The Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology 2011, Volume 1223

Herausgeber: Ostfeld, Richard S; Schlesinger, William H

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

As in past installments of "The Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology" series, this year's volume contains a diverse collection of timely reviews in conservation biology and scientific, policy, and management implications, including reviews in the following areas: ecosystem services provided by bats; emerging indirect and long-term road salt effects on ecosystems; environmental ethics and human ecology; environmental impacts of mountaintop mining valley fill operations for aquatic ecosystems of the Central Appalachians; urban biodiversity, patterns and mechanisms; anthropogenic impacts on marine ecosystems in Antarctica; understanding the role of co-factors in driving amphibian losses; tropical forest ecosystems and unsustainable hunting. NOTE: Annals volumes are available for sale as individual books or as a journal. For information on institutional journal subscriptions, please click here. ACADEMY MEMBERS: Please contact the New York Academy of Sciences directly to place your order (www.nyas.org). Members of the New York Academy of Science receive full-text access to the Annals online and discounts on print volumes. Please visit http: //www.nyas.org/MemberCenter/Join.aspx for more information about becoming a member.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 175mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9781573318334
• ISBN-10: 1573318337
• Artikelnr.: 35351882

Autorenporträt

Richard S. Ostfeld is the editor of The Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology 2011, Volume 1223, published by Wiley. William H. Schlesinger is a biogeochemist and the retired president of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, an independent not-for-profit environmental research organization in Millbrook, New York.

Inhaltsangabe

Ecosystem services provided by bats / Thomas H. Kunz [and others]
The environmental costs of mountaintop mining valley fill operations for
aquatic ecosystems of the central Appalachians / Emily S. Bernhardt and
Margaret A. Palmer
Emerging indirect and long-term road salt effects on ecosystems / Stuart
E.G. Findlay and Victoria R. Kelly
Urban biodiversity : patterns and mechanisms / Stanley H. Faeth, Christofer
Bang and Susanna Saari
Anthropogenic impacts on marine ecosystems in Antarctica / Richard B.
Aronson [and others]
The complexity of amphibian population declines : understanding the role of
cofactors in driving amphibian losses / Andrew R. Blaustein [and others]
The empty forest revisited / David S. Wilkie [and others]