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Ecology

Infinite Nature

Hull R. Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780226102221, ISBN: HB: 9780226359441, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 2 tables

You would be hard-pressed to find someone who categorically opposes protecting the environment, yet most people would agree that the environmentalist movement has been ineffectual and even misguided. Some argue that its agenda is misplaced, oppressiv...

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Ecology

Ignoring Nature No More The Case for Compassionate Conservation

Bekoff Marc

ISBN: PB: 9780226925356, ISBN: HB: 9780226925332, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
456 pp., 23x15 cm

For far too long humans have been ignoring nature. As the most dominant, overproducing, overconsuming, big-brained, big-footed, arrogant, and invasive species ever known, we are wrecking the planet at an unprecedented rate. And while science is impor...

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Nature

Ecology

Island Life Or, the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras, Including a Revision and Attempted Solution of the Problem of Geological Climates

Wallace Alfred Russel

ISBN: PB: 9780226045030, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
608 pp., 23x15 cm, 26 halftones

Alfred Russel Wallace is best known as the codiscoverer, with Charles Darwin, of natural selection, but he was also history's foremost tropical naturalist and the father of biogeography, the modern study of the geographical basis of biological divers...

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Nature

Ecology

Crown Jewels Five Great National Parks Around The World and The Challenges They Face

Delehanty Randolph

ISBN: PB: 9781933253732, University of Chicago Press, American Alliance of Museums Press, May 2013
220 pp., 22.9x29.2 cm, 100 colour illus.

Since the establishment of Yellowstone National Park in 1872, the national park movement has spread quickly and internationally. There are now over seven thousand national parks in 140 countries, and these numbers continue to grow. But national parks...

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Ecology

Rapid Biological Assessment of the Mont Panie Range and Roches de la Ouaieme, North Province, New Caledonia

Tron Francois, Franquet Romain, Larsen Trond H., Cassan Jean-Jerome

ISBN: PB: 9781934151549, University of Chicago Press, Conservation International, April 2013
200 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 40 colour illus.

This report contains the findings from rapid biological assessments around Mont Panie, the tallest mountain in New Caledonia, southwest Pacific. The purpose of the survey was to gather baseline data on biodiversity, analyze local climate trends, asse...

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Mammals

Ecology

Population Fluctuations in Rodents

Krebs Charles J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226010359, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 tables, 77 halftones, 62 line illus.

How did rodent outbreaks in Germany help to end World War I? What caused the destructive outbreak of rodents in Oregon and California in the late 1950s, the large population outbreak of lemmings in Scandinavia in 2010, and the great abundance of fiel...

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Sea Life

Ecology

Bali Marine Rapid Assessment Program 2011

Kusuma Mustika Putu Liza, Ratha I Made Jaya, Purwanto Saleh

ISBN: PB: 9781934151518, University of Chicago Press, Conservation International, March 2013
135 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 72 colour illus.

This report contains the findings from marine biological assessments of fifty-two sites around the coast of Bali. The purpose of the survey was to collect data on biodiversity and coral reef health in order to provide recommendations for the governme...

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Anthropology

Ecology

Ecology of Others Anthropology and the Question of Nature

Descola Philippe

ISBN: PB: 9780984201020, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, March 2013
90 pp., 17.8x11 cm

Since the end of the nineteenth century, the division between nature and culture has been fundamental to Western thought. In this groundbreaking work, renowned anthropologist Philippe Descola seeks to break down this divide, arguing for a departure f...

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Ecology

Evaluacion Ecologica Rapida de la Biodiversidad de los Tepuyes de la Cuenca Alta del Rio Nangaritza, Cordillera del Condor, Ecuador A Rapid Biological Assessment of the Tepuis in the Upper Nangaritza River Basin, Cordillera del Condor, Ecuador

Guayasamin Juan M., Bonaccorso Elisa

ISBN: PB: 9781934151433, University of Chicago Press, Conservation International, February 2013
135 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 3 maps, 29 colour illus.

This report contains the findings from a rapid biological assessment of the Tepuis in the Upper Nangaritza River Basin, Cordillera del Condor, Ecuador. The purpose of the survey was to provide data to support increased protection for the newly create...

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Ecology

Evolution

Wildlife Conservation in a Changing Climate

Brodie Jedediah F., Post Eric S., Doak Daniel F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226074634, ISBN: HB: 9780226074627, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
416 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 tables, 35 halftones, 37 line illus.

Human-induced climate change is emerging as one of the gravest threats to biodiversity in history, and while a vast amount of literature on the ecological impact of climate change exists, very little has been dedicated to the management of wildlife p...

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