Trees of the Carolinian Forest
Trees of the Carolinian Forest

Author: Gerry Waldron

Publisher: Erin, Ont. : Boston Mills Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13:

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This book identifies the 74 unique tree species of Canada's Carolinian Zone, a temperate stretch of southern Ontario, and offers advice on how to identify, preserve, use and propagate each species.

Canada's Vegetation
Canada's Vegetation

Author: Geoffrey A.J. Scott

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1995-01-10

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 0773565094

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Canada's Vegetation includes comprehensive sections on tundra, forest-tundra, boreal forest and mixed forest transition, prairie (steppe), Cordilleran environments in western North America, temperate deciduous forests, and wetlands. An overview of each ecosystem is provided, and equivalent vegetation types throughout the world are reviewed and compared with those in Canada. The integration of data on climate, soil, and vegetation in a single volume makes this an invaluable reference tool. Canada's Vegetation is sure to become a standard textbook for those in the environmental sciences.

Beyond the Global City
Beyond the Global City

Author: James Gordon Nelson

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 0773539859

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Looking beyond the smoke screen of Toronto's rapid and costly growth to re-envision sustainable planning in Ontario's neglected regions.

Lepidoptera and Conservation
Lepidoptera and Conservation

Author: T. R. New

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2013-09-13

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1118409256

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The third in a trilogy of global overviews of conservation of diverse and ecologically important insect groups. The first two were Beetles in Conservation (2010) and Hymenoptera and Conservation (2012). Each has different priorities and emphases that collectively summarise much of the progress and purpose of invertebrate conservation. Much of the foundation of insect conservation has been built on concerns for Lepidoptera, particularly butterflies as the most popular and best studied of all insect groups. The long-accepted worth of butterflies for conservation has led to elucidation of much of the current rationale of insect species conservation, and to definition and management of their critical resources, with attention to the intensively documented British fauna ‘leading the world’ in this endeavour. In Lepidoptera and Conservation, various themes are treated through relevant examples and case histories, and sufficient background given to enable non-specialist access. Intended for not only entomologists but conservation managers and naturalists due to its readable approach to the subject.

Handbook of Ecological Restoration
Handbook of Ecological Restoration

Author: Martin R. Perrow

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-09-05

Total Pages: 634

ISBN-13: 9780521791298

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The two volumes of this handbook provide a comprehensive account of the emerging and vibrant science of the ecological restoration of both habitats and species. Ecological restoration aims to achieve complete structural and functional, self-maintaining biological integrity following disturbance. In practice, any theoretical model is modified by a number of economic, social and ecological constraints. Consequently, material that might be considered as rehabilitation, enhancement, reconstruction or re-creation is also included. Restoration in Practice provides details of state-of-the-art restoration practice in a range of biomes within terrestrial and aquatic (marine, coastal and freshwater) ecosystems. Policy and legislative issues on all continents are also outlined and discussed. The accompanying volume, Principles of Restoration defines the underlying principles of restoration ecology. The Handbook of Ecological Restoration will be an invaluable resource to anyone concerned with the restoration, rehabilitation, enhancement or creation of habitats in aquatic or terrestrial systems, throughout the world.