Colin R. Townsend

Ecological Applications

Toward a Sustainable World

Buch

Ecological Applications offers a progressive examination of the way ecological theory can be applied to remedy the many problems confronting us. The text moves through the levels of individual organisms, populations, communities, and ecosystems, culminating with the macroecological scale of landscape, regional, and global issues. The book is designed to grab the reader's interest with real-life problems but also to instil an understanding of the fundamentals of ecology.Applications including species conservation, pest control, harvest management, biosecurity, restoration, and reserve design are explored in both terrestrial and aquatic setting… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4051-3698-3
EAN: 9781405136983
Produktnummer: 19361907
Verlag: Wiley
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Seitenangabe: 328 S.
Masse: H24.6 cm x B18.7 cm x D1.8 cm 819 g
Gewicht: 819

Über den Autor

Colin Townsend obtained his DPhil at Sussex before taking up teaching positions at Oxford University and the University of East Anglia. In 1989 he moved from the UK to New Zealand, where he was appointed Chair of Zoology at the University of Otago; he is now Director of the Ecology, Conservation and Biodiversity Research Group at Otago.