Author: N/A Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This innovative volume is the first collective effort by archaeologists and ethnographers to use concepts and models from human behavioral ecology to explore one of the most consequential transitions ...
Author: Coleman, Prof. David C. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In Big Ecology, David C. Coleman documents his historically fruitful ecological collaborations in the early years of studying large ecosystems in the United States. As Coleman explains, the concept of...
Author: Coleman, Prof. David C. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: "A fascinating historical narrative about the unfolding sequence of large ecosystem research programs over the past 40 years. As a player on this stage, Coleman conveys the intimate personalities and ...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The beautiful tropical dry forest of northwest Costa Rica, with its highly seasonal rainfall and diversely vegetated landscape, is disappearing even more rapidly than Costa Rica's better-known rain fo...
Author: Ricketts, Edward F. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Trailblazing marine biologist, visionary conservationist, deep ecology philosopher, Edward F. Ricketts (1897-1948) has reached legendary status in the California mythos. A true polymath and a thinker ...
Author: Cowie,Jonathan Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In recent years climate change has become recognised as the foremost environmental problem of the twenty-first century. Not only will climate change potentially affect the multibillion dollar energy s...
Author: Lund, Jay / Hanak, Ellen / Fleenor, William Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: An ecosystem in freefall, a shrinking water supply for cities and agriculture, an antiquated network of failure-prone levees-this is the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the major hub of California's wat...
Author: Dancer,Daniel Publisher: Trafford Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: From the beluga whale birthing grounds of the Arctic Circle to the Kansas Tallgrass Prairie, environmental artist Daniel Dancer spins enchanting true-life adventure tales as he creates healing art fro...
Author: Sharpsteen, Bill Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Dirty Water is the riveting story of how Howard Bennett, a Los Angeles schoolteacher with a gift for outrageous rhetoric, fought pollution in Santa Monica Bay--and won. The story begins in 1985, when ...
Author: Bolker, Benjamin M. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Ecological Models and Data in R is the first truly practical introduction to modern statistical methods for ecology. In step-by-step detail, the book teaches ecology graduate students and researchers ...
Author: Callenbach, Ernest Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Offering essential environmental wisdom for the twenty-first century, this lively, compact book explains more than sixty basic ecological concepts in an easy-to-use A-to-Z format. From Air and Biodive...
Author: Moss, Brian R. Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This new edition of an established textbook provides a comprehensive and stimulating introduction to rivers, lakes and wetlands, and was written as the basis for a complete course on freshwater ecolog...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Designed as a textbook, this volume is an important, up-to-date, authoritative, and accessible survey in ecology of freshwater and estuarine wetlands. Prominent wetland scholars address the physical e...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Written for researchers and practitioners in environmental pollution, management and ecology, this interdisciplinary account explores the ecological issues associated with industrial pollution to prov...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Inspired by the work of the renowned fisheries scientist Daniel Pauly, this book provides a detailed overview of ecosystem-based management of fisheries. It explores the complex and interdisciplinary ...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Islands have captured the imagination of scientists and the public for centuries-unique and rare environments, their isolation makes them natural laboratories for ecology and evolution. This authorita...
Author: Palmer, Tim Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Award-winning author, naturalist, and conservationist Tim Palmer presents the world of California rivers in this practical and inspiring field guide. Loaded with tips on where to hike, fish, canoe, ka...
Description: Synopsis: Gaia is the gigantic organism that has evolved on Planet Earth. It is the mountains, plains, forests, grasslands, deserts and rivers. It is the climate and ocean currents. It hosts the creat...
Author: Truett, Joe C. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Part autobiography, part philosophical rumination, this evocative conservation odyssey explores the deep affinities between humans and our original habitat: grasslands. In a richly drawn, anecdotally ...
Author: Abdul-Matin, Ibrahim Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "The Earth is a mosque" Muslims are compelled by their religion to praise the Creator and to care for their community. But what is not widely known is that there are deep and long-standing connection...
Author: Abdul-Matin, Ibrahim Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: "The Earth is a mosque." Muslims are compelled by their religion to praise the Creator and to care for their community. But what is not widely known is that there are deep and long-standing connectio...
Author: Sanford, A. Whitney Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The costs of industrial agriculture are astonishing in terms of damage to the environment, human health, animal suffering, and social equity, and the situation demands that we expand our ecological im...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: For more than ten thousand years, Native Americans from Alaska to southern California relied on aquatic animals such as seals, sea lions, and sea otters for food and raw materials. Archaeological rese...
Author: Schowalter, Timothy D. Publisher: Academic Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Dr. Timothy Schowalter has succeeded in creating a unique, updated treatment of insect ecology. This revised and expanded text looks at how insects adapt to environmental conditions while maintaining ...
