Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
Soil Geography of the USA
A Diagnostic-Horizon Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Since 1980, our understanding of the factors and processes governing the distribution of soils on the Earth’s surface has increased dramatically, as have the techniques for studying soil patterns. The approach used in this book relies on the National Resources Conservation Service databases to...
International Wildlife Trade
A Cites Sourcebook
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
For more than two decades, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, known as CITES, has been one of the largest and meffective conservation agreements in the world. By regulating international commerce in certain species -- from African elephants and exotic...
Private Property and the Endangered Species Act
Saving Habitats, Protecting Homes
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Our whole nation benefits from the preservation of natural habitats and their diversity of animal and plant species—yet small groups of private landowners often bear most of the costs of setting land aside for conservation purposes. This imbalance has generated many conflicts since the passage of...
Palaeobiology of Middle Paleozoic Marine Brachiopods
A Case Study of Extinct Organisms in Classical Paleontology
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Fossil species appear to persist morphologically unchanged for long intervals of geologic time, punctuated by short bursts of rapid change as explained by the Ecological Evolutionary Units (EEUs). Here, morphological variation in Paleozoic atrypide morphology at the subfamily level (Atrypinae and...
Tropical Wetland Management
The South-American Pantanal and the International Experience
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Recent scientific development and politico-institutional experiences related to the conservation of the South-American Pantanal are explored in this book in relation to what is happening in other tropical wetland areas of international importance such as the Everglades in North America and the Okavango...
by Ralph Steadman, Ceri Levy
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Following on from Extinct Boids and Nextinction, Critical Critters is the third in this epic trilogy of books dedicated to extinct and critically endangered animals from cartoonist Ralph Steadman and film-maker Ceri Levy - the GONZOVATIONISTS.
Expect plenty more of what made the first two books...
The World's Water 2004-2005
The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
The quality and availability of fresh water are of critical importance to human and ecosystem health. Given its central role in the functioning of all living systems, water is arguably the mimportant of all natural resources.
Produced biennially, The World's Water provides a timely examination...
Marine Protists
Diversity and Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
This comprehensive book provides a unique overview of advances in the biology and ecology of marine protists. Nowadays marine protistology is a hot spot in science to disclose life phenomena using the latest techniques. Although many protistological textbooks deal with the cytology, genetics, ecology,...
The Florida Manatee
Biology and Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Much of what we know about manatee biology and behavior has been learned in the years after they were first declared an endangered species in 1967. Roger Reep and Robert Bonde have been at the forefront of manatee research for more than two decades. The Florida Manatee offers an engaging, accessible...
The Rainforests of West Africa
Ecology — Threats — Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Nowhere eise in the world did industrialized countries leave such early marks in the rainforest as in West Africa. Past and present developments here are in one way or the other significant for rainforests on other continents as weil. West Africa is a pioneer in both a good and a bad sense. This is...
Marsh Mud and Mummichogs
An Intimate Natural History of Coastal Georgia
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
“This book,” writes marine biologist Evelyn B. Sherr, “is meant to give others an understanding of the fascinating life of the region, from the smallest creatures in marsh mud and estuarine water, to the mummichogs and multitudes of other animals that find food and shelter in the vast expanses...
by Brian R. Chapman, Eric G. Bolen
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
From two veteran ecologists comes a new and sweeping exploration of the natural history of Texas in all its biological diversity and geological variation. Few states, if any, can match Texas for its myriad species, past and present, and its many distinctive landscapes, from prairie grasslands and...
Reviving Lakes and Wetlands in People's Republic of China, Volume 3
Best Practices and Prospects for the Sanjiang Plain Wetlands
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
The Sanjiang Plain wetlands are among the most important wetlands in the People’s Republic of China with unique habitats, species, and ecology. There is a considerable body of literature devoted to various aspects of the Sanjiang Plain wetlands including their ecological values. Building on lessons...
Attracting Birds in the Texas Hill Country
A Guide to Land Stewardship
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
After years of working with landowners, land managers, naturalists, county officials, and others about wildlife management and land stewardship for birds in the Texas Hill Country, biologist Rufus Stephens and educator Jan Wrede teamed up to write a practical guidebook on how to improve habitat for...