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Conservation by Proxy: Indicator, Umbrella, Keystone, Flagship, and Other Surrogate Species
ISBN: 9781597261937 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The vast scope of conservation problems has forced biologists and managers to rely on "surrogate" species to serve as shortcuts to guide their decision making. These species-known by a host of different terms, including indicator, umbrella, and flagship species-act as proxies to represent larger conservation issues, such as the location of biodiversity hotspots or general ecosystem health.
Synthesizing an immense body of literature, conservation biologist and field researcher Tim Caro offers systematic definitions of surrogate species concepts, explores biological theories that underlie... The vast scope of conservation problems has forced biologists and managers to rely on "surrogate" species to serve as shortcuts to guide their decisio...
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220,94 |
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Cultivars: Chemical Properties, Antioxidant Activities & Health Benefits
ISBN: 9781624171017 / Angielski / Twarda / 281 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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1264,32 |
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The Hydropolitics of Dams: Engineering or Ecosystems?
ISBN: 9781780325408 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As we enter a time when human influence is so profoundly shaping the natural world, water is a prime focus for our technologies and victim of our largely unintended pressures. In particular, large dams exert an array of profound effects on ecosystems and the services that they provide to society and this insightful new book argues that there are more appropriate systems and technologies. Featuring case studies from China, India and South Africa The Hydropolitics of Dams charts its way through these troubled waters by looking at the history, benefits and down-sides of dams and alternative...
As we enter a time when human influence is so profoundly shaping the natural world, water is a prime focus for our technologies and victim of our larg...
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139,88 |
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Conservation and Biodiversity Banking : A Guide to Setting Up and Running Biodiversity Credit Trading Systems
ISBN: 9781844074716 / Angielski / Twarda / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A comprehensive guide to conservation banking, explaining what it is and how it works. It provides practical guidance, tools, case studies, analysis and insights into conservation banking and other market-based approaches to conservation.
A comprehensive guide to conservation banking, explaining what it is and how it works. It provides practical guidance, tools, case studies, analysis a...
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774,61 |
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Oceans Past : Management Insights from the History of Marine Animal Populations
ISBN: 9781844075270 / Angielski / Twarda / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For centuries the seas appeared to offer limitless supplies of food and other resources, their waters a cornucopia never to be exhausted. Based on research for the History of Marine Animal Populations project, this title examines the complex relationship our forebears had with the sea and the animals that inhabit it.
For centuries the seas appeared to offer limitless supplies of food and other resources, their waters a cornucopia never to be exhausted. Based on res...
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849,58 |
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Plant Resources for Food, Fuel and Conservation
ISBN: 9781844077212 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Agriculture and food production have a large footprint on the landscape globally and compete for space with land for nature conservation. This book explores the competition between the food needs of a growing human population and the conservation of biodiversity as intensified by the emerging use of crops for energy production.
Agriculture and food production have a large footprint on the landscape globally and compete for space with land for nature conservation. This book ex...
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774,61 |
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Biofuels: Production, Application and Development
ISBN: 9781845935924 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Providing the world's growing population with its increasing demands for energy is a major challenge for science, business and society alike. Energy can be generated from many sources, but not all sources are suitable for every application. Much of today's technology has been built on solid, liquid and gaseous fuels derived from fossil sources. However, the supply of these is finite and their combustion produces carbon dioxide, one of the gases responsible for global warming. Therefore, alternative sources of energy are required which are renewable, sustainable and carbon neutral. Providing the world's growing population with its increasing demands for energy is a major challenge for science, business and society alike. Energy c...
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247,24 |
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Agrobiodiversity Conservation: Securing the Diversity of Crop Wild Relatives and Landraces
ISBN: 9781845938512 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on the 2010 conference -Towards the establishment of genetic reserves for crop wild relatives and landraces in Europe-, this book is the cutting edge discussion of agrobiodiversity conservation. By considering the benefits of understanding and preserving crop wild relatives and landraces, it encompasses issues as wide-ranging and topical as habitat protection, ecosystem health and food security.
Focusing on Europe, but globally relevant, Agrobiodiversity Conservation is ideal for postgraduate students of conservation and environmental studies, conservation... Based on the 2010 conference -Towards the establishment of genetic reserves for crop wild relatives and landraces in Europe-, this book is the cutting...
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701,48 |
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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Insecurity: A Planet in Peril
ISBN: 9781849712200 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Insecurity provides an authoritative and comprehensive assessment of the threats presented to human security and well-being by the loss of ecosystems and biodiversity recently confirmed as one of the critical 'planetary boundaries' that has already been exceeded. Contributors examine the current trends and state of biodiversity globally, the drivers of biodiversity loss including climate change and economic and population pressures, and the mechanisms and policies needed for conserving and restoring biodiversity in the future. Strong emphasis is placed...
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Insecurity provides an authoritative and comprehensive assessment of the threats presented to human security and w...
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274,81 |
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Economic Management of Marine Living Resources: A Practical Introduction
ISBN: 9781849712590 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This textbook has two main objectives. Firstly, it outlines the problems associated with the management and conservation of marine living resources, with particular attention given to the twin concepts of economic value and sustainability. It demonstrates the contribution that economics can make to understanding these problems as well as helping to frame policies to mitigate them. Secondly, it looks in detail at the key methods that may be used to collect and analyse socio-economic data, oriented towards the information needs of decision makers and stakeholders involved in fisheries...
This textbook has two main objectives. Firstly, it outlines the problems associated with the management and conservation of marine living resources, w...
