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Ecology

Ignoring Nature No More The Case for Compassionate Conservation

Bekoff Marc

ISBN: PB: 9780226925356, ISBN: HB: 9780226925332, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
456 pp., 23x15 cm

For far too long humans have been ignoring nature. As the most dominant, overproducing, overconsuming, big-brained, big-footed, arrogant, and invasive species ever known, we are wrecking the planet at an unprecedented rate. And while science is impor...

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Evolution

Wildlife Conservation in a Changing Climate

Brodie Jedediah F., Post Eric S., Doak Daniel F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226074634, ISBN: HB: 9780226074627, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
416 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 tables, 35 halftones, 37 line illus.

Human-induced climate change is emerging as one of the gravest threats to biodiversity in history, and while a vast amount of literature on the ecological impact of climate change exists, very little has been dedicated to the management of wildlife p...

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Ecology

Nature All Around Us A Guide to Urban Ecology

Beisner Beatrix, Messier Christian, Giraldeau Luc-Alain

ISBN: PB: 9780226922751, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
160 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 1 halftone, 78 line illus.

It's easy to stand in awe of a city's impressive skyline, marveling at its buildings reaching for the clouds and its vast network of roadways and train lines crisscrossing in every direction. It can often seem like everything in a city is man-made, a...

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Ecology

Back to the Future in the Caves of Kaua'i A Scientist's Adventures in the Dark

Burney David A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300172096, ISBN: HB: 9780300150940, Yale University Press, May 2011
216 pp., 22.6x14.8 cm, 39 black&white illus., 8 colour illus.

For two decades, paleoecologist David Burney and his wife, Lida Pigott Burney, have led an excavation of Makauwahi Cave on the island of Kaua'i, uncovering the fascinating variety of plants and animals that have inhabited Hawaii throughout its histor...

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Ecology of Place Contributions of Place-Based Research to Ecological Understanding

Billick Ian, Price Mary V.

ISBN: PB: 9780226050430, ISBN: HB: 9780226050423, University of Chicago Press, January 2011
480 pp., 22.6x15.5 cm, 8 tables, 42 halftones, 32 line illus.

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....

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