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“patrick e mcguire”

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  • Biodiversity in Agriculture

    Domestication, Evolution, and Sustainability

    Edited by Paul Gepts, Thomas R. Famula, Robert L. Bettinger, Stephen B. Brush, Ardeshir B. Damania, Patrick E. McGuire, Calvin O. Qualset ...
    The introduction of plant and animal agriculture represents one of the most important milestones in human evolution. It contributed to the development of cities, alphabets, new technologies, and ultimately to civilizations, but it has also presented a threat to both human health and the environment. Bringing together research from a range of fields including anthropology, archaeology, ecology, ... Read more

    $75.49 USD

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  • The Action Plan for Australian Mammals 2012

    by Andrew Burbidge, Peter Harrison, John Woinarski ...
    The Action Plan for Australian Mammals 2012 is the first review to assess the conservation status of all Australian mammals. It complements The Action Plan for Australian Birds 2010 (Garnett et al. 2011, CSIRO Publishing), and although the number of Australian mammal taxa is marginally fewer than for birds, the proportion of endemic, extinct and threatened mammal taxa is far greater. These ... Read more

    $85.99 USD

  • A Less Green and Pleasant Land

    Our Threatened Wildlife

    by Norman Maclean ...
    Disentangling the facts from the hype, this 'Domesday book' of the British and Irish countryside offers a definitive and up-to-date survey of the state of our wildlife today. Norman Maclean, editor of the bestselling Silent Summer, examines the latest findings of Britain and Ireland's top wildlife experts and interprets them for a wider audience. Each chapter provides reliable estimates of animal ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Predictive Species and Habitat Modeling in Landscape Ecology

    Concepts and Applications

    Edited by C. Ashton Drew, Falk Huettmann, Yolanda F. Wiersma ...
    Most projects in Landscape Ecology, at some point, define a species-habitat association. These models are inherently spatial, dealing with landscapes and their configurations. Whether coding behavioral rules for dispersal of simulated organisms through simulated landscapes, or designing the sampling extent of field surveys and experiments in real landscapes, landscape ecologists must make ... Read more

    $215.99 USD

  • Reducing the Impacts of Development on Wildlife

    by James Gleeson, Deborah Gleeson ...
    The rapidly increasing number of threatened flora and fauna species worldwide is one of the chief problems confronting environmental professionals today. This problem is largely due to the impact humans have had on land use through development (e.g. agricultural, residential, industrial, infrastructure and mining developments). The requirement for developers to implement measures to reduce the ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Flammable Australia

    Fire Regimes, Biodiversity and Ecosystems in a Changing World

    Edited by Richard J Williams, A Malcolm Gill, Ross A Bradstock ...
    In Flammable Australia: Fire Regimes, Biodiversity and Ecosystems in a Changing World, leading researchers in fire ecology and management discuss how fire regimes have shaped and will continue to shape the distribution and abundance of Australia’s highly diverse plants and animals. Central to this is the exploration of the concept of the fire regime – the cumulative pattern of fires and their ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Booderee National Park

    The Jewel of Jervis Bay

    by David Lindenmayer, Christopher MacGregor, Nick Dexter, Martin Fortescue, Esther Beaton ...
    Booderee National Park at Jervis Bay, 200km south of Sydney, attracts over 450 000 visitors each year. The park has many special features, including dramatic wave cut platforms and sea caves, some of the whitest beach sands in Australia, and very high densities of native predators such as the Powerful Owl and the Diamond Python. This book outlines the biology and ecology of Booderee National Park. ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Sources, Sinks and Sustainability

    Edited by Jianguo Liu, Vanessa Hull, Anita T. Morzillo, John A. Wiens ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Landscape Ecology
    Source-sink theories provide a simple yet powerful framework for understanding how the patterns, processes and dynamics of ecological systems vary and interact over space and time. Integrating multiple research fields, including population biology and landscape ecology, this book presents the latest advances in source-sink theories, methods and applications in the conservation and management of ... Read more

    $68.09 USD

  • What Makes a Good Farm for Wildlife?

    by David B Lindenmayer ...
    This book brings together extensive scientific learning on what makes a good farm for biodiversity. Based on thirteen years of intensive research, it breaks the discussion into chapters on key environmental and vegetation assets and then discusses how to make these assets better for biodiversity. The work encompasses information on vertebrates and invertebrates on farms and their relationships ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Silent Summer

    The State of Wildlife in Britain and Ireland

    Edited by Norman Maclean ...
    Over the past 20 years dramatic declines have taken place in UK insect populations. Eventually, such declines must have knock-on effects for other animals, especially high profile groups such as birds and mammals. This authoritative, yet accessible account details the current state of the wildlife in Britain and Ireland and offers an insight into the outlook for the future. Written by a team of ... Read more

    $58.29 USD

  • Landslide Ecology

    by Lawrence R. Walker, Aaron B. Shiels ...
    Series series Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation
    Despite their often dangerous and unpredictable nature, landslides provide fascinating templates for studying how soil organisms, plants and animals respond to such destruction. The emerging field of landslide ecology helps us understand these responses, aiding slope stabilisation and restoration and contributing to the progress made in geological approaches to landslide prediction and mitigation. ... Read more

    $62.39 USD

  • Conserving Africa's Mega-Diversity in the Anthropocene

    The Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park Story

    Edited by Joris P. G. M. Cromsigt, Sally Archibald, Norman Owen-Smith ...
    Series series Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation
    Centring on South Africa's Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park, this book synthesizes a century of insights from the ecology and conservation management of one of Africa's oldest protected wildlife areas. The park provides important lessons for conservation management, as it has maintained conservation values rivalling those of much larger parks sometimes through, and sometimes despite, strong management ... Read more

    $57.39 USD