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Imperiled: The Encyclopedia of Conservation, part of a three-volume
set, updates on humanity's expanding ecological footprint. With
climate change, increases in human population, consumption levels,
and other anthropogenic factors, nearly half the known species on
Earth could soon be gone. This book provides a global synthesis of
the world's imperiled species and ecosystems. It documents rarity
and endangerment, the major drivers of loss, areas of conservation
importance, and implementation strategies to save and restore
imperiled species and ecosystems. This is first of its kind
coverage of Earth's imperiled species and ecosystems in a
comprehensive encyclopedia.
Conservation Science and Advocacy for a Planet in Peril: Speaking
Truth to Power helps equip scientists working on environmental and
sustainability challenges with new tactics for success. Global
efforts and cooperation by member states of environmental
conventions have steadily increased but lack efficient and scalable
mechanisms of translating conservation science to policy. The gap
between science and policy is growing and very little time remains
before the climate change and biodiversity lossess trigger
widespread disruptions of the planet's life support systems. This
book covers these important topics, providing a must read for
environmental and conservation scientists, climate change
activists, students, social scientists, economic professionals,
sustainable businesses and policymakers.
The Ecological Importance of High-Severity Fires, presents
information on the current paradigm shift in the way people think
about wildfire and ecosystems. While much of the current forest
management in fire-adapted ecosystems, especially forests, is
focused on fire prevention and suppression, little has been
reported on the ecological role of fire, and nothing has been
presented on the importance of high-severity fire with regards to
the maintenance of native biodiversity and fire-dependent
ecosystems and species. This text fills that void, providing a
comprehensive reference for documenting and synthesizing fire's
ecological role.
In contexts outside of ecology, the term "disturbance" carries a
variety of negative connotations. Within ecology, however,
disturbances are neither inherently negative nor positive for
ecological systems; instead, their effects depend on the context,
scale, and species involved. As ecologists better understand these
context-dependencies, the field of disturbance ecology has matured,
diversified, and become more complex and nuanced over the past
several decades. Ecological Disturbance: Scale, Context, and Nature
unites a collection of perspectives that weave together the topics
of disturbance ecology and biological diversity. Chapters cover
wildfire, disease, herbivory, surface mining, land-use conversions,
and forest harvest, among numerous other natural and anthropogenic
influences on ecosystems. The book begins with an introduction that
reviews how thinking on perturbations and community organization
has evolved over the last century, then explores how disturbances
might be meaningfully categorized, and how biological diversity has
been conceptualized. The introduction also explores the roles of
scale and ecological context in disturbance outcomes, and reviews
recent analytical and methodological advances relevant to
disturbance ecology. The book then moves into forested ecosystems,
where much of the early literature on disturbances arose, and
focuses on scale-dependence, relationships of natural and
anthropogenic disturbance, and recovery or successional
trajectories. The next section focuses on emerging disturbances
amidst global change, including non-native species, disease, and
synergies with other disturbances. The book ends with a section on
land-use disturbance, focusing on landscape pattern, resilience,
and recovery dynamics. Throughout, the book's material spans a wide
diversity of spatial and temporal scales, disciplines, taxa, and
levels of ecological organization. This book may be used in a
seminar course, as a compendium for disturbance ecology curricula
that are at the interface of conceptual and applied ecology, and in
other circumstances to illustrate how different authors have
handled the various pragmatic challenges that arise in studies that
ask broader questions. In an era of unprecedented global change,
this book constitutes a valuable source for researchers, students,
natural resource managers, and other conservation practitioners
interested in delving deeper into disturbance ecology.
In contexts outside of ecology, the term "disturbance" carries a
variety of negative connotations. Within ecology, however,
disturbances are neither inherently negative nor positive for
ecological systems; instead, their effects depend on the context,
scale, and species involved. As ecologists better understand these
context-dependencies, the field of disturbance ecology has matured,
diversified, and become more complex and nuanced over the past
several decades. Ecological Disturbance: Scale, Context, and Nature
unites a collection of perspectives that weave together the topics
of disturbance ecology and biological diversity. Chapters cover
wildfire, disease, herbivory, surface mining, land-use conversions,
and forest harvest, among numerous other natural and anthropogenic
influences on ecosystems. The book begins with an introduction that
reviews how thinking on perturbations and community organization
has evolved over the last century, then explores how disturbances
might be meaningfully categorized, and how biological diversity has
been conceptualized. The introduction also explores the roles of
scale and ecological context in disturbance outcomes, and reviews
recent analytical and methodological advances relevant to
disturbance ecology. The book then moves into forested ecosystems,
where much of the early literature on disturbances arose, and
focuses on scale-dependence, relationships of natural and
anthropogenic disturbance, and recovery or successional
trajectories. The next section focuses on emerging disturbances
amidst global change, including non-native species, disease, and
synergies with other disturbances. The book ends with a section on
land-use disturbance, focusing on landscape pattern, resilience,
and recovery dynamics. Throughout, the book's material spans a wide
diversity of spatial and temporal scales, disciplines, taxa, and
levels of ecological organization. This book may be used in a
seminar course, as a compendium for disturbance ecology curricula
that are at the interface of conceptual and applied ecology, and in
other circumstances to illustrate how different authors have
handled the various pragmatic challenges that arise in studies that
ask broader questions. In an era of unprecedented global change,
this book constitutes a valuable source for researchers, students,
natural resource managers, and other conservation practitioners
interested in delving deeper into disturbance ecology.
Encyclopedia of the World's Biomes is a unique, five volume
reference that provides a global synthesis of biomes, including the
latest science. All of the book's chapters follow a common thematic
order that spans biodiversity importance, principal anthropogenic
stressors and trends, changing climatic conditions, and
conservation strategies for maintaining biomes in an increasingly
human-dominated world. This work is a one-stop shop that gives
users access to up-to-date, informative articles that go deeper in
content than any currently available publication.
Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene, Five Volume Set presents a
currency-based, global synthesis cataloguing the impact of
humanity's global ecological footprint. Covering a multitude of
aspects related to Climate Change, Biodiversity, Contaminants,
Geological, Energy and Ethics, leading scientists provide
foundational essays that enable researchers to define and
scrutinize information, ideas, relationships, meanings and ideas
within the Anthropocene concept. Questions widely debated among
scientists, humanists, conservationists, politicians and others are
included, providing discussion on when the Anthropocene began, what
to call it, whether it should be considered an official geological
epoch, whether it can be contained in time, and how it will affect
future generations. Although the idea that humanity has driven the
planet into a new geological epoch has been around since the dawn
of the 20th century, the term 'Anthropocene' was only first used by
ecologist Eugene Stoermer in the 1980s, and hence popularized in
its current meaning by atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen in 2000.
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