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Issues and Perspectives in Landscape Ecologyby John A. Wiens; Michael R. Moss; John Wiens; Lenore Fahrig; Bruce Milne; Peter Dennis; Richard Hobbs; Joan Nassauer
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 63.00Through a series of personal essays by leading landscape ecologists, this book addresses a wide array of past, current, and future issues in landscape ecology. The essays are informative and entertaining and span multiple spectrums, addressing theory and practice, science and application, conservation and utilization, and aquatic and terrestrial systems. more...
Biodiversityby Kevin J. Gaston; John I. Spicer
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2009; US$ 74.95CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD ARTWORK This concise introductory text provides a complete overview of biodiversity - what it is, how it arose, its distribution, why it is important, human impact upon it, and what should be done to maintain it. Timely overview of the serious attempts made to quantify and describe biodiversity in a scientific way Acts as an easy entry point into the primary literature Provides real-world examples of key issues, including illustrations of major temporal and spatial patterns in biodiversity Designed primarily with undergraduate students and course lecturers in mind, it will also be of interest to anyone who requires an overview of, and entry to, the vast literature on these topics. All the figures... more...
Guidelines for Baseline Ecological Assessmentby The Institute of Environmental Assessment
Spon Press 1995; US$ 110.00This book presents the type and level of detail required for describing and evaluating the ecological baseline of an environmental assessment. more...
Securing Democracyby Geoffrey Pridham
Routledge 1990; US$ 170.00Provides the first systematic comparative analysis of Southern Europe's development towards democratic consolidation, looking particularly at Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italy. more...
Geoecologyby Richard Huggett
Routledge 1995; US$ 67.95Presents geo-ecosystems as dynamic entities constantly responding to changes within themselves, their near-surface environments and external influences, both geographical and cosmic. more...
Water Pollution Biologyby P D Abel
CRC Press 1996; US$ 49.95Presents an examination of the scale of water pollution problems, and, through case studies, explores the type of investigations biologists need to undertake in solving them. The text draws comparisons between British and European practice, and includes a brief review of American procedures. more...
Liaisons of Lifeby Tom Wakeford
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2002; US$ 19.95A fascinating exploration of symbiosis at the microscopic level and its radical extension of Darwinism Microbes have long been considered dangerous and disgusting-in short, "scum." But by forming mutually beneficial relationships with nearly every creature, be it alga with animals or zooplankton with zebrafish, microbes have in fact been innovative players in the evolutionary process. Now biologist and award-winning science writer Tom Wakeford shows us this extraordinary process at work. He takes us to such far-flung locales as underwater volcanoes, African termite mounds, the belly of a cow and even the gaps between our teeth, and there introduces us to a microscopic world at turns bizarre, seductive, and frightening, but ever responsible... more...
Community Ecotoxicologyby William H. Clements; Michael C. Newman
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2003; US$ 185.00Ecotoxicology is the study of the effects of toxicants on ecological systems. Ecological effects of contaminants may occur at several levels of biological organisation, from individual organisms to the entire biosphere. Communities consist of interacting populations that overlap in time and space. Thus, community ecotoxicology is concerned with effects of contaminants on communities. This is one of a series of five books that will provide a comprehensive treatment of field ecotoxicology, it provides important insights into how contaminants affect the distribution and abundance of organisms in nature. * Both authors are well known highly respected scientists in the field. * The first book to be dedicated to 'community ecotoxicology.' more...
Environmental Biologyby Allan M. Jones
Routledge 1997; US$ 51.95With balanced coverage of aquatic and terrestrial examples throughout, the text builds logically to present a clear understanding of the fundamental processes of life before examining its more complex components, such as ecosystems. more...
Ecological Effects of Waste Waterby E.B. Welch
Spon Press 1992; US$ 230.00This is a completely revised and update edition of a work first published in 1980 in the USA and deals with the ecological effects of water pollution. It is the result of twenty years of teaching the subject and will be essential reading for all those interested in water quality. more...