Fundamentals of Ecosystem Science

Author: Kathleen C. Weathers
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0128127635
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 360

Book Description
Fundamentals of Ecosystem Science, Second Edition provides a comprehensive introduction to modern ecosystem science covering land, freshwater and marine ecosystems. Featuring full color images to support learning and written by a group of experts, this updated edition covers major concepts of ecosystem science, biogeochemistry, and energetics. Case studies of important environmental problems offer personal insights into how adopting an ecosystem approach has helped solve important intellectual and practical problems. For those choosing to use the book in a classroom environment, or who want to enrich further their reading experience, teaching and learning assets are available at Elsevier.com. - Covers both aquatic (freshwater and marine) and terrestrial ecosystems with updated information - Includes a new chapter on microbial biogeochemistry - Features vignettes throughout the book with real examples of how an ecosystem approach has led to important change in policy, management, and ecological understanding - Demonstrates the application of an ecosystem approach in synthesis chapters and case studies - Contains new coverage of human-environment interactions

Fundamentals of Ecosystem Science

Author: Kathleen C. Weathers
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0080916805
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 323

Book Description
Fundamentals of Ecosystem Science provides a compact and comprehensive introduction to modern ecosystem science. This book covers major concepts of ecosystem science, biogeochemistry, and energetics. It addresses, contrasts, and compares both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. It combines general lessons, concepts, frameworks, and challenges in highly accessible synthesis chapters. It presents firsthand case studies, written by leaders in the field, offering personal insights into how adopting an ecosystem approach led to innovations, new understanding, management changes, and policy solutions. This book is ideal for advanced undergraduate and graduate students who have had a general biology course, but not further training in ecosystems as well as researchers and professionals in ecology and environmental sciences. - Addresses, contrasts, and compares both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems - Combines general lessons, concepts, frameworks, and challenges in highly accessible synthesis chapters - Presents firsthand case studies, written by leaders in the field, offering personal insights into how adopting an ecosystem approach led to innovations, new understanding, management changes, and policy solutions

Fundamentals of Soil Ecology

Author: David C. Coleman
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0121797260
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 404

Book Description
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Principles of Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology

Author: F Stuart Chapin III
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387216634
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 449

Book Description
Features review questions at the end of each chapter; Includes suggestions for recommended reading; Provides a glossary of ecological terms; Has a wide audience as a textbook for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students and as a reference for practicing scientists from a wide array of disciplines

Big Ecology

Author: David C. Coleman
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520264754
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 248

Book 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 politics while still offering insightful and objective evaluations. Interwoven throughout the story is a remarkably detailed textbook of ecosystem science from then until today."--Paul G. Risser, University of Oklahoma

Fundamentals of Ecology

Author: Eugene Pleasants Odum
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 576

Book Description

Foundations of Restoration Ecology

Author: Society for Ecological Restoration International
Publisher: Island Press
ISBN: 1610916972
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 580

Book Description
"Society for Ecological Restoration"--Cover.

Principles of Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology

Author: F Stuart Chapin III
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1441995048
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 536

Fundamentals of Conservation Biology

Author: Malcolm L. Hunter, Jr.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444308971
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 516

Book Description
In the new edition of this highly successful book, Malcolm Hunter and new co-author James Gibbs offer a thorough introduction to the fascinating and important field of conservation biology, focusing on what can be done to maintain biodiversity through management of ecosystems and populations. Starting with a succinct look at conservation and biodiversity, this book progresses to contend with some of the subject's most complex topics, such as mass extinctions, ecosystem degradation, and over exploitation. Discusses social, political, and economic aspects of conservation biology. Thoroughly revised with over six hundred new references and web links to many of the organizations involved in conservation biology, striking photographs and maps. Artwork from the book is available to instructors online at www.blackwellpublishing.com/hunter and by request on CD-ROM.

Understanding Urban Ecosystems

Author: Alan R. Berkowitz
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 038722615X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 547

Book Description
Nowhere on Earth is the challenge for ecological understanding greater, and yet more urgent, than in those parts of the globe where human activity is most intense - cities. People need to understand how cities work as ecological systems so they can take control of the vital links between human actions and environmental quality, and work for an ecologically and economically sustainable future. An ecosystem approach integrates biological, physical and social factors and embraces historical and geographical dimensions, providing our best hope for coping with the complexity of cities. This book is a first of its kind effort to bring together leaders in the biological, physical and social dimensions of urban ecosystem research with leading education researchers, administrators and practitioners, to show how an understanding of urban ecosystems is vital for urban dwellers to grasp the fundamentals of ecological and environmental science, and to understand their own environment.