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  • Spatial Optimization in Ecological Applications

    by John Hof, Michael Bevers ...
    Series series Complexity in Ecological Systems
    Whether discussing habitat placement for the northern spotted owl or black-tailed prairie dog or strategies for controlling exotic pests, this book explains how capturing ecological relationships across a landscape with pragmatic optimization models can be applied to real world problems. Using linear programming, Hof and Bevers show how it is possible for the researcher to include many thousands ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • From the Pleistocene to the Holocene

    Human Organization and Cultural Transformations in Prehistoric North America

    by C. Britt Bousman, Bradley J. Vierra, James M Adovasio, Charlotte Beck, Michael Bever, John Carpenter, Kurt W. Carr, James C. Chatters, Michael J. Dilley0, Boyce Driskell1, Richard T. Fitzgerald2, Steven Hackenberger3, Margaret A. Jodry4, George T. Jones5, Marvin Kay6, Mary Lou Larson7, Scott C. Meeks8, Eric Oksanen9, Anna M. Prentiss0, Jeffrey S. Rosenthal1, Guadalupe Sanchez2, M. Steven Shackley3, Sarah C. Sherwood4, Jayne-Leigh Thomas5 ...
    Series Book 17 - Texas A&M University Anthropology Series
    The end of the Pleistocene era brought dramatic environmental changes to small bands of humans living in North America: changes that affected subsistence, mobility, demography, technology, and social relations. The transition they made from Paleoindian (Pleistocene) to Archaic (Early Holocene) societies represents the first major cultural shift that took place solely in the Americas. This event ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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  • Geomorphic Analysis of River Systems

    An Approach to Reading the Landscape

    by Kirstie A. Fryirs, Gary J. Brierley ...
    Filling a niche in the geomorphology teaching market, this introductory book is built around a 12 week course in fluvial geomorphology.‘Reading the landscape’ entails making sense of what a riverscape looks like, how it works, how it has evolved over time, and how alterations to one part of a catchment may have secondary consequences elsewhere, over different timeframes. These place-based field ... Read more

    $83.00 USD

  • Stratigraphic Paleobiology

    Understanding the Distribution of Fossil Taxa in Time and Space

    by Mark E. Patzkowsky, Steven M. Holland ...
    Whether the fossil record should be read at face value or whether it presents a distorted view of the history of life is an argument seemingly as old as many fossils themselves. In the late 1700s, Georges Cuvier argued for a literal interpretation, but in the early 1800s, Charles Lyell's gradualist view of the earth's history required a more nuanced interpretation of that same record. To this day, ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Conservation of Wildlife Populations

    Demography, Genetics, and Management

    by L. Scott Mills ...
    Population ecology has matured to a sophisticated science with astonishing potential for contributing solutions to wildlife conservation and management challenges. And yet, much of the applied power of wildlife population ecology remains untapped because its broad sweep across disparate subfields has been isolated in specialized texts. In this book, L. Scott Mills covers the full spectrum of ... Read more

    $76.00 USD

  • Collective Animal Behavior

    by David J. T. Sumpter ...
    Fish travel in schools, birds migrate in flocks, honeybees swarm, and ants build trails. How and why do these collective behaviors occur? Exploring how coordinated group patterns emerge from individual interactions, Collective Animal Behavior reveals why animals produce group behaviors and examines their evolution across a range of species.Providing a synthesis of mathematical modeling, ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Water Quality Indices

    by Tabassum Abbasi, S. A. Abbasi ...
    This book covers water quality indices (WQI) in depth – it describes what purpose they serve, how they are generated, what are their strengths and weaknesses, and how to make the best use of them. It is a concise and unique guide to WQIs for chemists, chemical/environmental engineers and government officials. Whereas it is easy to express the quantity of water, it is very difficult to express its ... Read more

    $117.89 USD

  • Forest Management and Planning

    by Pete Bettinger, Kevin Boston, Jacek P. Siry, Donald L. Grebner ...
    Forest Management and Planning provides a focused understanding of contemporary forest management issues through real life examples to engage students. The methodology for the development of quantitatively-derived forest management plans – from gathering information to the implementation of plans at the forest level – are clearly explained. Emphasis is placed on the development of traditional ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Handbook of Applied Hydrology, Second Edition

    by Vijay P. Singh ...
    Fully Updated Hydrology Principles, Methods, and ApplicationsThoroughly revised for the first time in 50 years, this industry-standard resource features chapter contributions from a “who’s who” of international hydrology experts. Compiled by a colleague of the late Dr. Chow, Chow’s Handbook of Applied Hydrology, Second Edition, covers scientific and engineering fundamentals and presents all-new ... Read more

    $161.19 USD

  • Mapping Species Distributions

    Spatial Inference and Prediction

    by Janet Franklin ...
    Series series Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation
    Maps of species' distributions or habitat suitability are required for many aspects of environmental research, resource management and conservation planning. These include biodiversity assessment, reserve design, habitat management and restoration, species and habitat conservation plans and predicting the effects of environmental change on species and ecosystems. The proliferation of methods and ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Phylogenetics

    Theory and Practice of Phylogenetic Systematics

    by E. O. Wiley, Bruce S. Lieberman ...
    The long-awaited revision of the industry standard on phylogeneticsSince the publication of the first edition of this landmark volume more than twenty-five years ago, phylogenetic systematics has taken its place as the dominant paradigm of systematic biology. It has profoundly influenced the way scientists study evolution, and has seen many theoretical and technical advances as the field has ... Read more

    $98.00 USD

  • Introduction to Population Ecology

    by Larry L. Rockwood ...
    Introduction to Population Ecology, 2nd Edition is a comprehensive textbook covering all aspects of population ecology. It uses a wide variety of field and laboratory examples, botanical to zoological, from the tropics to the tundra, to illustrate the fundamental laws of population ecology. Controversies in population ecology are brought fully up to date in this edition, with many brand new and ... Read more

    $86.00 USD