Routledge, 2017. — 621 p. — ISBN: 9781315685977. Urban centres, though they often arise on what was once a vibrant and complex landscape, are major sinks for natural resources. In a strict sense, ecological restoration seeks to re-establish the key ecological structures and functions of times past and return to a self-organizing and self-sustaining system. Where sufficient land...
FAO, FLD, IPGRI. 2004. International Plant Genetic Resources Institute, Rome, Italy. 89 p. This guide is the third volume of a series of three that deal with the conservation of forest (trees and shrubs) genetic resources. This volume addresses technical requirements, and some applied approaches and experiences with the ex situ conservation and management of forest genetic...
Sinauer Associates, 2002. — 464 p. This textbook covers general ecology, but with the focus on the interactions between plants and their environment over a range of scales. It also emphasizes the importance of evolutionary and other historical processes for contemporary ecology. While the book is written for an undergraduate course in plant ecology, its style, coverage of the...
Yale University Press, 2018. — 209 p. — ISBN 9780300229332, ASIN 030022933X. Drawn from ecologist Charles M. Peters's thirty-five years of fieldwork around the globe, these absorbing stories argue that the best solutions for sustainably managing tropical forests come from the people who live in them. As Peters says, "Local people know a lot about managing tropical forests, and...
CABI, 2004. — 528 p. — ISBN10: 0851997341, ISBN13: 978-0851997346 The rain forests of West Africa have been designated as one of the world's hotspots of biodiversity. They extend from Ghana to Senegal and are referred to as the Upper Guinean forests. Because of their isolated position, they harbor a large number of rare and endemic animal and plant species. This book focuses on...
Nova Science Publishers, Inc. , 2014. — 475 p. Harsh environments found around the world harbor unique organisms adapted to extreme ranges in climatic, edaphic, and other environmental variables. Whether they occur in extreme climates such as alpine summits or inland deserts, in habitats frequently disturbed by fire or floods, or on edaphic islands created by unique geologies...
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