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  • Environmental Consequences and Management of Coastal Industries

    Terms and Concepts

    by Michael Elliott, Andrew Wither ...
    Series Book 3 - Estuarine and Coastal Sciences Series
    Environmental Consequences and Management of Coastal Industries: Terms and Concepts covers the engineering, natural and social sciences aspects related to coastal power plants and their operation and management. The book gives background to featured problems and solutions, making it relevant to power plants in all global situations and giving practitioners what they need to assess environmental ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Texans on the Brink

    Threatened and Endangered Animals

    by David Ford, Jeremy D. Maikoetter, Timothy H. Bonner, Chad W Hargrave, David S. Ruppel, Nicky M. Hahn, Robert J. Edwards, Paige Najvar, William Godwin, Mary Jones, David J. Berg, Ned E. Strenth, Jerry L. Cook, Benjamin T. Hutchins, Anthony A. Echelle, Alice F. Echelle, J. Curtis Creighton, D. Craig Rudolph, Josh Pierce, Loren K. Ammerman, Christopher E. Comer, Michael E. Tewes, Julia Buck, Mary Kay Skoruppa, Kim Withers, Andrew C. Kasner, John Karges, Timothy Brush, Clifford E. Shackelford, Heather A. Mathewson, David Cimprich, James M Mueller, Robert Allen, Karl Berg, Philip Matich, Donna J. Shaver, Mary M Streitch, Bernd Würsig, Dr. Neil B. Ford ...
    Series series Integrative Natural History Series, sponsored by Texas Research Institute for Environmental Studies, Sam Houston State University
    What good is a rattlesnake? What purpose do animals serve? All species play a vital role in their biological communities, and the removal of just one can have a noticeable and catastrophic ripple effect.Yet social and political pressures frequently pit species conservation against economic progress and prosperity, and scientists fear that we may be in the midst of a mass extinction event. Brian R. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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    by Lee Hannah ...
    Climate change biology is a new discipline, born of the recognition that human-induced climate change is resulting in wholesale shifts in the distributions of species and the timing of biological events. The evidence for biological upheaval in response to climate change is immense. Migratory species are arriving earlier in the year. Flowers are blooming earlier. Ranges of plants, mammals and ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Corridor Ecology, Second Edition

    Linking Landscapes for Biodiversity Conservation and Climate Adaptation

    by Jodi A. Hilty, Annika T.H. Keeley, William Z. Lidicker Jr., Adina M. Merenlender ...
    Migrating wildlife species across the globe face a dire predicament as their traditional migratory routes are cut off by human encroachment. Forced into smaller and smaller patches of habitat, they must compete more aggressively for dwindling food resources and territory. This is more than just an unfortunate side effect of human progress. As key species populations dwindle, ecosystems are losing ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • Marine Biodiversity Conservation

    A Practical Approach

    by Keith Hiscock ...
    Series series Earthscan Oceans
    Effective marine biodiversity conservation is dependent upon a clear scientific rationale for practical interventions. This book is intended to provide knowledge and tools for marine conservation practitioners and to identify issues and mechanisms for upper-level undergraduate and Masters students. It also provides sound guidance for marine biology field course work and professionals.The main ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The GEO Handbook on Biodiversity Observation Networks

    Edited by Michele Walters, Robert J. Scholes ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Biodiversity observation systems are almost everywhere inadequate to meet local, national and international (treaty) obligations. As a result of alarmingly rapid declines in biodiversity in the modern era, there is a strong, worldwide desire to upgrade our monitoring systems, but little clarity on what is actually needed and how it can be assembled from the elements which are already present. This ... Read more

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  • Introduction to the Practice of Fishery Science, Revised Edition

    Revised Edition

    by William F. Royce ...
    Revised and updated, Royce's Introduction to the Practice of Fishery Science is a classic text. With a new chapter on aquaculture, this book provides the background for a first course in fishery science. Intentionally focused on the practical and professional requirements of careers in the management and maintenance of fisheries, this text will be useful to students as well as to established ... Read more

    $65.69 USD

  • Wildlife and Wind Farms - Conflicts and Solutions

    Onshore: Potential Effects

    Edited by Martin Perrow ...
    Series Book 1 - Wildlife and Wind Farms
    Wind farms are an essential component of global renewable energy policy and the action to limit the effects of climate change. There is, however, considerable concern over the impacts of wind farms on wildlife, leading to a wide range of research and monitoring studies, a growing body of literature and several international conferences on the topic.This unique multi-volume work provides a ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

  • Aquaculture Perspective of Multi-Use Sites in the Open Ocean

    The Untapped Potential for Marine Resources in the Anthropocene

    Edited by Bela H. Buck, Richard Langan ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This volume addresses the potential for combining large-scale marine aquaculture of macroalgae, molluscs, crustaceans, and finfish, with offshore structures, primarily those associated with energy production, such as wind turbines and oil-drilling platforms. The volume offers a comprehensive overview and includes chapters on policy, science, ... Read more

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  • Stream Hydrology

    An Introduction for Ecologists

    by Nancy D. Gordon, Thomas A. McMahon, Brian L. Finlayson, Christopher J. Gippel, Rory J. Nathan ...
    Since the publication of the first edition (1994) there have been rapid developments in the application of hydrology, geomorphology and ecology to stream management. In particular, growth has occurred in the areas of stream rehabilitation and the evaluation of environmental flow needs. The concept of stream health has been adopted as a way of assessing stream resources and setting management goals ... Read more

    $89.00 USD

  • Bird Ecology and Conservation

    A Handbook of Techniques

    by William J. Sutherland, Ian Newton, Rhys Green ...
    Series Book 1 - Techniques in Ecology & Conservation
    The aim of this book is to outline the main methods and techniques available to ornithologists. A general shortage of information about available techniques is greatly hindering progress in avian ecology and conservation. Currently this sort of information is disparate and difficult to locate with much of it widely dispersed in books, journals and grey literature. Sutherland and his editorial team ... Read more

    $59.39 USD

  • The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index

    by Nathalie Pettorelli ...
    There has been a recent surge of interest in remote sensing and its use in ecology and conservation but this is the first book to focus explicitly on the NDVI (Normalised Difference Vegetation Index), a simple numerical indicator and powerful tool that can be used to assess spatio-temporal changes in green vegetation. The NDVI opens the possibility of addressing questions on scales inaccessible to ... Read more

    $100.79 USD