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Regolith Science
CSIRO Publishing 2009; US$ 130.00A comprehensive reference on regolith geoscience for geology, geography and soil science graduates. more...
Tree Faller's Manual
CSIRO Publishing 2011; US$ 24.95Covers risk assessment, theory and techniques for manual tree-felling. more...
Hydropedology
Elsevier Science 2012; US$ 125.00Hydropedology is a microcosm for what is happening in Soil Science. Once a staid discipline found in schools of agriculture devoted to increasing crop yield, soil science is transforming itself into an interdisciplinary mulch with great significance not only for food production but also climate change, ecology, preservation of natural resources, forestry,... more...
Soil Essentials
Landlinks Press 2008; US$ 44.95A practical reference for farmers and land managers covering soil issues commonly encountered at the farm level. more...
Burning Issues
CSIRO Publishing 2011; US$ 49.95The role of fire in Australia's ecosystems, and how to manage fire both for safety and for diversity. more...
The Embattled Wilderness
University of Georgia Press 2013; US$ 24.95Robinson Forest in eastern Kentucky is one of our most important natural landscapesand one of the most threatened. Covering fourteen thousand acres of some of the most diverse forest region in temperate North America, it is a haven of biological richness within an ever-expanding desert created by mountaintop removal mining. Written by two people... more...
Environmental Effects of Afforestation in North-Western Europe
Springer 2007; US$ 199.99This book sets out a series of techniques that have been developed to estimate the environmental impact of afforestation. It offers guidelines and decision support systems (DSS) to enable national and international policy makers as well as forest managers to maximize the benefits and minimize the adverse effects of afforestation. This book summarizes... more...
Forest Trees
Springer 2007; US$ 239.99Forest trees cover one third of the global land surface, constitute many ecosystems, and play a pivotal role in the world economy. This volume details Populus trees, pines, Fagaceae trees, eucalypts, spruces, Douglas fir and black walnut, and offers a first-ever detailed review of Cryptomeria japonica. It thoroughly discusses innovative strategies... more...
The Ecology of Soil Decomposition
CABI 2003; US$ 135.00Describing trophic interactions between species that carry out the decomposition of organic matter in the soil, this title addresses the key topics of functional groups, spatial stratification and succession patterns over time, involving bacteria, protists, fungi and micro-invertebrates. more...
Designing Green Landscapes
Springer 2008; US$ 189.99Von Gadow and Pukkala??'s unique, Designing Green Landscapes, presents the latest thinking in adaptive management for forest ecosystems. Based on the ???multiple path??? principle, this approach links species choice and silvicultural methods with changing demands and changing environmental conditions, to ensure continuous adaptation, often several... more...









