Principles and Methods in Landscape Ecology

Principles and Methods in Landscape Ecology
Author: Almo Farina
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2008-01-22
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1402055358

Landscape ecology is an integrative and multi-disciplinary science and Principles and Methods in Landscape Ecology reconciles the geological, botanical, zoological and human perspectives. In particular ,new paradigms and theories such as percolation, metapopulation, hierarchies, source-sink models have been integrated in this last edition with the recent theories on bio-complexity, information and cognitive sciences. Methods for studying landscape ecology are covered including spatial geometry models and remote sensing in order to create confidence toward techniques and approaches that require a high experience and long-time dedication. Principles and Methods in Landscape Ecology is a textbook useful to present the landscape in a multi-vision perspective for undergraduate and graduate students of biology, ecology, geography, forestry, agronomy, landscape architecture and planning. Sociology, economics, history, archaeology, anthropology, ecological psychology are some sciences that can benefit of the holistic vision offered by this texbook.

Snow Ecology

Snow Ecology
Author: H. G. Jones
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2001-01-15
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780521584838

A multidisciplinary 2001 overview of life in, on and under snow for anyone interested in the cryosphere.

Western Turf Wars

Western Turf Wars
Author: Mike Hudak
Publisher:
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2007
Genre: Grazing
ISBN:

Mike Hudak traveled throughout the West speaking with former employees of wildlife and land management agencies, and citizens who have long advocated for better management of our public lands. Western Turf Wars is a compliation of these accounts - testimonies that reveal how and why the management agencies have failed to protect our public lands. Underlying that management failure is the cowboy myth's social and political legacies.

CWE

CWE
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 306
Release: 1998
Genre: Cumulative effects assessment (Environmental assessment)
ISBN: