Ecology Conservation And Management Of Mediterranean Climate Ecosystems
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Author | : Karen J. Esler |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0198739133 |
This book provides a concise but comprehensive introduction to Mediterranean-type ecosystems with the emphasis being on the organisms that dominate these regions although their management, conservation, and restoration will also be considered.
Author | : Jon E. Keeley |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 523 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0521824915 |
Explores the role of fire in Mediterranean-type climate ecosystems, providing unique insights into the assembly and evolutionary convergence of ecosystems.
Author | : Harold A. Mooney |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Margarita Arianoutsou |
Publisher | : IOS Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Biodiversity conservation |
ISBN | : 9789059660168 |
Author | : Ian Billick |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 479 |
Release | : 2012-08-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0226050440 |
Ecologists can spend a lifetime researching a small patch of the earth, studying the interactions between organisms and the environment, and exploring the roles those interactions play in determining distribution, abundance, and evolutionary change. With so few ecologists and so many systems to study, generalizations are essential. But how do you extrapolate knowledge about a well-studied area and apply it elsewhere? Through a range of original essays written by eminent ecologists and naturalists, The Ecology of Place explores how place-focused research yields exportable general knowledge as well as practical local knowledge, and how society can facilitate ecological understanding by investing in field sites, place-centered databases, interdisciplinary collaborations, and field-oriented education programs that emphasize natural history. This unique patchwork of case-study narratives, philosophical musings, and historical analyses is tied together with commentaries from editors Ian Billick and Mary Price that develop and synthesize common threads. The result is a unique volume rich with all-too-rare insights into how science is actually done, as told by scientists themselves.
Author | : Harold Mooney |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 1008 |
Release | : 2016-01-19 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0520278801 |
This long-anticipated reference and sourcebook for CaliforniaÕs remarkable ecological abundance provides an integrated assessment of each major ecosystem typeÑits distribution, structure, function, and management. A comprehensive synthesis of our knowledge about this biologically diverse state, Ecosystems of California covers the state from oceans to mountaintops using multiple lenses: past and present, flora and fauna, aquatic and terrestrial, natural and managed. Each chapter evaluates natural processes for a specific ecosystem, describes drivers of change, and discusses how that ecosystem may be altered in the future. This book also explores the drivers of CaliforniaÕs ecological patterns and the history of the stateÕs various ecosystems, outlining how the challenges of climate change and invasive species and opportunities for regulation and stewardship could potentially affect the stateÕs ecosystems. The text explicitly incorporates both human impacts and conservation and restoration efforts and shows how ecosystems support human well-being. Edited by two esteemed ecosystem ecologists and with overviews by leading experts on each ecosystem, this definitive work will be indispensable for natural resource management and conservation professionals as well as for undergraduate or graduate students of CaliforniaÕs environment and curious naturalists.
Author | : Susan W. Nicolson |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2007-04-18 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 140205937X |
Nectar is the most important reward offered by plants to pollinating animals. This book is a modern and interdisciplinary text on nectar and nectaries, prompted by the expansion of knowledge in ecological and molecular fields, and the strong recent interest in pollination biology. The topics covered vary widely: they include historical aspects, the structure and ultrastructure of nectaries and relationships to plant systematics, the dynamics of nectar secretion, nectar chemistry and the molecular biology of defence proteins, and more.
Author | : Jose M. Moreno |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1461383951 |
Fire has been recognized as a vital agent influencing the diversity and vigor of landscapes. It is particularly important in Mediterranean ecosystems, such as those of California. This book is of interest to ecologists, policy makers, and land managers.
Author | : R. H. Groves |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 1991-11-07 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780521360401 |
This book is an initiative of a subcommittee of SCOPE (Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment) which realized that the integrity of many natural ecosystems was being threatened by the ingress of invasive species.
Author | : Cathryn H. Greenberg |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 513 |
Release | : 2021-10-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3030732673 |
This edited volume presents original scientific research and knowledge synthesis covering the past, present, and potential future fire ecology of major US forest types, with implications for forest management in a changing climate. The editors and authors highlight broad patterns among ecoregions and forest types, as well as detailed information for individual ecoregions, for fire frequencies and severities, fire effects on tree mortality and regeneration, and levels of fire-dependency by plant and animal communities. The foreword addresses emerging ecological and fire management challenges for forests, in relation to sustainable development goals as highlighted in recent government reports. An introductory chapter highlights patterns of variation in frequencies, severities, scales, and spatial patterns of fire across ecoregions and among forested ecosystems across the US in relation to climate, fuels, topography and soils, ignition sources (lightning or anthropogenic), and vegetation. Separate chapters by respected experts delve into the fire ecology of major forest types within US ecoregions, with a focus on the level of plant and animal fire-dependency, and the role of fire in maintaining forest composition and structure. The regional chapters also include discussion of historic natural (lightning-ignited) and anthropogenic (Native American; settlers) fire regimes, current fire regimes as influenced by recent decades of fire suppression and land use history, and fire management in relation to ecosystem integrity and restoration, wildfire threat, and climate change. The summary chapter combines the major points of each chapter, in a synthesis of US-wide fire ecology and forest management into the future. This book provides current, organized, readily accessible information for the conservation community, land managers, scientists, students and educators, and others interested in how fire behavior and effects on structure and composition differ among ecoregions and forest types, and what that means for forest management today and in the future.