Kategoria BISAC: Nature >> Animals - Wildlife

Those who are involved with fishing and fisheries resource management--including fishermen, their communities, production, processing, distribution, and marketing industries, and various government and non-governmental organizations--confront the contradictions arising from the appropriation, allocation, and distribution of fisheries and marine resources in a variety of ways.

The authors call into question the assumptions of policy prescriptions to common resource problems by examining the experiences of people and societies confronted with and adapting to these resource appropriation,...

Abundantly illustrated with more than 400 color photographs and 200 detailed drawings, this comprehensive guide to the state's rare and endangered plants provides photographs and botanical illustrations in a single volume formatted for field use. More than 200 species are covered, including two dozen that are federally listed and 170-plus that are listed as Threatened, Endangered, Rare, or of Special Concern by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.

The guide is designed for easy, nontechnical identification of species in the field. Color photographs show the plants in their...

Long believed to be disappearing and possibly even extinct, the Southwestern bighorn sheep of Utah s canyonlands have made a surprising comeback. Naturalist Ellen Meloy tracks a band of these majestic creatures through backcountry hikes, downriver floats, and travels across the Southwest. Alone in the wilderness, Meloy chronicles her communion with the bighorns and laments the growing severance of man from nature, a severance that she feels has left us spiritually hungry. Wry, quirky and perceptive, Eating Stone is a brillant and wholly original tribute to the natural world.

This concise introductory text provides a complete overview of biodiversity - what it is, how it arose, its distribution, why it is important, human impact upon it, and what should be done to maintain it.

• Timely overview of the serious attempts made to quantify and describe biodiversity in a scientific way
• Acts as an easy entry point into the primary literature
• Provides real-world examples of key issues, including illustrations of major temporal and spatial patterns in biodiversity
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• Develops thought-provoking applications which emphasize the value of modeling as a learning tool
  
• Examines basic descriptive equations, matrix representations, consumer-resources interactions, applications in simulation, scenarios, harvesting,...

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• Includes case studies and interviews with prominent conservation scientists to help situate key concepts in a real world context
  
• Covers a broad range of topics including: the fate of the coral reefs; the impact of agriculture, urbanization, and...

• Assembles biological, social and economic perspectives that illuminate the bushmeat debate
  
• Features a series of case studies that explore what species survive different intensities of bushmeat hunting and trapping
  
• Examines the shape and size of household bushmeat consumption and market trading
  
• Reviews governance and institutional impacts on wildlife management; lessons learned from agriculture,...