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Book Synopsis Linking Invasive Plant Management, Conservation, and Restoration on Santa Cruz Island, California by : Wesley I. Colvin
Download or read book Linking Invasive Plant Management, Conservation, and Restoration on Santa Cruz Island, California written by Wesley I. Colvin and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Invasive Plant Ecology and Management by : Thomas A. Monaco
Download or read book Invasive Plant Ecology and Management written by Thomas A. Monaco and published by CABI. This book was released on 2012 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together ecology and management of invasive plants within natural and agricultural ecosystems, this book bridges the knowledge gap between the processes operating within ecosystems and the practices used to prevent, contain, control and eradicate invasive plant species. The book targets key processes that can be managed, the impact of invasive plants on these ecosystem processes and illustrates how adopting ecologically based principles can influence the ecosystem and lead to effective land management.
Book Synopsis Primer of Ecological Restoration by : Karen Holl
Download or read book Primer of Ecological Restoration written by Karen Holl and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pace, intensity, and scale at which humans have altered our planet in recent decades is unprecedented. We have dramatically transformed landscapes and waterways through agriculture, logging, mining, and fire suppression, with drastic impacts on public health and human well-being. What can we do to counteract and even reverse the worst of these effects? Restore damaged ecosystems. The Primer of Ecological Restoration is a succinct introduction to the theory and practice of ecological restoration as a strategy to conserve biodiversity and ecosystems. In twelve brief chapters, the book introduces readers to the basics of restoration project planning, monitoring, and adaptive management. It explains abiotic factors such as landforms, soil, and hydrology that are the building blocks to successfully recovering microorganism, plant, and animal communities. Additional chapters cover topics such as invasive species and legal and financial considerations. Each chapter concludes with recommended reading and reference lists, and the book can be paired with online resources for teaching. Perfect for introductory classes in ecological restoration or for practitioners seeking constructive guidance for real-world projects, Primer of Ecological Restoration offers accessible, practical information on recent trends in the field.
Book Synopsis Unnatural Landscapes by : Ceiridwen Terrill
Download or read book Unnatural Landscapes written by Ceiridwen Terrill and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Unnatural Landscapes, Ceiridwen Terrill combines lucid science writing with first-person tales of adventure to provide an introduction to invasion ecology and restoration management.
Book Synopsis Beyond the War on Invasive Species by : Tao Orion
Download or read book Beyond the War on Invasive Species written by Tao Orion and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invasive species are everywhere, from forests and prairies to mountaintops and river mouths. Their rampant nature and sheer numbers appear to overtake fragile native species and forever change the ecosystems that they depend on. Concerns that invasive species represent significant threats to global biodiversity and ecological integrity permeate conversations from schoolrooms to board rooms, and concerned citizens grapple with how to rapidly and efficiently manage their populations. These worries have culminated in an ongoing “war on invasive species,” where the arsenal is stocked with bulldozers, chainsaws, and herbicides put to the task of their immediate eradication. In Hawaii, mangrove trees (Avicennia spp.) are sprayed with glyphosate and left to decompose on the sandy shorelines where they grow, and in Washington, helicopters apply the herbicide Imazapyr to smooth cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora) growing in estuaries. The “war on invasive species” is in full swing, but given the scope of such potentially dangerous and ecologically degrading eradication practices, it is necessary to question the very nature of the battle. Beyond the War on Invasive Species offers a much-needed alternative perspective on invasive species and the best practices for their management based on a holistic, permaculture-inspired framework. Utilizing the latest research and thinking on the changing nature of ecological systems, Beyond the War on Invasive Species closely examines the factors that are largely missing from the common conceptions of invasive species, including how the colliding effects of climate change, habitat destruction, and changes in land use and management contribute to their proliferation. There is more to the story of invasive species than is commonly conceived, and Beyond the War on Invasive Species offers ways of understanding their presence and ecosystem effects in order to make more ecologically responsible choices in land restoration and biodiversity conservation that address the root of the invasion phenomenon. The choices we make on a daily basis—the ways we procure food, shelter, water, medicine, and transportation—are the major drivers of contemporary changes in ecosystem structure and function; therefore, deep and long-lasting ecological restoration outcomes will come not just from eliminating invasive species, but through conscientious redesign of these production systems.
