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Ecology

Earth Sciences

Stormwater A Resource for Scientists, Engineers, and Policy Makers

Wilson William G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226365008, ISBN: HB: 9780226364957, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 277 halftones

As cities grow and climates change, precipitation increases, and with every great storm – from record-breaking Boston blizzards to floods in Houston – come buckets of stormwater and a deluge of problems. In "Stormwater", William G. Wilson brings us t...

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Ecology

Social Lives of Forests Past, Present, and Future of Woodland Resurgence

Hecht Susanna B., Morrison Kathleen D., Padoch Christine

ISBN: PB: 9780226322681, ISBN: HB: 9780226322667, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 halftones, 13 line drawings, 19 tables

Forests are in decline, and the threats these outposts of nature face – including deforestation, degradation, and fragmentation – are the result of human culture. Or are they? This volume calls these assumptions into question, revealing forests' past...

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Birds

Ecology

Snowbird Integrative Biology and Evolutionary Diversity in the Junco

Ketterson Ellen D., Atwell Jonathan W.

ISBN: HB: 9780226330778, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 20 halftones, 14 line drawings, 6 tables

At birdfeeders and in backyards across North America, the dark-eyed junco, or snowbird, can be found foraging for its next meal. With an estimated population of at least 630 million, juncos inhabit forests, parks, and even suburban habitats, making t...

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Nature

Ecology

Sustainable Values, Sustainable Change A Guide to Environmental Decision Making

Norton Bryan G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226197456, ISBN: HB: 9780226197319, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 10 line drawings, 3 tables

Sustainability is a nearly ubiquitous concept today, but can we ever imagine what it would be like for humans to live sustainably on the earth? No, says Bryan G. Norton in "Sustainable Values, Sustainable Change". One of the most trafficked terms in...

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Ecology

Serengeti IV Sustaining Biodiversity in a Coupled Human-Natural System

Sinclair Anthony R. E., Metzger Kristine L., Mduma Simon A. R., Fryxell John M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226196169, ISBN: HB: 9780226195834, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
832 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 84 halftones, 100 line drawings, 66 tables

The vast savannas and great migrations of the Serengeti conjure impressions of a harmonious and balanced ecosystem. But in reality, the history of the Serengeti is rife with battles between human and non-human nature. In the 1890s and several times s...

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Ecology

Snail Darter and the Dam How Pork-Barrel Politics Endangered a Fish and Killed a River

Plater Zygmunt J. B.

ISBN: PB: 9780300209419, ISBN: HB: 9780300173246, Yale University Press, November 2014
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 28 black&white illus.

Even today, thirty years after the legal battles to save the endangered snail darter, the little fish is often invoked as an icon of leftist extremism and governmental foolishness. In this eye-opening book, the environmental lawyer who fought and won...

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Ecology

Stitching the West Back Together Conservation of Working Landscapes

Charnley Susan, Sheridan Thomas E., Nabhan Gary P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226165714, ISBN: HB: 9780226165684, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones, 5 tables

News headlines would often have us believe that conservationists are inevitably locked in conflict with the people who live and work on the lands they seek to protect. Not so. Across the western expanses of the United States, conservationists, ranche...

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Ecology

Saving the World's Deciduous Forests Ecological Perspectives from East Asia, North America, and Europe

Askins Robert A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300166811, Yale University Press, June 2014
320 pp., 25x15 cm, 31 black&white illus.

Deciduous forests have been remarkably resilient throughout their history, recovering from major shifts in climate and surviving periods of massive deforestation. But today the world's great forests confront more ominous threats than ever before. Thi...

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Ecology

Nature

Second Growth The Promise of Tropical Forest Regeneration in an Age of Deforestation

Chazdon Robin L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226118079, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
472 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 colour plates, 26 halftones, 31 line drawings, 22 tables

For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that these "pristine" ecosystems housed superior levels of biodiversity. With "Second Growth", Ro...

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Ecology

Secrets of the Ice Antarctica's Clues to Climate, the Universe, and the Limits of Life

Meduna Veronika

ISBN: HB: 9780300187007, Yale University Press, October 2012
232 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 3 maps, 158 colour images, 5 black&white illus.

Antarctica is the only continent without permanent human habitation, yet it may hold the key to our survival. More than just a frontier for exploration, Antarctica is now understood to be a crucial part of a global climate and environment. Each year...

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