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Ecology

  • Advances in ecological researchby Michael Begon; Alastair Fitter; A MacFadyen

    Elsevier Science 1990; US$ 213.00

    Volume 20 of this series deals with a variety of plant and animal ecology topics.**Despite much recent work on herbivory, little attention has been given to insect herbivores active below ground. Brown and Gange describe the ecological adaptations of insects to this abundant but poor quality food resource, and the responses of plants to this potentially... more...

  • Advances in ecological researchby M. Begon; Alastair H. Fitter; E.D. Ford

    Elsevier Science 1989; US$ 213.00

    Volume 19 in this prestigious series is the second under the new editorial team and benefits once again from their own special interests. The scope of this volume is wide, spanning aspects of plant/insect interactions and arthropod population dynamics to palaeobotany, the evolution of photosynthesis, and marine community ecology. Of particular topical... more...

  • Advances in ecological researchby Michael Begon; Alastair Fitter; A MacFadyen

    Elsevier Science 1991; US$ 213.00

    This volume contains five papers dealing with a wide range of plant, animal, and soil biological topics. Gray and his colleagues describe the origin and spread of the salt marsh grass Spartina anglica. The result of a hybridization at the close of the last century, this genetically uniform species has been extremely successful in its particular niche... more...

  • Advances in ecological researchby Alastair H. Fitter; Dave G. Raffaelli

    Elsevier Science 1999; US$ 213.00

    This volume contains papers highlighting the diverse interests of modern ecologists. Areas covered range from modeling terrestrial carbon exchange and storage to the relationship between animal abundance and body size. Other papers address the free-air carbon dioxide enrichment in global change research; generalist predators, interaction strength,... more...

  • Advances in ecological researchby A. MacFayden; E. D. Ford

    Elsevier Science 1982; US$ 213.00

    Advances in Ecological Research , first published in 1962, is one of Academic Press's most successful and prestigious series. In 1999, the Institute for Scientific Information released figures showing that the serial has an Impact Factor of 9.6, with a half life of 10.0 years, placing it 1st in the highly competitive category of Ecology. The Editors... more...

  • Algal Chemical Ecologyby Charles D. Amsler

    Springer 2007; US$ 79.99

    Devoted to the chemical ecology of algae, this title covers both marine and freshwater habitats and various types of algae, from seaweeds to phytoplankton. It elucidates the roles of chemical defenses in various regions and habitats, DMSP, oxidative burst responses, and herbivore offense. more...

  • Algal Ecologyby R. Jan Stevenson; Max L. Bothwell; Rex L. Lowe; James H. Thorp

    Elsevier Science 1996; US$ 185.00

    Algae are an important component of aquatic benthic ecosystems because they reflect the health of their environment through their density, abundance, and diversity. This comprehensive and authoritative text is divided into three sections to offer complete coverage of the discussion in this field. The first section introduces the locations of benthic... more...

  • American Bisonby Dale F. Lott; Harry W. Greene

    University of California Press 2002; US$ 15.95

    American Bison combines the latest scientific information and one man's personal experience in an homage to one of the most magnificent animals to have roamed America's vast, vanished grasslands. Dale F. Lott, a distinguished behavioral ecologist who was born on the National Bison Range and has studied the buffalo for many years, relates what is... more...

  • Applied Ecology and Natural Resource Managementby Guy R. McPherson; Stephen DeStefano

    Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 46.00

    The science of ecology and the practice of resource management are critical to our understanding of the Earth's ecosystems and our efforts to conserve them. This book focuses on the discipline of plant ecology as a foundation for vegetation and wildlife management and is aimed at natural resource managers and students. more...

  • Biodiversity in Environmental Assessmentby Roel Slootweg; Asha Rajvanshi; Vinod B. Mathur; Arend Kolhoff

    Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 54.00

    First of its kind and unique in its blend of theoretical and practical approaches for mainstreaming biodiversity in impact assessment. more...