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Ponds and pools are a common feature of our landscape there are at least ten times as many ponds as lakes in the UK and they are also important wildlife habitats This book provides a comprehensive and detailed account of these freshwater habitats

365 inspirational suggestions for enjoying nature These Random Acts of Wildness will encourage you to fall in love with learn about or even help wildlife and wild places near you

When four friends are horrified to find their swimming hole filled with green slime a mysterious naturalist named Riparia helps the children understand why the water became polluted and together they figure out how they can bring clean water back to the river they all love

A thoroughly updated and accessible textbook featuring topical issues such as sea level rise eutrophication facilitation restoration and conservation This third edition is richly illustrated in colour packed with examples from every major continent and wetland type and features end of chapter questions to review and extend students learning

The perfect guide for any gardener looking for inspiration on how to create a pollinator friendly garden all year round

Bringing together original research and analysis with topical case studies and emerging best practices this fifth State of the Apes volume is designed to further the ape conservation agenda around disease and health This title is also available as Open Access via Cambridge Core

A celebrated biologist s manifesto addressing a soil loss crisis accelerated by poor conservation practices and climate change

Ecology Concepts and Applications was written for students taking their first undergraduate course in ecology The authors have assumed that students in this one semester course have some knowledge of basic chemistry and mathematics and have had a course in general biology which included introductions to evolution physiology and biological diversity

Easy to use gardening guide to help you encourage different types of insect pollinators into your garden

Panarchy is a new term coined from the name of the Greek god Pan a symbol of universal nature and associated with unpredictable change It represents an alternative framework for managing the issues that emerge from the interaction between people and nature That interaction generates countless surprises often the result of slow changes that can accumulate and unexpectedly flip an ecosystem or an economy into a qualitatively different state That state may be not only impoverished but also effectively irreversible Thus understanding how such change occurs is critical to achieving a sustainable society Developed from the work of the Resilience Alliance a worldwide group of leading organizations and individuals involved in ecological and economic research Panarchy provides a framework to understand the cycles of change in complex systems and to gauge if when and how they can be influenced This synopsis introduces lay readers and decision makers to this widely acclaimed line of inquiry and to the basic concept behind Panarchy published by Island Press

The bestselling textbook for undergraduate ecology courses Ecology is an easy to read and well organized text for instructors and students to explore the basics of the field Bowman and Hacker motivate students with an engaging case study driven conceptual approach that highlights relevant applications and data driven examples

How do we work with nature rather than against it both harvesting and conserving The environmentalist Jeremy Purseglove shares a lifetime of experience

b From Martin Dorey lifelong camper campervanner and committed environmentalist a manifesto on how to camp greener and more responsibly while enjoying the outdoors b

Invasive species have become a major environmental issue in ecosystems across the world Julie Lockwood considers how plant and animal species are introduced to new environments the ecological social and economic impacts they can have and approaches to managing them against the broader backdrop of environmental change

Ecology is the science of how organisms interact with each other and with their environment to form communities and ecosystems This book explains the principles of ecological thinking how ecology affects our everyday lives and how it guides environmental policy especially in the light of current and future environmental challenges

There is much to love between this book s covers There are many eureka moments in Life Sculpted and some truly beautiful ones Eugenia Bone Wall Street Journal Meet the menagerie of lifeforms that dig crunch bore and otherwise reshape our planet Did you know elephants dig ballroom sized caves alongside volcanoes Or that parrotfish chew coral reefs and poop sandy beaches Or that our planet once hosted a five ton dinosaur crunching alligator cousin In fact almost since its fascinating start life was boring Billions of years ago bacteria algae and fungi began breaking down rocks in oceans a role they still perform today About a half billion years ago animal ancestors began drilling scraping gnawing or breaking rocky seascapes In turn their descendants crunched through the materials of life itself shells wood and bones Today such bioeroders continue to shape our planet from the bacteria that devour our teeth to the mighty moon snail always hunting for food as evidenced by tiny snail made boreholes in clams and other moon snails There is no better guide to these lifeforms than Anthony J Martin a popular science author paleontologist and co discoverer of the first known burrowing dinosaur Following the crumbs of lichens sponge

From the author of i Losing Earth i a beautifully told exploration of our post natural world that points the way to a new mode of ecological writing

Often regarded as pests beavers are actually ecological Swiss army knives capable of tackling any landscape problem

A celebration of sandwiches

Adventures with Britain''s wild mammals. Britain is teeming with wildlife, often in the most unexpected places. There are quarries where rare bats hang out with pot-smoking teens. In Glasgows urban parks water voles are thriving without water. Our coastlines are bustling with grey and harbour seals. Thats the good news. The bad news is that a quarter of British mammals are at imminent risk of extinction. Tim Kendall and Fiona Mathews take us on a safari unlike any other. Armed with binoculars, a Thermos and, regrettably, an inexhaustible supply of puns, they travel from Scotland to the Isles of Scilly in search of their elusive subjects.