Plant & Animal Ecology Books

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41. Positive Plant Interactions and Community Dynamics

    Edited by Francisco Pugnaire

    Ever since the concept of the "struggle for life" became the heart of Darwin’s theory of evolution, biologists have studied the relevance of interactions for the natural history and evolution of organisms. Although positive interactions among plants have traditionally received little attention,...

    Published February 8th 2010 by CRC Press
42. The Conversion to Sustainable Agriculture

    Principles, Processes, and Practices

    Edited by Stephen R. Gliessman, Martha Rosemeyer

    Series: Advances in Agroecology

    With all of the environmental and social problems confronting our food systems today, it is apparent that none of the strategies we have relied on in the past?higher-yielding varieties, increased irrigation, inorganic fertilizers, pest damage reduction?can be counted on to come to the rescue. In...

    Published December 20th 2009 by CRC Press
43. Urban Wildlife Management, Second Edition

    By Clark E. Adams, Kieran J. Lindsey

    When the first edition of Urban Wildlife Management was published two years ago, it provided conservationists, ecologists, and wildlife professionals with a welcome shift in the way that interactions between humans and wildlife were viewed and managed. Instead of focusing on ways to evict or...

    Published November 23rd 2009 by CRC Press
44. Bayesian Analysis for Population Ecology

    By Ruth King, Byron Morgan, Olivier Gimenez, Steve Brooks

    Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Interdisciplinary Statistics

    Novel Statistical Tools for Conserving and Managing Populations By gathering information on key demographic parameters, scientists can often predict how populations will develop in the future and relate these parameters to external influences, such as global warming. Because of their ability to...

    Published October 29th 2009 by Chapman and Hall/CRC
45. Fractals and Multifractals in Ecology and Aquatic Science

    By Laurent Seuront

    Ecologists sometimes have a less-than-rigorous background in quantitative methods, yet research within this broad field is becoming increasingly mathematical. Written in a step-by-step fashion, Fractals and Multifractals in Ecology and Aquatic Science provides scientists with a basic understanding...

    Published October 11th 2009 by CRC Press
46. Data Mining for Global Trends in Mountain Biodiversity

    Edited by Eva M. Spehn, Christian Korner

    Thanks to advances in electronic archiving of biodiversity data and the digitization of climate and other geophysical data, a new era in biogeography, functional ecology, and evolutionary ecology has begun. In Data Mining for Global Trends in Mountain Biodiversity, Christian Korner, Eva M. Spehn,...

    Published September 27th 2009 by CRC Press
47. Molluscan Paleontology of the Chesapeake Miocene

    By Edward J. Petuch, Mardie Drolshagen

    The Chesapeake Miocene will always be considered a paleontological treasure. Given the richness and accessibility of the Maryland and Virginia Miocene shell beds, it seems remarkable that very few people have ever described new species from these strata over the past 185 years. Until now....

    Published August 19th 2009 by CRC Press
48. Environmental and Ecological Statistics with R

    By Song S. Qian

    Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Applied Environmental Statistics

    Emphasizing the inductive nature of statistical thinking, Environmental and Ecological Statistics with R connects applied statistics to the environmental and ecological fields. It follows the general approach to solving a statistical modeling problem, covering model specification, parameter...

    Published August 18th 2009 by Chapman and Hall/CRC
49. Spatial Ecology

    Edited by Stephen Cantrell, Chris Cosner, Shigui Ruan

    Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Mathematical & Computational Biology

    Exploring the relationship between mathematics and ecology, Spatial Ecology focuses on some important emerging challenges in the field. These challenges consist of understanding the impact of space on community structure, incorporating the scale and structure of landscapes into mathematical models,...

    Published August 4th 2009 by Chapman and Hall/CRC
50. The Environment

    Science, Issues, and Solutions

    By Mohan K. Wali, Fatih Evrendilek, M. Siobhan Fennessy

    Students have questions, this book has answers: What is the structure and function of natural systems? Where and how do populations and communities live? How have human impacts altered ecosystems? How can we lessen impacts and create long term solutions? Challenging Times Demand Changing...

    Published July 29th 2009 by CRC Press