualisms, interactions between two species that benefit both of them, have long captured the public imagination.

Mutualisms, interactions between two species that benefit both of them, have long captured the public imagination.

In Green Equilibrium, Christopher Wills explains the rules by which ecosystems maintain a diversity of interdependent species, in particular the balance of predators and prey.

In Green Equilibrium, Christopher Wills explains the rules by which ecosystems maintain a diversity of interdependent species, in particular the balance of predators and prey.

The field of plant population ecology has advanced considerably in the last decade since the first edition was published.

The field of plant population ecology has advanced considerably in the last decade since the first edition was published.

'I envy no body but him, and him only, that catches more fish than I do.

'I envy no body but him, and him only, that catches more fish than I do.

Dogs are the world's most common and widespread carnivores and are nearly ubiquitous across the globe.

Dogs are the world's most common and widespread carnivores and are nearly ubiquitous across the globe.

The biological composition and richness of most of the Earth's major ecosystems are being dramatically and irreversibly transformed by anthropogenic activity.