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The Balance of Nature?

Author : Stuart L. Pimm
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226668307
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book The Balance of Nature? written by Stuart L. Pimm and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why "the balance of nature"? Resilience. Temporal variability and the individual species. The effects of food-web structure. The variability of the environment. Nonlinear dynamics, strange attractors, and chaos. Extinctions. Species differences and community structure as explanations of why introductions fail. Patterns in species composition. Food-web structure and community persistence. Community assembly; or why are there so many kinds of communities? Small-scale experimental removals of species. Food webs and resistance. Changes in total density and species composition. The consequences of introductions and extinctions. Multispecies models and their limitations. Conclusions and caveats.

The Balance of Nature

Author : John C. Kricher
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400830265
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Balance of Nature written by John C. Kricher and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of a balance of nature has been a dominant part of Western philosophy since before Aristotle, and it persists in the public imagination and even among some ecologists today. In this lively and thought-provoking book, John Kricher demonstrates that nature in fact is not in balance, nor has it ever been at any stage in Earth's history. He explains how and why this notion of a natural world in balance has endured for so long, and he shows why, in these times of extraordinary human influence on the planet's ecosystems, it is critical that we accept and understand that evolution is a fact of life, and that ecology is far more dynamic than we ever imagined. The Balance of Nature traces the fascinating history of the science of ecology and evolutionary biology, from the discipline's early innovators to the advent of Darwin and evolution, to the brilliant and inquisitive scientific minds of today. Blending insights and entertaining stories from his own remarkable life in science, Kricher reveals how evolution is a powerful engine that drives ecological change, how nature is constantly in flux and, in effect, quite naturally out of balance--and how notions to the contrary are misguided and ultimately hazardous to us all. The Balance of Nature forcefully argues that an understanding of the dynamic nature of ecology and evolution is essential to formulating policies of environmental ethics to guide humanity toward a more responsible stewardship of our planet's ecosystems.

The Balance of Nature and Human Impact

Author : Klaus Rohde
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107019613
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Balance of Nature and Human Impact written by Klaus Rohde and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores equilibrium and non-equilibrium in undisturbed and disturbed ecological systems, examining how human activities affect the balance/imbalance of nature.

A Dissertation Upon the Balance of Food and Numbers of Animated Nature

Author : Michael Thomas Sadler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book A Dissertation Upon the Balance of Food and Numbers of Animated Nature written by Michael Thomas Sadler and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Balance on Nature's Commons

Author : Mansel Keith Presnell
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1398475068
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (984 download)

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Download or read book Balance on Nature's Commons written by Mansel Keith Presnell and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Balance on Nature’s Commons is a ‘must read’ for anyone aspiring to be an environmental activist, anyone concerned about anthropogenic altercation of environmental balance, and anyone involved in decision-making relevant to those issues. The narrative is written in an easy-to-follow non-academic style that calls the cards as the author sees them. It is intended to be thought-provoking and is well studded with ‘curved balls’. The author clearly explains the concept of ‘Natural Commons’ and their importance for maintaining the integrity of the ‘Web of Life’, which coincidently includes humanity. Unlike much that is written about environmental priorities, the text also includes a substantive section suggesting how the priorities might be addressed. Have we the will? The multi-disciplinary approach may bemuse the specialist, but it provides material that everyone can empathise with.

The Liberation of Life

Author : Charles Birch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521315142
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book The Liberation of Life written by Charles Birch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985-01-10 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the liberation of the concept of life from the bondage fashioned by the interpreters of life ever since biology began, and about the liberation of the life of humans and non-humans alike from the bondage of social structures and behaviour, which now threatens the fullness of life's possibilities if not survival itself. It falls into a tradition of writings about human problems from a perspective informed by biology. It rejects the mechanistic model of life dominant in the Western world and develops an alternative 'ecological model' which is applicable to the life of the cell and the life of the human community. For the first time it brings together in one work the insights of modern biology with those of a modern holistic philosophy and a liberal theology in a way which challenges conventional approaches to science, agriculture, sociology, politics, economics, development and liberation movements.

Environmental Law and Contrasting Ideas of Nature

Author : Keith H. Hirokawa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139992457
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book Environmental Law and Contrasting Ideas of Nature written by Keith H. Hirokawa and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Law's ideas of nature appear in different doctrinal and institutional settings, historical periods, and political dialogues. Nature underlies every behavior, contract, or form of wealth, and in this broad sense influences every instance of market transaction or governmental intervention. Recognizing that law has embedded discrete constructions of nature helps in understanding how humans value their relationship with nature. This book offers a scholarly examination of the manner in which nature is constructed through law, both in the 'hard' sense of directly regulating human activities that impact nature, and in the 'soft' manner in which law's ideas of nature influence and are influenced by behaviors, values, and priorities. Traditional accounts of the intersection between law and nature generally focus on environmental laws that protect wilderness. This book will build on the constructivist observation that when considered as a culturally contingent concept, 'nature' is a self-perpetuating and self-reinforcing social creation.

