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“michael g brasher”

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  • Migrating and Wintering Waterfowl

    Edited by Bart M. Ballard, Michael G. Brasher, Joseph P. Fleskes ...
    This book explores the remarkable journeys that ducks, geese, and swans undertake each year in search of suitable migratory stopover and wintering habitats. It delves into the seasonal challenges that dictate the lives of waterfowl, highlighting their mobility, evolved behaviors, and nutritional strategies that allow them to be successful in an ever-changing world. The narrative combines ... Read more

    $103.99 USD

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  • Marine Conservation Biology

    The Science of Maintaining the Sea's Biodiversity

    by Marine Conservation Biology Institute ...
    Humans are terrestrial animals, and our capacity to see and understand the importance and vulnerability of life in the sea has trailed our growing ability to harm it. While conservation biologists are working to address environmental problems humans have created on land, loss of marine biodiversity, including extinctions and habitat degradation, has received much less attention. At the same time, ... Read more

    $48.29 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

  • Shorebird Ecology, Conservation, and Management

    by Dr. Mark A. Colwell ...
    Shorebirds are model organisms for illustrating the principles of ecology and excellent subjects for research. Their mating systems are as diverse as any avian group, their migrations push the limits of endurance, and their foraging is easily studied in the open habitats of estuaries and freshwater wetlands. This comprehensive text explores the ecology, conservation, and management of these ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • Urban Raptors

    Ecology and Conservation of Birds of Prey in Cities

    Edited by Clint W. Boal, Cheryl R. Dykstra ...
    Raptors are an unusual success story of wildness thriving in the heart of our cities—they have developed substantial populations around the world in recent decades. But there are deeper issues around how these birds make their urban homes. New research provides insight into the role of raptors as vital members of the urban ecosystem and future opportunities for protection, management, and ... Read more

    $68.39 USD

  • Conservation of Freshwater Fishes

    Edited by Gerard P. Closs, Martin Krkosek, Julian D. Olden ...
    Series Book 20 - Conservation Biology
    Freshwater fish are one of the most diverse groups of vertebrates, but are also amongst the most threatened. With contributions from leaders in the field, this is the first assessment of the global state of freshwater fish diversity, synthesising the opportunities, challenges and barriers facing the conservation of freshwater fish biodiversity. The book includes the first global assessment of the ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Birds and Habitat

    Relationships in Changing Landscapes

    Edited by Robert J. Fuller ...
    Series series Ecological Reviews
    The successful conservation of bird species relies upon our understanding of their habitat use and requirements. In the coming decades the importance of such knowledge will only grow as climate change, the development of new energy sources and the needs of a growing human population intensify the, already significant, pressure on the habitats that birds depend on. Drawing on valuable recent ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • Sea Otter Conservation

    Edited by James L. Bodkin, Glenn R VanBlaricom, Shawn Larson ...
    Sea otters are good indicators of ocean health. In addition, they are a keystone species, offering a stabilizing effect on ecosystem, controlling sea urchin populations that would otherwise inflict damage to kelp forest ecosystems. The kelp forest ecosystem is crucial for marine organisms and contains coastal erosion. With the concerns about the imperiled status of sea otter populations in ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • New Perspectives in Ornithology

    21st Century Dispatches across the World of Birds

    Edited by Scott V. Edwards, J. Michael Reed ...
    People have been long-fascinated with birds, and their scientific study has been central to advances in evolution, animal behavior, biogeography, population dynamics, and community ecology. Research questions in these fields have been driven in part by innovations in technology. Ornithologists even 20 years ago could scarcely imagine the detail and precision with which we can now monitor bird ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Marine Ecology

    Concepts and Applications

    by Martin R. Speight, Peter A. Henderson ...
    This book began life as a series of lectures given to second and third year undergraduates at Oxford University. These lectures were designed to give students insights as to how marine ecosystems functioned, how they were being affected by natural and human interventions, and how we might be able to conserve them and manage them sustainably for the good of people, both recreationally and ... Read more

    $103.00 USD

  • Silent Shores

    Population Trend of Migrant Birds & Conservation Issues of Habitat

    by KM Aarif, P K Prasadan ...
    The main objective of bringing out a book of this sort is to popularize the story of transcontinental migrant shorebirds visiting the West Coast region of India. The book focuses mainly on two major issues (on the basis of thorough scientific study): 1. The shorebirds are ecological indicators of wetland health on a global scale. It is a matter of serious international conservation concern that ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Small Carnivores

    Evolution, Ecology, Behaviour and Conservation

    by Emmanuel Do Linh San, Jun J. Sato, Jerrold L. Belant, Michael J. Somers ...
    Small Carnivores: Evolution, Ecology, Behaviour, and ConservationThis book focuses on the 232 species of the mammalian Order Carnivora with an average body mass < 21.5 kg. Small carnivores inhabit virtually all of the Earth's ecosystems, adopting terrestrial, semi-fossorial, (semi-)arboreal or (semi-)aquatic lifestyles. They occupy multiple trophic levels and therefore play important roles in the ... Read more

    $87.00 USD