Book Synopsis Invasive Plants in Conservation Linkages by : Marit Lowrie Wilkerson
Download or read book Invasive Plants in Conservation Linkages written by Marit Lowrie Wilkerson and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conservation strategies have pros and cons, from the political to the economic to the classic biological. The goal of the body of work presented here seeks to explore an important potential downside of a popular conservation strategy, with the ultimate goal of improving that strategy not denouncing it. Conservation linkages, or corridors, have been a popular tool for multiple decades, and they are intended to enable native plant and animal movement in our increasingly fragmented world. For as long as they have been lauded, they have also been debated and one point of contention in that ongoing debate is whether or not linkages will connect up the species or processes we do not want moving across our landscape. My dissertation research used invasive plant species as its focal "unwanted" in conservation linkages. I outline the underpinnings of this work through a conceptual model that ties together the major ideas that feed into this concern over invasive plants in linkages, drawing from invasion, landscape, and conservation ecology (Chapter 1). I examined the concepts introduced in my conceptual model via observational data collection in a replicated model linkage system in hedgerows of Northern Central Valley, California (Chapter 2) and in large-scale conservation linkages of Southern California (Chapter 3). Those two field-based projects expand upon major themes raised by my conceptual model. Chapter 1 functions as an introduction and guidance source for researchers and managers who may be concerned about invasive plants in their conservation linkage. I developed a conceptual model that delineates eight ways in which invasive plants may interact with conservation linkages. Each interaction type within the model has three main components: linkage, matrix, and focal species. I discuss key aspects of these components, including a) differentiating among matrix types, b) understanding edge effects within the linkages, and c) incorporating relevant invasive species' ecology (primarily dispersal ecology). This model will enhance landscape-level knowledge of invasion ecology and aid land managers in identifying and prioritizing research and management decisions in their conservation linkages. Chapter 2 takes some of the major concepts of Chapter 1 off the paper and into the field. Using a hedgerow network in California's northern Central Valley as the model linkage system, this chapter focuses on how entire invasive plant communities are affected by various landscape-level factors and what contributes to spatially-explicit differences in invasive plant distribution within any given hedgerow. In 31 hedgerows, I collected spatially-explicit invasive plant distribution data as well as data for variables in seven explanatory variables groups: environmental, historical, landscape, management, spatial, structural, and biological. To analyze this data I used a combination of canonical correspondence analysis (CCA), variance partitioning, and non-parametric tests. I found that hedgerow edges were more invaded than interiors, in both species numbers (richness) and abundance (cover), and that difference was likely due to decreased light availability in hedgerow interiors, due to shading. Community-level patterns were strongly associated with environmental, historical, structural and/or landscape explanatory variables. The type of matrix was a key correlative factor and interacted with species dispersal mode. These results will serve as a guide for designing and managing hedgerows in ways that minimize invasion by certain groups of non-native plants based on characteristics of key landscape variables. Chapter 3 takes the concepts of Chapter 1 and the questions of Chapter 2 and applies them in a larger geographic region that contains real-world conservation linkages. This chapter delves more into the effect of differing matrix types and edge effects (i.e. effects of increasing distance away from a linkage edge into the linkage interior). I collected field data on a suite of focal invasive plants of concern to land managers in eight large-scale conservation linkages in southern California. Richness and cover data were collected along edges and up to 200m into the interior of linkages, supplemented with data from the middle-interior of linkages and the connected habitat patches. Explanatory variables were grouped into the same seven categories as those of Chapter 2: historical, structural, landscape, matrix, linkage, biological, and spatial. Using the same analysis methods as above supplemented with mixed-model analysis and classification and regression trees (CART), I found that linkage-related variables consistently explained larger proportions of the data variation than variables in the other six categories. Matrix land-use type again had an influence on invasive plant patterns, and the type of matrix influenced the magnitude of edge effects. Differing dispersal modes only interacted with invasive plant patterns along linkage edges. As in Chapter 2, I included specific management recommendations for how to research and manage invasive plants in conservation linkage systems with similar habitat or matrix types.