Preserving Yellowstone's Natural Conditions

Author : James A. Pritchard
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496233050
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Preserving Yellowstone's Natural Conditions written by James A. Pritchard and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-10 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new edition James A. Pritchard has added a summary of recent developments in wildlife science and management and discusses historical continuities in the role of Yellowstone Park as a wildlife refuge and conservator.

The Balance of Nature

Author : Lorus Johnson Milne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book The Balance of Nature written by Lorus Johnson Milne and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Biology of Mutualism

Author : Douglas H. Boucher
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195053923
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book The Biology of Mutualism written by Douglas H. Boucher and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The view of nature as `red in tooth and claw', as a jungle in which competition and predation are the predominant themes, has long been important in both the scientific and popular literature. However, in the past decade another view has become widespread among ecologists: the idea that mutualisms--mutually beneficial interactions between species--are just as important as competition and predation. This book is one of the first to explore this theme. Ideas and theories applicable to all sorts of mutualisms are presented and, where appropriate, examined in the light of concrete data. Themes explored include: the organisms involved, both animal and plant; how specializations evolved once mutualisms formed; how mutualisms affect population dynamics and community structure; and the role of mutualisms in different environments. The book will be of special interest to ecologists and a wide range of biologists.

American Environmental History

Author : Carolyn Merchant
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231512384
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book American Environmental History written by Carolyn Merchant and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-31 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By studying the many ways diverse peoples have changed, shaped, and conserved the natural world over time, environmental historians provide insight into humanity's unique relationship with nature and, more importantly, are better able to understand the origins of our current environmental crisis. Beginning with the precolonial land-use practice of Native Americans and concluding with our twenty-first century concerns over our global ecological crisis, American Environmental History addresses contentious issues such as the preservation of the wilderness, the expulsion of native peoples from national parks, and population growth, and considers the formative forces of gender, race, and class. Entries address a range of topics, from the impact of rice cultivation, slavery, and the growth of the automobile suburb to the effects of the Russian sea otter trade, Columbia River salmon fisheries, the environmental justice movement, and globalization. This illustrated reference is an essential companion for students interested in the ongoing transformation of the American landscape and the conflicts over its resources and conservation. It makes rich use of the tools and resources (climatic and geological data, court records, archaeological digs, and the writings of naturalists) that environmental historians rely on to conduct their research. The volume also includes a compendium of significant people, concepts, events, agencies, and legislation, and an extensive bibliography of critical films, books, and Web sites.

From an Antagonistic to a Synergistic Predator Prey Perspective

Author : Tore Johannessen
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0124201113
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (242 download)

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Download or read book From an Antagonistic to a Synergistic Predator Prey Perspective written by Tore Johannessen and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an Antagonistic to a Synergistic Predator Prey Perspective: Bifurcations in Marine Ecosystems is a groundbreaking reference that challenges the widespread perception that predators generally have a negative impact on the abundance of their prey, and it proposes a novel paradigm — Predator-prey Synergism — in which both predator and prey enhance abundance by their co-existence. Using this model, the text explains a number of issues that appear paradoxical in the case of a negative predator-prey relationship, including observed ecosystem bifurcations (regime shifts), ecosystem resilience, red tides in apparently nutrient depleted water, and the dominance of grazed phytoplankton over non-grazed species under high grazing pressure. This novel paradigm can also be used to predict the potential impact of global warming on marine ecosystems, identify how marine ecosystem may respond to gradual environmental changes, and develop possible measures to mitigate the negative impact of increasing temperature in marine ecosystems. This book approaches the long-standing question of what generates recruitment variability in marine fishes and invertebrates in an engaging and unique way that students and researchers in marine ecosystems will understand. Introduces a new paradigm, Predator-prey Synergism, as a building block on which to construct new ecological theories. It suggests that Predator-prey Synergism is important in some terrestrial ecosystems and is in agreement with the punctuated equilibria theory of evolution (i.e., stepwise evolution). Suggests a general solution to the recruitment puzzle in marine organisms Proposes a holistic hypothesis for marine spring blooming ecosystems by considering variability enhancing and variability dampening processes Asserts that fisheries will induce variability in marine ecosystems and alter the energy flow patterns in predictable ways

CCE Awareness Science Book-5

Author : Mukul Sahgal
Publisher : S. Chand Publishing
ISBN 13 : 8121926750
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (219 download)

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Download or read book CCE Awareness Science Book-5 written by Mukul Sahgal and published by S. Chand Publishing. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning objectives clearly lay down the expected outcome of each chapter.Emphasis is given on understanding concepts using very simple explanations and language. Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) are included in exercises as recommended in CCE.

