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Author: Rebecca Hogue Wojahn
Publisher: Lerner Publications
Published: 2009-08-01
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 0822576155
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGives readers an exciting glimpse into animals and their habitats while illuminating curriculum concepts related to food webs and biomes.
Author: Donald Wojahn
Publisher: Lerner Publications
Published: 2009-08-01
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 0761357165
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWelcome to a Southeast Asian mangrove forest! As you wade through the tangle of mangrove roots, it’s hard to tell where the ocean ends and the land begins. The mangrove forest is humming with life. A dog-faced water snake lures a school of archerfish with her wiggling tail, and a macaque swings through the branches in search of mangrove apples. Day and night in the mangrove forest, the hunt is on to find food - and to avoid becoming someone else’s next meal. All living things are connected to one another in a food chain, from animal to animal, animal to plant, plant to insect, and insect to animal. What path will you take to follow the food chain through the mangrove forest? Will you ... Creep along the branches with a clouded leopard as it stalks a wild pig? Play with otters as they wait for their shellfish to open in the sun? Soar through the dark with a flying fox in search of flowers and seeds? Follow all three chains and many more on this who-eats-what adventure!
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Publisher: American Geophysical Union
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 335
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Forest Resources Development Branch
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9789251034453
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert F. Scharpf
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 782
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Victor H. Rivera-Monroy
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-11-03
Total Pages: 407
ISBN-13: 3319622064
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents a comprehensive overview and analysis of mangrove ecological processes, structure, and function at the local, biogeographic, and global scales and how these properties interact to provide key ecosystem services to society. The analysis is based on an international collaborative effort that focuses on regions and countries holding the largest mangrove resources and encompasses the major biogeographic and socio-economic settings of mangrove distribution. Given the economic and ecological importance of mangrove wetlands at the global scale, the chapters aim to integrate ecological and socio-economic perspectives on mangrove function and management using a system-level hierarchical analysis framework. The book explores the nexus between mangrove ecology and the capacity for ecosystem services, with an emphasis on thresholds, multiple stressors, and local conditions that determine this capacity. The interdisciplinary approach and illustrative study cases included in the book will provide valuable resources in data, information, and knowledge about the current status of one of the most productive coastal ecosystem in the world.
Author: Sahadev Sharma
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2021-09-29
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 1839627999
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMangroves serve as one of the nature-based solutions for coastal communities. We are now almost at the tipping point where we can restore mangroves ecologically to mitigate climate change and enhance other important ecosystem services under the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. Mangrove Ecosystem Restoration focuses on mangrove ecosystem restoration, the ecosystem services mangroves provide, and how to manage and conserve mangroves. The three sections include eight chapters that cover such topics as evaluating mangrove degradation, forest recovery through seedling recruitment, natural regeneration of mangroves, advanced molecular biology for restoring mangroves, and more.
Author: Daniel Alongi
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2009-01-18
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 140204271X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDespite their importance in sustaining livelihoods for many people living along some of the world’s most populous coastlines, tropical mangrove forests are disappearing at an alarming rate. Occupying a crucial place between land and sea, these tidal ecosystems provide a valuable ecological and economic resource as important nursery grounds and breeding sites for many organisms, and as a renewable source of wood and traditional foods and medicines. Perhaps most importantly, they are accumulation sites for sediment, contaminants, carbon and nutrients, and offer significant protection against coastal erosion. This book presents a functional overview of mangrove forest ecosystems; how they live and grow at the edge of tropical seas, how they play a critical role along most of the world’s tropical coasts, and how their future might look in a world affected by climate change. Such a process-oriented approach is necessary in order to further understand the role of these dynamic forests in ecosystem function, and as a first step towards developing adequate strategies for their conservation and sustainable use and management. The book will provide a valuable resource for researchers in mangrove ecology as well as reference for resource managers.
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 474
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Arthur W. Magill
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 20
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKMonitoring human impact on outdoor recreation sites and view landscapes is necessary to evaluate influences which may require corrective action and to determine if management is achieving desired goals. An inexpensive method to monitor environmental change is to establish camera points and use repeat color slides. Successful monitoring from slides requires the observer to determine if there are increases or decreases of trees, shrubs, or herbaceous plants; bare ground or duff; screening by trees; and soil erosion. Illustrated guidelines are given for land managers who must monitor human impact on recreation sites and view landscapes. Slides taken at various intervals demonstrate how to detect differences in views of timber harvesting, disturbed sites, and recreation sites, and suggests what to look for in scenes with subjects viewed from various distances. By using the process, visual sensitivity for detecting and evaluating environmental change, using repeat color photography, should be increased.
