Author: San Francisco Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Catalogue No. 11
Author: San Francisco Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
The Publishers Weekly
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1272
Book Description
Bulletin of the Entomological Society of America
Author: Entomological Society of AmericaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Entomology
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record
Author: Stanley's Dream
Author: Jacalyn DuffinPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773557814
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
In 1964–65, an international team of thirty-eight scientists and assistants, led by Montreal physician Stanley Skoryna, sailed to the mysterious Rapa Nui (Easter Island) to conduct an unprecedented survey of its biosphere. Born of Cold War concerns about pollution, overpopulation, and conflict, and initially conceived as the first of two trips, the project was designed to document the island's status before a proposed airport would link the one thousand people living in humanity's remotest community to the rest of the world – its germs, genes, culture, and economy. Based on archival papers, diaries, photographs, and interviews with nearly twenty members of the original team, Stanley's Dream sets the expedition in its global context within the early days of ecological research and the understudied International Biological Program. Jacalyn Duffin traces the origins, the voyage, the often-complicated life within the constructed camp, the scientific preoccupations, the role of women, the resultant reports, films, and publications, and the previously unrecognized accomplishments of the project, including a goodwill tour of South America, the delivery of vaccines, and the discovery of a wonder drug. For Rapa Nui, the expedition coincided with its rebellion against the colonizing Chilean military, resulting in its first democratic election. For Canada, it reflected national optimism as the country prepared for its centennial and adopted its own flag. Ending with Duffin's own journey to the island to uncover the legacy of the study and the impact of the airport, and to elicit local memories, Stanley's Dream is an entertaining and poignant account of a long-forgotten but important Canadian-led international expedition.
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Author: American Bookfinder and Serially American Book Prices Current
Author: Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory
Author: Carolyn Farquhar UlrichPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1994
Book Description
Foundations of Ecology
Author: Leslie A. RealPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022618210X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 920
Book Description
Assembled here for the first time in one volume are forty classic papers that have laid the foundations of modern ecology. Whether by posing new problems, demonstrating important effects, or stimulating new research, these papers have made substantial contributions to an understanding of ecological processes, and they continue to influence the field today. The papers span nearly nine decades of ecological research, from 1887 on, and are organized in six sections: foundational papers, theoretical advances, synthetic statements, methodological developments, field studies, and ecological experiments. Selections range from Connell's elegant account of experiments with barnacles to Watt's encyclopedic natural history, from a visionary exposition by Grinnell of the concept of niche to a seminal essay by Hutchinson on diversity. Six original essays by contemporary ecologists and a historian of ecology place the selections in context and discuss their continued relevance to current research. This combination of classic papers and fresh commentaries makes Foundations of Ecology both a convenient reference to papers often cited today and an essential guide to the intellectual and conceptual roots of the field. Published with the Ecological Society of America.
Ecological Methods in Forest Pest Management
Author: David WainhousePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198505647
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Throughout the world there is a need to control forest insect pests. This text focuses predominantly on insect pests, but many examples relate to fungal pathogens, saome of which are vectored by forest insects. It looks at the development of Integrated Pest Management (IPM).