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274,81 |
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Do We Need Pandas?: The Uncomfortable Truth About Biodiversity
ISBN: 9781900322867 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How much is really known about the species that make up the natural world? In this fascinating book, Ken Thompson explains what we do and don't understand about biodiversity. We know that most species remain undiscovered, and that biodiversity is gravely threatened by overfishing, habitat loss, pollution, and climate change. Life on Earth has previously experienced five episodes of mass extinction, and we are now in the middle of a sixth. "Do We Need Pandas?" surveys the Earth's biodiversity, its origins, and some of the threats it currently faces. It then asks how biodiversity loss will...
How much is really known about the species that make up the natural world? In this fascinating book, Ken Thompson explains what we do and don't unders...
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68,33 |
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Biodiversity Conservation: Problems and Policies
ISBN: 9789401041232 / Angielski / Miękka / 405 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume IS one of a number of pubhcatlOns to carry the results of the flfSt research programme of the Royal Swedish Academy of SCience's BelJer Institute The Instltute was formed m 1991 m order to promote mterdlsclplmary research between natural and social sClentlsts on the mterdependency between economic and ecological systems In Its first research programme, the BlOdlverslty Programme, the Instltute brought together a number of leadmg economists and ecologists to address the theoretlcal and pohcy Issues associated with the current high rates of blOdlVefSlty loss m such systems - whether...
This volume IS one of a number of pubhcatlOns to carry the results of the flfSt research programme of the Royal Swedish Academy of SCience's BelJer In...
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683,81 |
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Social Predation: How Group Living Benefits Predators and Prey
ISBN: 9780124072282 / Angielski / Miękka / 317 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The classic literature on predation dealt almost exclusively with solitary predators and their prey. Going back to Lotka-Volterra and optimal foraging theory, the theory about predation, including predator-prey population dynamics, was developed for solitary species. Various consequences of sociality for predators have been considered only recently. Similarly, while it was long recognized that prey species can benefit from living in groups, research on the adaptive value of sociality for prey species mostly emerged in the 1970s. The main theme of this book is the various ways that... The classic literature on predation dealt almost exclusively with solitary predators and their prey. Going back to Lotka-Volterra and optimal forag... |
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184,85 |
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Biodiversity
ISBN: 9780737769050 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This series provides readers with the information they need to think critically about the worldwide implications of global issues; each volume focuses on a controversial topic of worldwide importance and offers a panoramic view of opinions.; Global Viewpoints: Biodiversity examines the relationship between biodiversity and economic development, wildlife, agriculture, and climate change.; By illuminating the complexities and interrelations of the global community, this excellent resource helps students and other researchers enhance their global awareness. Each volume focuses on a controversial...
This series provides readers with the information they need to think critically about the worldwide implications of global issues; each volume focuses...
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166,01 |
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The Cost of Being Green Before Green Was Cool: A 51 Yr. Odyssey
ISBN: 9781479794225 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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148,79 |
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Habitat Conservation Planning: Endangered Species and Urban Growth
ISBN: 9780292708068 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As environmental awareness grows around the world, people are learning that a diversity of species and the habitat to support them is necessary to maintain the ecological health of the earth. At the same time, however, the pressure to develop wildlife habitat for human settlement and economic gain also grows, causing frequent clashes between the forces of development and of conservation. This pioneering study focuses on a new tool for resolving the land-use conflict--the creation of habitat conservation plans (HCPs). Timothy Beatley explores the development and early results of this... As environmental awareness grows around the world, people are learning that a diversity of species and the habitat to support them is necessary to ... |
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94,90 |
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Wildlife the South African Way
ISBN: 9781483682662 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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173,61 |
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Wildlife of the Caribbean
ISBN: 9780691153827 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first comprehensive illustrated guide to the natural world of the Caribbean islands. It contains 600 vivid color images featuring 451 species of plants, birds, mammals, fish, seashells, and much more. While the guide primarily looks at the most conspicuous and widespread species among the islands, it also includes rarely seen creatures--such as the Rhinoceros Iguana and Cuban Solenodon--giving readers a special sense of the region's diverse wildlife. Each species is represented by one or more color photos or illustrations; details regarding its identification, status, and... This is the first comprehensive illustrated guide to the natural world of the Caribbean islands. It contains 600 vivid color images featuring 451 s... |
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89,90 |
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Sage: A Lark's Story
ISBN: 9781491028711 / Angielski / Miękka / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Follow me as you enter my world, the world of a bird, the world of a Horned Lark.' Sage is a pretty little Horned Lark. She has a beautiful array of feathers and sings like only a songbird can. In Sage: A Lark's Story, you will learn all about this magnificent bird, her life, her mate, and her family. Author Zoe Griffin, a nine-year-old girl who frequently spots birds like Sage in her backyard in rural Wyoming, shares these facts and more in her entertaining book about one pretty little bird. Told from the perspective of Sage, the Horned Lark, the book offers a delightful bird's eye view of...
'Follow me as you enter my world, the world of a bird, the world of a Horned Lark.' Sage is a pretty little Horned Lark. She has a beautiful array of ...
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38,66 |
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Belize Wildlife: A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species
ISBN: 9781583558676 / Angielski / Miękka / 12 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Belize is the permanent or migratory home of 500 species of birds, including the national bird the keel-billed toucan. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, nearshore fishes and butterflies that travelers are most likely to encounter. Laminated for durability, this lightweight, pocket-sized folding guide is an excellent source of portable information and ideal for field use by eco-travelers of all ages. Made in the USA.
" Belize is the permanent or migratory home of 500 species of birds, including the national bird the keel-billed toucan. This beautifully illustrated gu...
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31,30 |
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