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Ecological Consequences of Artificial Night Lighting
While certain ecological problems associated with artificial night lighting are widely known-for instance, the disorientation of sea turtle hatchlings by beachfront lighting-the vast range of influences on all types of animals and plants is only …
The Endangered Species ACT at Thirty Volume 1: Renewing the Conservation Promise
The Endangered Species Act at Thirty is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary review of issues surrounding the Endangered Species Act, with a specific focus on the act's actual implementation record over the past thirty years. The result of a unique,…
A Practitioner's Guide to Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation
Practitioner's Guide to Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation brings together knowledge and experience from conservation practitioners and experts around the world to help readers understand the global challenge of conserving biodiversity in …
Conservation Through Cultural Survival: Indigenous Peoples and Protected Areas
For more than a century the establishment of national parks and protected areas was a major threat to the survival of indigenous people. The creation of parks based on wilderness ideals outlawed traditional ways of life and forced from their …
Designing Field Studies for Biodiversity Conservation
From The Nature Conservancy comes this essential handbook for staff and researchers working with conservation institutions or projects worldwide, and for students and professionals in field ecology, wildlife biology, and related areas. Tables, …
The Great Barrier Reef: Finding the Right Balance
Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-256) and index.
Natural Connections: Perspectives in Community-Based Conservation
Both realism and justice demand that efforts to conserve biological diversity address human needs as well. The most promising hope of accomplishing such a goal lies in locally based conservation efforts — an approach that seeks ways to make local …
Tigerland and Other Unintended Destinations
Readers are invited to follow Dinerstein's unlikely journey to conservation's frontiers, from early research in Nepal to recent expeditions as head of Conservation Science at the World Wildlife Fund, from being swept downstream on an elephant's …
Measures of Success: Designing, Monitoring, and Managing Conservation and Development Projects
"Measures of Success" is a practical, hands-on guide to community-oriented conservation and development projects that presents a simple yet comprehensive approach to improving the focus, effectiveness, and efficiency of projects. The only work of …
The Ghosts of Evolution Nonsensical Fruit, Missing Partners, and Other Ecological Anachronisms
new vision is sweeping through ecological science: The dense web of dependencies that makes up an ecosystem has gained an added dimension-the dimension of time. Every field, forest, and park is full of living organisms adapted for relationships …
Environmental Conflict in Alaska
Environmental Conflict in Alaska presents a detailed yet readable account of the salient environmental controversies of Alaska's statehood period. As "the last frontier", Alaska lured unusually fervent devotees of the exploitation ethic who …
Conservation of the Black-Tailed Prairie Dog: Saving North America's Western Grasslands
Prairie dogs and the grassland habitat in which they play a key ecological role have declined precipitously over the past two centuries. The current number of prairie dogs is believed to be less than 2 percent of the number encountered by Lewis …
The Tallgrass Restoration Handbook: For Prairies, Savannas, and Woodlands
The Tallgrass Restoration Handbook is a hands-on manual that provides a detailed account of what has been learned about the art and science of prairie restoration and the application of that knowledge to restoration projects throughout the world. …
The Murray: A River and Its People
The Murray River is in crisis and faces an uncertain future. This evocative book explores the reasons why the river has become degraded and what these changes have meant to the Australians. This in-depth study of the Murray River examines the …