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Plant Physiological Ecology
The growth, reproduction and geographical distribution of plants are profoundly influenced by their physiological ecology: the interaction with the surrounding physical, chemical, and biological environments. This renowned textbook is notable in emphasizing that the mechanisms underlying plant physi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
Principles of Ecosystem Stewardship
This is a textbook for Natural Resource Management, Resource Conservation and Ecosystem Management, as well as other related or more specialized courses. Most textbooks on natural resource and ecosystem management are dominated by a steady-state view that interprets change as gradual and incremen... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Principles of Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology
Features review questions at the end of each chapter; Includes suggestions for recommended reading; Provides a glossary of ecological terms; Has a wide audience as a textbook for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students and as a reference for practicing scientists from a wide array of disc... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2004 -
Earth Stewardship
by J. Baird Callicott • F. Stuart Chapin • Ricardo Rozzi • Juan J. Armesto • S.T.A. Pickett • Mary E. Power • Roy H. MayThis book advances Earth Stewardship toward a planetary scale, presenting a range of ecological worldviews, practices, and institutions in different parts of the world and to use them as the basis for considering what we could learn from one another, and what we could do together. Today, inter-hemi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
Arctic Sustainability Research: Past, Present and Future
by F. Stuart Chapin • Kathrin Keil • Annika E. Nilsson • Gail Fondahl • Andrey N. Petrov • Jessica K. Graybill • Peter Schweitzer • Rudolf Riedlsperger • Shauna BurnsilverThe Arctic is one of the world’s regions most affected by cultural, socio-economic, environmental, and climatic changes. Over the last two decades, scholars, policymakers, extractive industries, governments, intergovernmental forums, and non-governmental organizations have turned their attention to ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
From Biocultural Homogenization to Biocultural Conservation (Ecology and Ethics #3)
by Daniel Simberloff • Aníbal Pauchard • Irene J. Klaver • Ricardo Rozzi • Roy H. May • F. Stuart Chapin • Francisca Massardo • Michael C. Gavin • Martin A. NuñezTo assess the social processes of globalization that are changing the way in which we co-inhabit the world today, this book invites the reader to essay the diversity of worldviews, with the diversity of ways to sustainably co-inhabit the planet. With a biocultural perspective that highlights planeta... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018