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Assessment of Species Diversity in the Atlantic Maritime Ecozone
Author | : Donald F. McAlpine |
Publisher | : NRC Research Press |
Total Pages | : 802 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0660198355 |
Survey of Threatened and Endangered Wetland and Aquatic Plants at Four Corps of Engineers Districts
Author | : Linda S. Nelson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Aquatic plants |
ISBN | : |
The Condor's Shadow
Author | : David S. Wilcove |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2000-05-09 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0385498810 |
With gripping narrative power, The Condor's Shadow traces the ways in which human greed and ignorance have wreaked havoc on our ecological landscape. The heir apparent to Peter Matthiessen's 1959 classic Wildlife in America, The Condor's Shadow is a brilliant and compulsively readable study of the state of North American wildlife and what is being done to reverse the damage humans have caused. With equal respect for the smallest feather-mite and the fiercest grizzly, the frailest flower and the stateliest redwood, David S. Wilcove illustrates--in jargon-free, often witty prose--nature's delicate system of checks and balances, examining the factors that determine a species' vulnerability and the consequences of losing even the tiniest part of any ecosystem. An examination of both the heart-wrenching failures and stunning successes of our conservation efforts, The Condor's Shadow chronicles the destruction and resilience of our American wilderness and offers an insightful, eloquent overview that will appeal to avid conservationists and recreational nature-lovers alike.
Forest Service Roadless Area Conservation
Author | : United States. Forest Service |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Conservation of natural resources |
ISBN | : |
Vertebrate Biology
Author | : Donald W. Linzey |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 602 |
Release | : 2012-02-13 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1421400405 |
Arranged logically to follow the typical course format, Vertebrate Biology leaves students with a full understanding of the unique structure, function, and living patterns of the subphylum that includes our own species.
Biosphere 2000
Author | : Donald G. Kaufman |
Publisher | : Kendall Hunt |
Total Pages | : 708 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780787257132 |
Global Change Ecosystems Research
Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 61 |
Release | : 2001-01-19 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0309071488 |
Research Council established the Ecosystems Panel in response to a request from the United States Global Change Research Program (USGCRP). The panel's charge included periodic reviews of the ecosystems aspects of the USGCRP, and this is the first of those reviews. It is based on information provided by the USGCRP, including Our Changing Planet (NSTC 1997 and earlier editions 1); ideas and conversations provided by participants in a workshop held in St. Michaels, Maryland, in July 1998; and the deliberations of the panel. In addition, the panel reviewed the ecosystems chapter of the NRC report Global Environmental Change: Research Pathways for the Next Decade (NRC 1999a, known as the Pathways report). The USGCRP is an interagency program established in 1989 and codified by the Global Change Research Act of 1990 (PL 101-606). The USGCRP comprises representatives of the departments of Agriculture, Commerce (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and National Institute of Standards and Technology), Defense, Energy, Health and Human Services (the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences), Interior, and State, as well as the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Science Foundation, the Smithsonian Institution, the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Office of Management and Budget, and the intelligence community (NSTC 1997). The USGCRP's research program is described in detail in Our Changing Planet (NSTC 1997, 1999). In brief, the program focuses on four major areas of earth-system science: 1) Seasonal to interannual climate variability; 2) Climate change over decades to centuries; 3) Changes in ozone, ultraviolet (UV) radiation, and atmospheric chemistry, and 4) Changes in land cover and in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. The fourth topic is the area in which advice was requested from the ecosystems panel. The Ecosystems Panel's charge has three parts: to provide a forum for the discussion of questions of ecosystem science of interest to scientists in and out of the federal agencies, to periodically review the ecosystem aspects of the USGCRP's research program, and to help identify general areas of ecosystem science that need additional attention, especially areas that cut across ecosystems and levels of ecological organization. In addressing the second item of its charge for this report, the panel first identified the most significant and challenging areas in ecosystem science, then used that identification as a basis to make recommendations to the USGCRP. Thus, this report is not a detailed review of the USGCRP's program, but rather an attempt to identify those areas that the panel concludes are most in need of attention by a general research program on global change. As noted in this report, some of those areas are already receiving attention by the USGCRP.