Book Synopsis Ecosystems of California by : Harold Mooney
Download or read book Ecosystems of California written by Harold Mooney and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This long-anticipated reference and sourcebook for CaliforniaÕs remarkable ecological abundance provides an integrated assessment of each major ecosystem typeÑits distribution, structure, function, and management. A comprehensive synthesis of our knowledge about this biologically diverse state, Ecosystems of California covers the state from oceans to mountaintops using multiple lenses: past and present, flora and fauna, aquatic and terrestrial, natural and managed. Each chapter evaluates natural processes for a specific ecosystem, describes drivers of change, and discusses how that ecosystem may be altered in the future. This book also explores the drivers of CaliforniaÕs ecological patterns and the history of the stateÕs various ecosystems, outlining how the challenges of climate change and invasive species and opportunities for regulation and stewardship could potentially affect the stateÕs ecosystems. The text explicitly incorporates both human impacts and conservation and restoration efforts and shows how ecosystems support human well-being. Edited by two esteemed ecosystem ecologists and with overviews by leading experts on each ecosystem, this definitive work will be indispensable for natural resource management and conservation professionals as well as for undergraduate or graduate students of CaliforniaÕs environment and curious naturalists.
Book Synopsis When the Killing's Done by : T.C. Boyle
Download or read book When the Killing's Done written by T.C. Boyle and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'How can you talk about being civil when innocent animals are being tortured to death? Civil? I'll be civil when the killing's done.' The island of Anacapa, off the coast of California, is overrun with black rats which are threatening the ancient population of ground-nesting birds. Alma Boyd Takesue of the National Park Service is the spokesperson for a campaign to exterminate these man-introduced rodents once and for all. Alma, highly self-disciplined with a stubborn streak, speaks as a conservationist, though the fact that her grandmother was once stranded on Anacapa for three weeks with nothing but thousands of crawling rats for company might explain some of her zeal. With days to go before the aerial rat-poisoning, Alma's plan is in danger of sabotage. Dave LaJoy and Anise Reed, a pair of notorious environmental activists, are recognisable from a distance by his knotted dreadlocks and her flame-red cyclone of hair. Dave is an electronics salesman with barely-controlled rages, for whom the plight of the rats is yet another of life's many injustices, along with lazy tramps and second-rate wine. Anise is a struggling folk singer with her own, terrible reasons for getting involved in 'the cause'. From the outset, Alma, Dave and Anise are at ideological loggerheads. But when Alma's sights turn to the infestation of non-native pigs on Santa Cruz - where Anise was brought up by her single mother and a clan of ranchers - the stakes are raised, and the debate threatens to boil over into something much more real... When the Killing's Done is T.C. Boyle's blistering new novel, a sweeping epic of family, ecology and the right to life - no matter what the fallout.
Book Synopsis Invasive Plants of California's Wildlands by : Carla C. Bossard
Download or read book Invasive Plants of California's Wildlands written by Carla C. Bossard and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Invasive nonnative plants threaten native species with habitat loss, displacement, and severe population declines, thus seriously reducing biodiversity. Invasive Plants of California's Wildlands is a tremendous source for land managers and others who are interested in protecting the rich natural heritage of California and surrounding states."--John C. Sawhill, President and CEO, The Nature Conservancy
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Book Synopsis Plant Invasions in Protected Areas by : Llewellyn C. Foxcroft
Download or read book Plant Invasions in Protected Areas written by Llewellyn C. Foxcroft and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-27 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive global review of all aspects of alien plant invasions in protected areas. It provides insights into advances in invasion ecology emanating from work in protected areas, and the link to locally relevant management support for protected areas. The book provides in-depth case studies, illuminating interesting and insightful knowledge that can be shared across the global protected area network. The book includes the collective understanding of 80 ecologists and managers to extract as much information as possible that will support the long-term management of protected areas, and the biodiversity and associated ecosystem services they maintain. “This outstanding volume draws together pretty much all that can be said on this topic, ranging from the science, through policy, to practical action”. Dr. Simon N. Stuart, IUCN Species Survival Commission, UK. "This important and timely volume addresses two of the most serious problems affecting biodiversity conservation today: assessing the extent to which protected areas are impacted by biological invasions and the complex problems of managing these impacts. Written by leading specialists, it provides a comprehensive overview of the issues and gives detailed examples drawn from protected areas across the world". Professor Vernon H. Heywood, School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, UK
Book Synopsis Recovery Plan for Insect and Plant Taxa from the Santa Cruz Mountains in California by : Connie Rutherford
Download or read book Recovery Plan for Insect and Plant Taxa from the Santa Cruz Mountains in California written by Connie Rutherford and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Assessment and Management of Plant Invasions by : James O. Luken
Download or read book Assessment and Management of Plant Invasions written by James O. Luken and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biological invasion of native plant communities is a high-priority problem in the field of environmental management. Resource managers, biologists, and all those involved in plant communities must consider ecological interactions when assessing both the effects of plant invasion and the long-term effects of management. Sections of the book cover human perceptions of invading plants, assessment of ecological interactions, direct management, and regulation and advocacy. It also includes an appendix with descriptive data for many of the worst weeds.
