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Author: David R. Given
Publisher: National Museums of Canada, National Museum of Natural Sciences
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 80
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKStudy of arctic-alpine vascular plants around the shores of Lake Superior.
Author: Barbara Coffin
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 492
ISBN-13: 0816616892
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides information on status, habitat, identification, and conservation recommendations for endangered species of plants, animals, and insects
Author: James H. Soper
Publisher: National Museum of Natural Sciences, National Museums of Canada
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 604
ISBN-13: 9780660130538
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Paul A. Keddy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-04-17
Total Pages: 629
ISBN-13: 1316727858
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresenting a global and interdisciplinary approach to plant ecology, this much-awaited new edition of the book Plants and Vegetation integrates classical themes with the latest ideas, models, and data. Keddy draws on extensive teaching experience to bring the field to life, guiding students through essential concepts with numerous real-world examples and full-colour illustrations throughout. The chapters begin by presenting the wider picture of the origin of plants and their impact on the Earth, before exploring the search for global patterns in plants and vegetation. Chapters on resources, stress, competition, herbivory, and mutualism explore causation, and a concluding chapter on conservation addresses the concern that one-third of all plant species are at risk of extinction. The scope of this edition is broadened further by a new chapter on population ecology, along with extensive examples including South African deserts, the Guyana Highlands of South America, Himalayan forests and arctic alpine environments.
Author: Bryan A Barlow
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-08-14
Total Pages: 559
ISBN-13: 9004631453
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John L. Riley
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2013-10-01
Total Pages: 545
ISBN-13: 0773589821
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNorth America's Great Lakes country has experienced centuries of upheaval. Its landscapes are utterly changed from what they were five hundred years ago. The region's superabundant fish and wildlife and its magnificent forests and prairies astonished European newcomers who called it an earthly paradise but then ushered in an era of disease, warfare, resource depletion, and land development that transformed it forever. The Once and Future Great Lakes Country is a history of environmental change in the Great Lakes region, looking as far back as the last ice age, and also reflecting on modern trajectories of change, many of them positive. John Riley chronicles how the region serves as a continental crossroads, one that experienced massive declines in its wildlife and native plants in the centuries after European contact, and has begun to see increased nature protection and re-wilding in recent decades. Yet climate change, globalization, invasive species, and urban sprawl are today exerting new pressures on the region’s ecology. Covering a vast geography encompassing two Canadian provinces and nine American states, The Once and Future Great Lakes Country provides both a detailed ecological history and a broad panorama of this vast region. It blends the voices of early visitors with the hopes of citizens now.
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 150
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stacy S. Kowtko
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2009-11-25
Total Pages: 1039
ISBN-13: 0313350892
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis timely set invites readers to celebrate the most beautiful and environmentally important places in the United States. Each of the United States boasts numerous special places that are significant for their biodiversity, ecology, habitats for rare and endangered species, or other qualities that make them unique and worthy of preservation. These sites range from nature preserves to state and national parks, wildlife areas, ecosystems that provide a home to diverse flora and fauna, and even scenic vistas. The five volumes of America's Natural Places examine over 200 of the most spectacular and important of these places, with each entry describing the importance of the area, the flora and fauna that it supports, threats to the survival of the region, and what is being done to protect it. Organized by state within regional volumes, this encyclopedia both informs the reader about the wide variety of natural areas across the country and identifies places nearby that demonstrate that preserving such treasurers is of immediate importance to every U.S. citizen.
Author: Nancy Scott
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2015-01-03
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1459724437
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe natural history of Lake Nipigon, the primary watershed feeding the Great Lakes, is explored, as well as the evolving human history of the area , from its aboriginal prehistory, through first European contact, the fur-trade era, resource development, and ultimately to the communities that exist there today.
Author: Harold H. Prince
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2018-05-04
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 1351087622
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book represents the proceedings of the firstGreat Lakes Costal Wetlands Colloquium (November 5-7, 1984; East Lansing, Michigan). The theme wasNatural and Manipulated Water Levels in Great Lakes Wetlands. This material constitutes both Great Lakes wetlands and the state of understanding about them. It is intended to provide fisheries and wildlife biologists, ecologists, aquatic resource managers and planners and environmental scientists information about the coastal wetlands in regard to eight priority areas. The colloquium and publication of the proceedings were cosponsored by Sea Grant Program and Environment Canada.
