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  • The Heart of the Wild

    Essays on Nature, Conservation, and the Human Future

    de Bill Adams, Joel Berger, Susan Clayton, Eileen Crist, Martha L. Crump, Thomas Lowe Fleischner, Harry W. Greene, Hal Herzog, Emma Marris, Kathleen Dean Moore, Gary Paul Nabhan, Peter H. Raven, Christopher J. Schell, Richard Shine, Kyle Whyte ...
    Timely and provocative reflections on the future of the wild in an increasingly human worldThe Heart of the Wild brings together some of today’s leading scientists, humanists, and nature writers to offer a thought-provoking meditation on the urgency of learning about and experiencing our wild places in an age of rapidly expanding human impacts.These engaging essays present nuanced and often ... Leer más

    $19.49 USD

  • A Californian's Guide to the Trees Among Us

    Expanded and Updated

    de Matt Ritter ...
    Now expanded and updated: Californians’ favorite reference book to trees in our everyday lives."Anyone who is curious about trees is sure to find education and inspiration in these pages."—David Allen Sibley, author of The Sibley Guide to Trees and The Sibley Guide to BirdsFor more than ten years, A Californian’s Guide to the Trees among Us has taught Californians the what, why, and how of trees ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Flowering Plants of the Sierra Nevada

    A Photographic Guide to Over 1000 Wildflowers

    de Joanna Clines, Stephen Sharnoff ...
    The most extensive guide to identifying the flowering plants in California's richly diverse Sierra Nevada mountains.This photographic guide to the wildflowers of the Sierra Nevada has been over twenty-five years in the making, drawing together spectacular images by Stephen Sharnoff, the photographer of the acclaimed Lichens of North America, and informative text by botanist Joanna Clines, who has ... Leer más

    $46.99 USD

  • Population, Agriculture, and Biodiversity

    Problems and Prospects

    Edición de J. Perry Gustafson, Peter H. Raven, Paul R. Ehrlich ...
    This timely collection of 15 original essays written by expert scientists the world over addresses the relationships between human population growth, the need to increase food supplies to feed the world population, and the chances for avoiding the extinction of a major proportion of the world's plant and animal species that collectively makes our survival on Earth possible. These relationships are ... Leer más

    $35.29 USD

  • Life in the Himalaya

    An Ecosystem at Risk

    de Maharaj K. Pandit ...
    The collision of the Indian and Eurasian plates around fifty million years ago profoundly altered earth’s geography and regional climates. The rise of the Himalaya led to intensification of the monsoon, the birth of massive glaciers and turbulent rivers, and an efflorescence of ecosystems along the most extreme elevational gradient on Earth. When the Ice Age ended, humans became part of this mix, ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD

  • Coevolution of Animals and Plants

    Symposium V, First International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology, 1973

    Edición de Lawrence E. Gilbert, Peter H. Raven ...
    It has long been recognized that plants and animals profoundly affect one another’s characteristics during the course of evolution. However, the importance of coevolution as a dynamic process involving such diverse factors as chemical communication, population structure and dynamics, energetics, and the evolution, structure, and functioning of ecosystems has been widely recognized for a ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Restoring Natural Capital

    Science, Business, and Practice

    Edición de James Aronson, Suzanne J. Milton, James N. Blignaut ...
    Series series Science Practice Ecological Restoration
    How can environmental degradation be stopped? How can it be reversed? And how can the damage already done be repaired? The authors of this volume argue that a two-pronged approach is needed: reducing demand for ecosystem goods and services and better management of them, coupled with an increase in supply through environmental restoration.Restoring Natural Capital brings together economists and ... Leer más

    $48.99 USD

  • Conservation Biology

    Voices from the Tropics

    Edición de Navjot S. Sodhi, Peter H. Raven, Luke Gibson ...
    The late Navjot Sodhi conceived this book as a way of bringing to the forefront of our conservation planning for the tropics the views of people who were actually working and living there. In its 31 chapters, 55 authors present their views on the conservation problems they face and how they deal with them.Effective long term conservation in the tropics requires the full participation of local ... Leer más

    $94.00 USD

  • Ancient Forests of the Pacific Northwest

    de Elliott A. Norse, The Wilderness Society ...
    Ancient Forests of the Pacific Northwest provides a global context for what is happening in the Pacific Northwest, analyzing the remaining ancient forest and the threats to it from atmospheric changes and logging. It shows how human tampering affects an ecosystem, and how the Pacific Northwest could become a model for sustainable forestry worldwide. ... Leer más

    $39.59 USD

  • Evolution and Diversification of Land Plants

    Edición de Kunio Iwatsuki, Peter H. Raven ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    It is agreed by most scientists that there is a real possibility of mankind's being plunged into crisis around the middle of the twenty-first century because of insufficient crop production to support the explosively increasing world popula tion and because of serious pollution of the global environment. Plants should play the major role in alleviating this crisis. Consequently, plant science will ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Ex Situ Plant Conservation

    Supporting Species Survival In The Wild

    de Center for Plant Conservation ...
    Series series Science Practice Ecological Restoration
    Faced with widespread and devastating loss of biodiversity in wild habitats, scientists have developed innovative strategies for studying and protecting targeted plant and animal species in "off-site" facilities such as botanic gardens and zoos. Such ex situ work is an increasingly important component of conservation and restoration efforts.Ex Situ Plant Conservation, edited by Edward O. Guerrant ... Leer más

    $50.39 USD

  • Public Garden Management

    A Complete Guide to the Planning and Administration of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta

    de Donald Rakow, Sharon Lee ...
    The complete-and-ready reference for establishing, managing, and running a successful and sustainable, profitable public gardenAs unique museums with living collections of plants, public gardens offer visitors aesthetically beautiful landscapes combined with educational programming and scientific research that promote the value and understanding of plants. In the twenty-first century, public ... Leer más

    $82.00 USD