Book Synopsis Invasive and Introduced Plants and Animals by : Ian D. Rotherham
Download or read book Invasive and Introduced Plants and Animals written by Ian D. Rotherham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There have been many well-publicized cases of invasive species of plants and animals, often introduced unintentionally but sometimes on purpose, causing widespread ecological havoc. Examples of such alien invasions include pernicious weeds such as Japanese knotweed, an introduced garden ornamental which can grow through concrete, the water hyacinth which has choked tropical waterways, and many introduced animals which have out-competed and displaced local fauna. This book addresses the broader context of invasive and exotic species, in terms of the perceived threats and environmental concerns which surround alien species and ecological invasions. As a result of unprecedented scales of environmental change, combined with rapid globalisation, the mixing of cultures and diversity, and fears over biosecurity and bioterrorism, the known impacts of particular invasions have been catastrophic. However, as several chapters show, reactions to some exotic species, and the justifications for interventions in certain situations, including biological control by introduced natural enemies, rest uncomfortably with social reactions to ethnic cleansing and persecution perpetrated across the globe. The role of democracy in deciding and determining environmental policy is another emerging issue. In an increasingly multicultural society this raises huge questions of ethics and choice. At the same time, in order to redress major ecological losses, the science of reintroduction of native species has also come to the fore, and is widely accepted by many in nature conservation. However, with questions of where and when, and with what species or even species analogues, reintroductions are acceptable, the topic is hotly debated. Again, it is shown that many decisions are based on values and perceptions rather than objective science. Including a wide range of case studies from around the world, his book raises critical issues to stimulate a much wider debate.
Book Synopsis Integrating Ecology and Conservation in an Invasive Species Context by : Jennifer A. Erskine Ogden
Download or read book Integrating Ecology and Conservation in an Invasive Species Context written by Jennifer A. Erskine Ogden and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Plant Conservation by : Noeleen Smyth
Download or read book Plant Conservation written by Noeleen Smyth and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pitcairn Island is a small volcanic Island in the South Central Pacific. Pitcairn famously is home to descendants of the "Bounty" mutineers who hid out there after seizing the ship from Captain Bligh. The flora of Pitcairn Island is of international interest due to the large ratio of endemic plant species on the island. The islanders imported a timber producing species called "Roseapple" (Syzygium jambos) to the island in the 1800's, it has now spread to cover most of the centre of the island, outcompeting the native forest and its endemic species. This research project investigated ways of controlling "Roseapple" and developed propagation protocols for many of the native and endemic species, which were used to replant areas where "Roseapple" was treated. The local community were fully involved with the project and an economic assessment of the cost of control and restoration was carried out. Genetic fingerprints were produced of the most threatened endemic species and recommendations for their ongoing conservation are outlined.
Book Synopsis Detecting and Responding to Alien Plant Incursions by : John R. Wilson
Download or read book Detecting and Responding to Alien Plant Incursions written by John R. Wilson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to the proactive management of alien plants, synthesising the most current global theory and best management practice.
