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Books on Science > Life Sciences > Biological Diversity
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Richard Dawkins
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2009]
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150 years ago the momentous findings in Charles Darwin's controversial masterpiece, On the Origin of Species, shook the scientific and religious world to its core. Perhaps more astonishing, the creation-evolution debate sparked by his seminal work of 1859 continues unabated in the 21st century. Now, Richard Dawkins, world renowned evolutionary... more
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Michel Loreau
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2010]
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Description: The major subdisciplines of ecology--population ecology, community ecology, ecosystem ecology, and evolutionary ecology--have diverged increasingly in recent decades. What is critically needed today is an integrated, real-world approach to ecology that reflects the interdependency of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. From Populations to Ecosystems proposes an innovative theoretical synthesis that... more
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Sahotra Sarkar
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2005]
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Description: This book explores the epistemological and ethical issues at the foundations of environmental philosophy, emphasizing the conservation of biodiversity. Sahota Sarkar criticizes previous attempts to attribute intrinsic value to nature and defends an anthropocentric position on biodiversity conservation based on an untraditional concept of transformative value. Unlike other studies... more
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Michael Doebeli
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2011]
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"Adaptive biological diversification occurs when frequency-dependent selection generates advantages for rare phenotypes and induces a split of an ancestral lineage into multiple descendant lineages. Using adaptive dynamics theory, individual-based simulations, and partial differential equation models, this book illustrates that adaptive diversification due to frequency-dependent ecological interaction is a theoretically ubiquitous... more
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Navjot S Sodhi ,
Greg Acciaioli ,
Maribeth Erb
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2007]
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Description: Protected areas have emerged as major arenas of dispute concerning both indigenous and environmental protection. In the Malay Archipelago, which contains two of the twenty-five biodiversity hotspots identified globally, rampant commercial exploitation is jeopardizing species and rural livelihoods. While protected areas remain the only hope for the imperiled biota... more
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David J Linden
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2011]
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Description: A leading brain scientist's look at the neurobiology of pleasure-and how pleasures can become addictions. Whether eating, taking drugs, engaging in sex, or doing good deeds, the pursuit of pleasure is a central drive of the human animal. In The Compass of Pleasure Johns Hopkins neuroscientist David J. Linden... more
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Janet Franklin
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2010]
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Description: Maps of species distributions or habitat suitability are required for many aspects of environmental research, resource management and conservation planning. These include biodiversity assessment, reserve design, habitat management and restoration, species and habitat conservation plans and predicting the effects of environmental change on species and ecosystems. The proliferation of... more
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James Maclaurin ,
Kim Sterelny
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2008]
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In the life sciences, there is wide-ranging debate about biodiversity. While nearly everyone is in favor of biodiversity and its conservation, methods for its assessment vary enormously. So what exactly is biodiversity? Most theoretical work on the subject assumes it has something to do with species richness--with the number of... more
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Richard D Bardgett ,
Michael B Usher ,
David W Hopkins
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2005]
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Adobe PDF eBook Rights: Copying allowed, 5 selections every 30 days. Printing allowed, 20 pages every 30 days. Lending not allowed. Reading aloud not allowed. Never expires. Soil has generally been regarded as something of a 'black box' by ecologists. The importance of soil is obvious: it provides physical support... more
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David Burslem ,
Michelle Pinard ,
Sue Hartley
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2005]
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Adobe PDF eBook Rights: Copying allowed, 5 selections every 30 days. Printing allowed, 20 pages every 30 days. Lending not allowed. Reading aloud not allowed. Never expires. Tropical ecosystems house a significant proportion of global biodiversity. To understand how these ecosystems function we need to appreciate not only what plants,... more
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Christian Que V L ,
Jean Claude Mounolou
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Description: The title provides an overview of the current knowledge about the diversity of the living world and the various problems associated with its conservation and sustainable use. Covering both the fundamentals of the subject, along with the latest research, Biodiversity presents key conservation issues within a framework of global... more
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David Lindenmayer ,
Richard Hobbs
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Description: The distinctive relationships between landscape change, habitat fragmentation, and biodiversity conservation are highlighted in this original and useful guide to the theory and practice of ecological landscape design. Key insights by some of the world's leading experts in landscape ecology and conservation biology make Managing and Designing Landscapes for... more
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Michael J Conroy ,
John P Carroll
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2011]
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Adobe PDF eBook Rights: Copy allowed for 15 selections within interval of 365 days Print allowed : Unlimited Read aloud allowed : Unlimited Description: This book provides a hands-on introduction to the construction and application of models to studies of vertebrate distribution, abundance, and habitat. The book is aimed at... more
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Bruce L Smith
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Description: In the heart of Wyoming sprawls the ancient homeland of the Eastern Shoshone Indians, who were forced by the U.S. government to share a reservation in the Wind River basin and flanking mountain ranges with their historical enemy, the Northern Arapahos. Both tribes lost their sovereign, wide-ranging ways of... more
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Jonathan B Losos ,
Robert E Ricklefs
[Ebook, Adobe epub 2009]
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"This wonderful and lively book provides a fitting forty-year retrospective on MacArthur and Wilson's seminal volume. I can easily see it on the shelf of every serious graduate student of community ecology. It has all the 'right' names in it--many of them personal friends of MacArthur and Wilson--plus a bunch... more
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Gero Benckiser ,
Sylvia Schnell
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2006]
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Biodiversity in Agricultural Production Systems explores the diversity of agricultural production systems including the geno/phenotype diversity through plant breeding. It collects data on soil space diversity and species richness of microbial communities such as bacteria, fungi, protozoa, nematodes, and Tardigrada. Focusing on lumbricid earthworms as distributors of microbes, it discusses... more
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Anthony D Barnosky
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"This comprehensive book makes an important contribution to the literature on Ice Age animals and climate. I expect it will be an important reference work for years to come."--Timothy H. Heaton, University of South Dakota "This book brings together the state-of-knowledge for this important high-altitude Pleistocene paleontological locality. This synthesis... more
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Joan Roughgarden
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""Evolution's Rainbow "is an expansively creative challenge to the modern orthodoxies of sexual selection. Roughgarden's intellectual generosity may jump-start the careers of a new generation of diversity-affirming Darwinian scientists."--Patricia Adair Gowaty, author of "Feminism and Evolutionary Biology ""An entrancing tale of sexual ambiguity in animals and people, but also that... more
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Giorgio Bertorelle ,
Michael W Bruford ,
Heidi C Hauffe
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2009]
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It is widely accepted among conservation biologists that genetics is, more than ever, an essential and efficient tool for wild and captive population management and reserve design. However, a true synergy between population genetics and conservation biology is lacking. Following the first International Workshop on Population Genetics for Animal Conservation... more
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Andrew S Pullin
[Ebook, Adobe pdf 2002]
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Adobe PDF eBook Rights: Copying allowed, 5 selections every 30 days. Printing allowed, 20 pages every 30 days. Lending not allowed. Reading aloud not allowed. Never expires. Conservation biology is fast emerging as a major new discipline, which incorporates biological principles in the design of effective strategies for the sustainable... more
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