Author: Scott, Timothy Lee Publisher: Healing Arts Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: ECOLOGY / ALTERNATIVE HEALTH ""I love this book. Brilliant and unique, Tim Scott's new book is about to rock the world of plant enthusiasts. Written for the medical professional, lay person, gardener...
Author: Scott, Timothy Lee Publisher: Healing Arts Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: ECOLOGY / ALTERNATIVE HEALTH ""I love this book. Brilliant and unique, Tim Scott's new book is about to rock the world of plant enthusiasts. Written for the medical professional, lay person, gardener...
Author: Walker, Lawrence R. / Bellingham, Peter Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Islands represent unique opportunities to examine human interaction with the natural environment. They capture the human imagination as remote, vulnerable and exotic, yet there is comparatively little...
Author: Dodds, Walter Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Physics and chemistry are distinguished from biology by the way generalizations are codified into theories tested by observation and experimentation. Some theories have been sufficiently tested to qua...
Author: Kirk, John T. O. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Beginning systematically with the fundamentals, the fully-updated third edition of this popular graduate textbook provides an understanding of all the essential elements of marine optics. It explains ...
Author: Reynolds, Julian / Souty-Grosset, Catherine Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Integrating research into freshwater biodiversity and the role of keystone species, this fascinating book presents freshwater crayfish as representatives of human-exacerbated threats to biodiversity a...
Author: Green, Ms. Dorothy Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Water in California is controlled, stored, delivered, and managed within a complex network of interlocking and cooperating districts and agencies. Unraveling and understanding this system is not easy....
Author: Roach, Catherine M. Publisher: Indiana University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This brief but ambitious book explores our relationship with nature through the imagery we use when we talk about Mother Nature. Employing the critical tools of religious studies, psychology, and gend...
Author: Rubissow Okamoto, Ariel / Wong, Kathleen M. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This complete primer on San Francisco Bay is a multifaceted exploration of an extraordinary, and remarkably resilient, body of water. Bustling with oil tankers, laced with pollutants, and crowded with...
Author: Davidson, Sam / Moseley, Stephen Publisher: Xyzzy Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: New Day Revolution shows readers how small changes in a daily routine can make a big difference. So many people feel they have little time, but if all the busy people in the world knew how to make th...
Author: Sawyer, John O. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Northwestern California is mainly known for its majestic redwood forests and incomparable coastline, but there is much more in its rich biota and scenery. The forests are part of the most diverse temp...
Author: Montgomery, Pam Publisher: Bear & Company Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "This is a profound work. Written with a clarity and depth of understanding that only someone deeply attuned to their subject could master. Pam Montgomery weaves indigenous wisdom, modern research, sc...
Author: Montgomery, Pam Publisher: Bear & Company Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: "This is a profound work. Written with a clarity and depth of understanding that only someone deeply attuned to their subject could master. Pam Montgomery weaves indigenous wisdom, modern research, sc...
Author: Cody, Martin L. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This thorough and meticulous study, the result of nearly a quarter-century of research, examines the island biogeography of plants on continental islands in Barkley Sound, British Columbia. Invaluable...
Author: Shaw, George Publisher: Elsevier Science Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "The Radioactivity in the Environment Series" addresses the key aspects of this socially important and complex interdisciplinary subject. Presented objectively and with the ultimate authority gained f...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: From tiny, burrowing lizards to rainforest canopy-dwellers and giant crocodiles, reptile populations everywhere are changing. Yet government and conservation groups are often forced to make important ...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Serpentine soils have long fascinated biologists for the specialized floras they support and the challenges they pose to plant survival and growth. This volume focuses on what scientists have learned ...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Serpentine soils have long fascinated biologists for the specialized floras they support and the challenges they pose to plant survival and growth. This volume focuses on what scientists have learned ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In a world of increasing demands for biodiversity information, participatory biodiversity assessment and monitoring is becoming more significant. Whilst other books have focused on methods, or links t...
Author: Kricher, John Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The idea of a balance of nature has been a dominant part of Western philosophy since before Aristotle, and it persists in the public imagination and even among some ecologists today. In this lively an...
Author: Bozak, Prof. Nadia Publisher: Rutgers University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Nadia Bozak’s innovative fusion of film studies and environmental studies leads her to make provocative connections between the disappearance of material resources and the emergence of digital m...
Author: Levy, Joel, Publisher: Vision Paperbacks Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Whether it's a tsunami or an asteroid, a terrorist attack or a nuclear war, the end of the world is never far away. But just what are the chances of civilisation being destroyed, and which method of m...
Author: N/A Publisher: Rutgers University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Highlands is the first book to examine the natural and cultural landscape of this four-state (New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut) region, showing how it’s distinctive ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Princeton Guide to Ecology is a concise, authoritative one-volume reference to the field's major subjects and key concepts. Edited by eminent ecologist Simon Levin, with contributions from an inte...