Pesticide Chemistry: Human Welfare and Environment

Author : P. Doyle
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483150860
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book Pesticide Chemistry: Human Welfare and Environment written by P. Doyle and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-09-11 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pesticide Chemistry: Human Welfare and the Environment, Volume I: Synthesis and Structure-Activity Relationships covers the proceedings of the Fifth International Congress of Pesticide Chemistry. The book covers research topics that tackle both improved agricultural production and public health concerns. The papers presented in this volume are organized into three parts. The first part covers the plenary lectures that discuss the political, economic, and philosophical aspects of pesticides for human welfare and pesticide research for the improvement of human welfare. The second part discusses synthesis of pesticides and growth regulators, which include synthons, avermegtins, and pyrethroid. The third part tackles chemical structure and biological activities, such as structure-activity relationships in derivatives of anticholinesterase insecticides and the fungicidal activity of acyl anilines. The book will be of great interest to professionals and researchers whose work involves pesticides.

Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

Author : Dan Flores
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 132400617X
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America written by Dan Flores and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Kirkus Review's Best Nonfiction Books of 2022 A deep-time history of animals and humans in North America, by the best-selling and award-winning author of Coyote America. In 1908, near Folsom, New Mexico, a cowboy discovered the remains of a herd of extinct giant bison. By examining flint points embedded in the bones, archeologists later determined that a band of humans had killed and butchered the animals 12,450 years ago. This discovery vastly expanded America’s known human history but also revealed the long-standing danger Homo sapiens presented to the continent’s evolutionary richness. Distinguished author Dan Flores’s ambitious history chronicles the epoch in which humans and animals have coexisted in the “wild new world” of North America—a place shaped both by its own grand evolutionary forces and by momentous arrivals from Asia, Africa, and Europe. With portraits of iconic creatures such as mammoths, horses, wolves, and bison, Flores describes the evolution and historical ecology of North America like never before. The arrival of humans precipitated an extraordinary disruption of this teeming environment. Flores treats humans not as a species apart but as a new animal entering two continents that had never seen our likes before. He shows how our long past as carnivorous hunters helped us settle America, initially establishing a coast-to-coast culture that lasted longer than the present United States. But humanity’s success had devastating consequences for other creatures. In telling this epic story, Flores traces the origins of today’s “Sixth Extinction” to the spread of humans around the world; tracks the story of a hundred centuries of Native America; explains how Old World ideologies precipitated 400 years of market-driven slaughter that devastated so many ancient American species; and explores the decline and miraculous recovery of species in recent decades. In thrilling narrative style, informed by genomic science, evolutionary biology, and environmental history, Flores celebrates the astonishing bestiary that arose on our continent and introduces the complex human cultures and individuals who hastened its eradication, studied America’s animals, and moved heaven and earth to rescue them. Eons in scope and continental in scale, Wild New World is a sweeping yet intimate Big History of the animal-human story in America.

Boys' Life

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boys' Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1932-02 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.

Narnia and the Fields of Arbol

Author : Matthew T. Dickerson
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813173191
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Narnia and the Fields of Arbol written by Matthew T. Dickerson and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2008-12-19 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable breadth of C. S. Lewis's (1898–1963) work is nearly as legendary as the fantastical tales he so inventively crafted. A variety of themes emerge in his literary output, which spans the genres of nonfiction, fantasy, science fiction, and children's literature, but much of the scholarship examining his work focuses on religion or philosophy. Overshadowed are Lewis's views on nature and his concern for environmental stewardship, which are present in most of his work. In Narnia and the Fields of Arbol: The Environmental Vision of C. S. Lewis, authors Matthew Dickerson and David O'Hara illuminate this important yet overlooked aspect of the author's visionary work. Dickerson and O'Hara go beyond traditional theological discussions of Lewis's writing to investigate themes of sustainability, stewardship of natural resources, and humanity's relationship to wilderness. The authors examine the environmental and ecological underpinnings of Lewis's work by exploring his best-known works of fantasy, including the seven books of the Chronicles of Narnia and the three novels collectively referred to as the Space Trilogy. Taken together, these works reveal Lewis's enduring environmental concerns, and Dickerson and O'Hara offer a new understanding of his pioneering style of fiction. An avid outdoorsman, Lewis deftly combined an active imagination with a deep appreciation for the natural world. Narnia and the Fields of Arbol, the first book-length work on the subject, explores the marriage of Lewis's environmental passion with his skill as a novelist and finds the author's legacy to have as much in common with the agrarian environmentalism of Wendell Berry as it does with the fantasy of J. R. R. Tolkien. In an era of increasing concern about deforestation, climate change, and other environmental issues, Lewis's work remains as pertinent as ever. The widespread adaption of his work in film lends credence to the author's staying power as an influential voice in both fantastical fiction and environmental literature. With Narnia and the Fields of Arbol, Dickerson and O'Hara have written a timely work of scholarship that offers a fresh perspective on one of the most celebrated authors in literary history.