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  • Rethinking Bioassessment of Freshwater Ecosystem Health

    by Robert C. Bailey ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book provides the background, knowledge, and tools to model and assess the health of freshwater ecosystems. For more than 100 years, freshwater scientists have used the biota living in an ecosystem to assess the effects of human activity (bioassessment), and in the last 50 years, in jurisdictions around the world, bioassessment of freshwater ecosystems has been embedded in legislation. In the ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Bioassessment of Freshwater Ecosystems

    Using the Reference Condition Approach

    by Robert C. Bailey, Richard H. Norris, Trefor B. Reynoldson ...
    Aquatic ecosystem assessment is a rapidly developing field, and one of the newer approaches to assessing the condition of rivers and lakes is the Reference Condition Approach. This is a significant advancement in biomonitoring because it solves the problem of trying to locate nearby control or reference sites when studying an ecosystem that may be degraded, a problem that bedevils traditional ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    Power, Sex and Tradition

    Edited by Stephen Shennan, James Steele ...
    Human social life is constrained and defined by our cognitive and emotional dispositions, which are the legacy of our foraging ancestors. But how difficult is it to reconstruct the social systems and cultural traditions of those ancestors?The Archaeology of Human Ancestry provides a stimulating and provocative answer, in which archaeologists and biological anthropologists set out and demonstrate ... Read more

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    A leading anthropologist studies the science behind "feeling at home" to show us how home made us humanHome is where the heart is. Security, comfort, even love, are all feelings that are centered on the humble abode. But what if there is more to the feeling of being at home? Neuroanthropologist John S. Allen believes that the human habitat is one of the most important products of human cognitive, ... Read more

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  • Measuring Biological Diversity

    by Anne E. Magurran ...
    This accessible and timely book provides a comprehensive overview of how to measure biodiversity. The book highlights new developments, including innovative approaches to measuring taxonomic distinctness and estimating species richness, and evaluates these alongside traditional methods such as species abundance distributions, and diversity and evenness statistics.Helps the reader quantify and ... Read more

    $94.00 USD

  • 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

  • Second Nature

    Environmental Enrichment for Captive Animals

    Edited by David J. Shepherdson, Jill D. Mellen, Michael Hutchins ...
    Growing recognition of the complexity of animals' physical, social, and psychological lives in the wild has led both zookeepers and the zoo-going public to call for higher environmental standards for animals in captivity.Bringing together the work of animal behaviorists, zoo biologists, and psychologists, Second Nature explores a range of innovative strategies for environmental enrichment in ... Read more

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  • Vegetation Description and Data Analysis

    A Practical Approach

    by Martin Kent ...
    Vegetation Description and Data Analysis: A PracticalApproach, Second Edition is a fully revised and up-datededition of this key text. The book takes account of recent advancesin the field whilst retaining the original reader-friendly approachto the coverage of vegetation description and multivariate analysisin the context of vegetation data and plant ecology.Since the publication of the hugely ... Read more

    $70.00 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

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  • 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

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  • Restoring Wildlife

    Ecological Concepts and Practical Applications

    by Michael L. Morrison ...
    Series series Science Practice Ecological Restoration
    Restoration plans must take into account the needs of current or desired wildlife species in project areas. Restoring Wildlife gives ecologists, restorationists, administrators, and other professionals involved with restoration projects the tools they need to understand essential ecological concepts, helping them to design restoration projects that can improve conditions for native species of ... Read more

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  • Animal Behavior and Wildlife Conservation

    Edited by Marco Festa-Bianchet, Marco Apollonio ...
    Efforts to conserve wildlife populations and preserve biological diversity are often hampered by an inadequate understanding of animal behavior. How do animals react to gaps in forested lands, or to sport hunters? Do individual differences—in age, sex, size, past experience—affect how an animal reacts to a given situation? Differences in individual behavior may determine the success or failure of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD