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21. Land Trusts and Biodiversity by Douglas E. Booth | |
Paperback: 314
Pages
(2007-06-22)
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22. Marine Conservation Biology: The Science of Maintaining the Sea's Biodiversity | |
Paperback: 496
Pages
(2005-05-09)
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Editorial Review Product Description Humans are terrestrial animals, and our capacity to see and understand the importance and vulnerability of life in the sea has trailed our growing ability to harm it. While conservation biologists are working to address environmental problems humans have created on land, loss of marine biodiversity, including extinctions and habitat degradation, has received much less attention. At the same time, marine sciences such as oceanography and fisheries biology have largely ignored issues of conservation. Marine Conservation Biology brings together for the first time in a single volume leading experts from around the world to apply the lessons and thinking of conservation biology to marine issues. Contributors including James M. Acheson, Louis W. Botsford, James T. Carlton, Kristina Gjerde, Selina S. Heppell, Ransom A. Myers, Julia K. Parrish, Stephen R. Palumbi, and Daniel Pauly offer penetrating insights on the nature of marine biodiversity, what threatens it, and what humans can and must do to recover the biological integrity of the world's estuaries, coastal seas, and oceans. Sections examine: distinctive aspects of marine populations and ecosystems; threats to marine biological diversity, singly and in combination; place-based management of marine ecosystems; the often-neglected human dimensions of marine conservation. Marine Conservation Biology breaks new ground by creating the conceptual framework for the new field of marine conservation biology -- the science of protecting, recovering, and sustainably using the living sea. It synthesizes the latest knowledge and ideas from leading thinkers in disciplines ranging from larval biology to sociology, making it a must-read for research and teaching faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate and advanced undergraduate students. Customer Reviews (1)
Great Addition to a Marine Ecologist/Biologists Library. |
23. Climate Change and Biodiversity | |
Paperback: 440
Pages
(2006-08-10)
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There are options that can be taken if we don't wish to see the planet and all of its inhabitants wasted
Must read... |
24. Bureaucratic Landscapes: Interagency Cooperation and the Preservation of Biodiversity (Politics, Science, and the Environment) by Craig W. Thomas | |
Paperback: 368
Pages
(2003-01-17)
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25. World Atlas of Biodiversity: Earth's Living Resources in the 21st Century by Brian Groombridge, Martin D. Jenkins | |
Hardcover: 256
Pages
(2002-09-26)
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Great encyclopedia, but why page-spliting graphics? |
26. What Is Biodiversity? by James Maclaurin, Kim Sterelny | |
Paperback: 224
Pages
(2008-06-15)
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27. Last Stand: Protected Areas and the Defense of Tropical Biodiversity | |
Hardcover: 256
Pages
(1997-03-06)
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28. Cultural Memory and Biodiversity by Virginia D. Nazarea | |
Paperback: 189
Pages
(2006-01-26)
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Solid, practical, beautiful, AND tops in methodology The concerted collection of these materials for conservation and use in modern plant breeding preceeded by some decades any efforts to conserve or use the knowledge farmers had about their materials. Virginia Nazarea's book is at once a warm and loving tribute to farmer-innovators, and a practical guide to the study of "indigenous" knowledge of farming systems and farmer-managed biodiversity. She connects plants to people in ways readers will find difficult to forget, and shows that the existence of diversity in crops is linked with the health and diversity of human cultures. In a sense, they have co-evolved with each other. Nazarea's field research focused on how people farm sweet potatoes in Bukidnon, Phillipines. In the course of this research she was able to collect 89 sweet potato varieties. Her book offers a detailed account of these varieties and their management. One particularly interesting table provides a compendium of indigenous cultural management beliefs and practices, and comments on each by a plant pathologist, entomologist, agronomist, plant breeder and plant physiologist. The result is fascinating and revealing. In response to the observation that Holy water is mixed with some cuttings so God will watch over and protect the crop, the plant pathologist replies, "purely fanatic," while the plant breeder comments that "water will be good for the cuttings." Most important, the field research was a test of methodology. This is where the book shines. Nazarea offers a well-conceived, practical, step-by-step guide to researchers who wish to examine the interaction between traditional farmers and their crops. Though Nazarea is an anthropologist by training, this guide, interestingly and uniquely, will be equally valuable to social scientists, ethnobiologists, and agricultural scientists (particularly plant collectors and breeders). Nazarea is clearly sensitive both to the local needs and feelings of farmers as well as to aspirations and needs of researchers. The result is highly useful. In one light volume, the researcher has a complete and rigourous methodology laid out, from the types of questions to ask, to how to ask them and to whom. With slight modification to suit particular circumstances, most researchers may need little else to undertake work in this particular field. Nazarea's "big" thesis is that "preserving local knowledge pertaining to traditional varieties of crops is complementary, and in many respects indispensable, to the maintenance of the genetic diversity of these crops." Some may argue that she falls a little short in proving its indispensability. Nevertheless, she is on solid ground, genetically and socially, when she demonstrates the importance of on-farm management and what she calls "memory banking" of indigenous knowledge. Equally, she is convincing in arguing that ex situ (genebank) and in situ (on-farm) conservation and management of genetic resources are complementary strategies. Nazarea's contribution is to the latter, both by providing a methodology for research, and an engaging, delightfully-written case study of its application. This is a book without peers in its field.
The loss of biodiversity is a loss of cultural dimensions. |
29. Agriculture, Biodiversity and Markets: Livelihoods and Agroecology in Comparative Perspective | |
Hardcover: 336
Pages
(2010-01)
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30. An Ethics of Biodiversity: Christianity, Ecology, and the Variety of Life by Kevin J. O'Brien | |
Paperback: 221
Pages
(2010-06-15)
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31. Biodiversity (Papers from the 1st National Forum on Biodiversity, September 1986, Washington, D.C.) | |
Paperback: 538
Pages
(1996-10-06)
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First Class Service
May have changed my life Being assigned summer reading, my teacher was convinced that I would love this book. He obviousely thought highly of it and so I began reading with an open mind. I'm so glad I did because the issues presented took my breath away. We are living in the middle of the largest mass extinction Earth has ever seen. Right now. These essays bring the reader completely up to speed on what is being destroyed, what efforts are being done to save the Earth, and what further efforts need to begin. I can honestly say that my career path may have been steered more in the direction of biology after finshing Biodiversity. Everyone should read this book - I can garrentee that it will be a great enlightening experience. ... Read more |
32. Global Biodiversity: Status of the Earth's Living Resources by World Conservation Monitoring Centre | |
Hardcover: 614
Pages
(1992-06-30)
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33. Biodiversity Planning and Design: Sustainable Practices by Jack Ahern, Elizabeth Leduc, Mary Lee York, Landscape Architecture Foundation | |
Paperback: 128
Pages
(2007-01-01)
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34. Biodiversity: Social and Ecological Perspectives by Vandana Shiva, Patrick Anderson, Heffa Schucking, Andrew Gray | |
Paperback: 124
Pages
(1992-01-15)
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35. Agroforestry and Biodiversity Conservation in Tropical Landscapes | |
Paperback: 575
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(2004-06-25)
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Adequate for discussion in graduate or undergraduate classes |
36. The Root Causes of Biodiversity Loss | |
Paperback: 399
Pages
(2000-01-15)
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37. Marine Biology: Function, Biodiversity, Ecology by Jeffrey S. Levinton | |
Hardcover: 640
Pages
(2008-12-02)
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I think it's not original issue
Marine Biology 101 |
38. The Law of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Management (University Casebook Series) by John Copeland Nagle, J. B. Ruhl | |
Hardcover: 1147
Pages
(2006-07-18)
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Lots of important information |
39. Biodiversity of Fungi: Inventory and Monitoring Methods | |
Hardcover: 777
Pages
(2004-06-24)
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Mycological guide for beginners and more experienced mycologists
Almost comprehensive |
40. Biodiversity II: Understanding and Protecting Our Biological Resources by A Joseph Henry Press book | |
Paperback: 560
Pages
(1996-09-16)
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Essential for any course in Conservation Biology
A Must-Have for Environmental Economists
A Must-Have for Environmental Economists
An invaluable addition to the "biodiversity" bookshelf |
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