Large-Scale Landscape Experiments(1st Edition) Lessons from Tumut (Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation) by DavidB. Lindenmayer Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2009 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-70778-7, ISBN: 0-521-70778-1
"Written in an informal and engaging style, Saving the Earth as a Career is an ideal resource for students and professionals pursuing a career in conservation. The book explores the major skills needed to become an effective conservation professional by offering useful advice on a range of topics. Chapters include: Is this the right career for you? Designing a program of study Designing and executing a project Attending confere ..."
"Long-term ecological data are critical for informing long-term trends in biodiversity and trends in environmental change. The Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) is a major initiative of the Australian Government and one of its key areas of investment is to provide funding for a network of long-term ecological research plots around Australia (LTERN).This book highlights some of the temporal changes in the environment and/or in ..."
"Long-term monitoring programs are fundamental to understanding the natural environment and managing major environmental problems. Yet they are often done very poorly and ineffectively. This second edition of the highly acclaimed Effective Ecological Monitoring describes what makes monitoring programs successful and how to ensure that long-term monitoring studies persist.The book has been fully revised and updated but remains concise, il ..."
"This text is divided into eight chapters which follow the life of the Central Highlands eucalypt forest in Australia, from high up in the tree canopy right down to the leaf matter on the forest floor."
"The conservation of Earth's forest ecosystems is one of the great environmental challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. All of Earth's ecosystems now face the spectre of the accelerated greenhouse effect and rates of change in climatic regimes that have hitherto been unknown. In addition, multiple use forestry – where forests are managed to provide for both a supply of wood and the conservation of biodiversity – can change the f ..."
Large-Scale Landscape Experiments(1st Edition) Lessons from Tumut (Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation) by DavidB. Lindenmayer Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2009 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-88156-2, ISBN: 0-521-88156-0
"Drawing on two decades of long-term ecological monitoring and knowledge exchange with farmers, Landcare groups and natural resource management experts, this book is a tool for building and enhancing natural assets in agricultural landscapes ..."
"The themes addressed in a book like this can only evolve from a prolonged
period of collaboration with many colleagues. ... Dan McKenney, Brendan
Mackey, Adrian Manning, Henry Nix, David Norton, Ian Oliver, Rod Peakall,
Matthew Pope, ... Ray Brereton, John Hickey, Sandy Gilmore, Mick Brown, Sue
McIntyre, Sarah Munks, Adrian Manning, David Norton, ... Anne Findlay did a
fantastic editing job on the text—and coped with a large quanti ..."
"An Ecological and Conservation Synthesis David B. Lindenmayer, Joern Fischer
... that is typically associated with multiple biotic responses to multiple interacting
processes of landscape change (Crome 1994). ... This is illustrated by the case of
the southern subspecies of the brown treecreeper (Climacteris picumnus
picumnus), a declining bird ... near Canberra, a previously stable population has
declined over the last decade to a ..."