Ecological science, the Biosphere

To understand modern principles of sustainable management and the conservation of wildlife species requires intimate knowledge about demography, animal behavior, and ecosystem dynamics.

To understand modern principles of sustainable management and the conservation of wildlife species requires intimate knowledge about demography, animal behavior, and ecosystem dynamics.

In North America, concepts of Historical Range of Variability are being employed in land-management planning for properties of private organizations and multiple government agencies.

In North America, concepts of Historical Range of Variability are being employed in land-management planning for properties of private organizations and multiple government agencies.

Part of the Zoological Society of London's Conservation Science and Practice Series, Applied Population and Community Ecology evaluates theory in population and community ecology using a case study of feral pigs, birds and plants in the high country of south-eastern Australia.

Part of the Zoological Society of London's Conservation Science and Practice Series, Applied Population and Community Ecology evaluates theory in population and community ecology using a case study of feral pigs, birds and plants in the high country of south-eastern Australia.

Dunes is the first book in over a decade to incorporate the latest research in this active and fast-developing field.

Dunes is the first book in over a decade to incorporate the latest research in this active and fast-developing field.

Laurens Baas Becking was a pioneer in the field of microbial ecology and the father of Geobiology.

Laurens Baas Becking was a pioneer in the field of microbial ecology and the father of Geobiology.

Sir Arthur Tansley was the leading figure in ecology for the first half of the 20th century, founding the field, and forming its first professional societies.

Sir Arthur Tansley was the leading figure in ecology for the first half of the 20th century, founding the field, and forming its first professional societies.

THE EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGIES THAT SHAPE ECOSYSTEMS In 1837 a young Charles Darwin took his notebook, wrote I think , and then sketched a rudimentary, stick-like tree.

THE EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGIES THAT SHAPE ECOSYSTEMS In 1837 a young Charles Darwin took his notebook, wrote I think , and then sketched a rudimentary, stick-like tree.

This book explains the ecology of viruses by examining their interactive dynamics with their hosting species (in this volume, in animals), including the types of transmission cycles that viruses have evolved encompassing principal and alternate hosts, vehicles and vectoring species.

This book explains the ecology of viruses by examining their interactive dynamics with their hosting species (in this volume, in animals), including the types of transmission cycles that viruses have evolved encompassing principal and alternate hosts, vehicles and vectoring species.

This book explains the ecology of viruses by examining their interactive dynamics with their hosting species (in this volume, in microbes and plants), including the types of transmission cycles that viruses have evolved encompassing principal and alternate hosts, vehicles, and vectoring species.

This book explains the ecology of viruses by examining their interactive dynamics with their hosting species (in this volume, in microbes and plants), including the types of transmission cycles that viruses have evolved encompassing principal and alternate hosts, vehicles, and vectoring species.

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.

'Our relationship with nature has changed .

One of today's most accomplished biologists and gifted storytellers reveals the rules that regulate all lifeHow does life work?

A groundbreaking approach to scale and scaling in ecological theory and practiceScale is one of the most important concepts in ecology, yet researchers often find it difficult to find ecological systems that lend themselves to its study.

One of today's most accomplished biologists and gifted storytellers reveals the rules that regulate all lifeHow does life work?

A fun and fact-filled AZ treasury for anyone with a head on their shouldersNeuropedia journeys into the mysteries and marvels of the three pounds of tissue between your earsthe brain.

How magicians exploit the natural functioning of our brains to astonish and amaze usHow do magicians make us see the impossible?

A look at the extraordinary ways the brain turns thoughts into actions-and how this shapes our everyday livesWhy is it hard to text and drive at the same time?

A thrilling tour of the sea's most extreme species, coauthored by one of the world's leading marine scientistsThe ocean teems with life that thrives under difficult situations in unusual environments.

A revolutionary new framework that draws on insights from ecology for the design and analysis of long-duration robotsRobots are increasingly leaving the confines of laboratories, warehouses, and manufacturing facilities, venturing into agriculture and other settings where they must operate in uncertain conditions over long timescales.

The story of a neural impulse and what it reveals about how our brains workWe see the last cookie in the box and think, can I take that?

A how-to book on an exhilarating outdoor activity and a unique meditation on the pleasures of the natural worldFollowing the Wild Bees is a delightful foray into the pastime of bee hunting, an exhilarating outdoor activity that used to be practiced widely but which few people know about today.

Leading ecologists discuss some of the most compelling open questions in the field todayUnsolved Problems in Ecology brings together many of the world's leading ecologists to discuss the most fundamental research questions confronting the field today.

Ecologists traditionally regard time as part of the background against which ecological interactions play out.

What neurobiology and artificial intelligence tell us about how the brain builds itself How does a neural network become a brain?

Everything the first time fish-keeper needs to know to set up a tank.

What The Lord of the Rings is to fantasy, Dune is to science fiction.

What The Lord of the Rings is to fantasy, Dune is to science fiction.

What The Lord of the Rings is to fantasy, Dune is to science fiction.

A thrilling tour of the sea's most extreme species, coauthored by one of the world's leading marine scientistsThe ocean teems with life that thrives under difficult situations in unusual environments.

The growth of the environmental sciences has greatly expanded the scope of biological disciplines today's engineers have to deal with.

Issues of scale have become increasingly important to ecologists.

Many ecological phenomena may be modelled using apparently random processes involving space (and possibly time).

This carefully structured laboratory manual explores, by means of computer simulations, the key areas of population dynamics through time.

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

This book explores the links between bushmeat and livelihoods in Africa, with a focus on the human dimension of the debate.

The distinctive relationships between landscape change, habitat fragmentation, and biodiversity conservation are highlighted in this original and useful guide to the theory and practice of ecological landscape design.

This book highlights new and emerging uses of stable isotope analysis in a variety of ecological disciplines.

This comprehensive text focuses on the increasingly important issues of urban geochemical mapping with key coverage of the distribution and behaviour of chemicals and compounds in the urban environment.

The bestselling reference on environmental microbiology now in a new edition This is the long-awaited and much-anticipated revision of the bestselling text and reference.