A Practitioner's Guide to Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Practitioner's Guide to Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation write by Nicole Silk. This book was released on 2013-04-10. A Practitioner's Guide to Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Practitioner's Guide to Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation brings together knowledge and experience from conservation practitioners and experts around the world to help readers understand the global challenge of conserving biodiversity in freshwater ecosystems. More importantly, it offers specific strategies and suggestions for managers to use in establishing new conservation initiatives or improving the effectiveness of existing initiatives. The book: offers an understanding of fundamental issues by explaining how ecosystems are structured and how they support biodiversity; provides specific information and approaches for identifying areas most in need of protection; examines promising strategies that can help reduce biodiversity loss; and describes design considerations and methods for measuring success within an adaptive management framework. The book draws on experience and knowledge gained during a five-year project of The Nature Conservancy known as the Freshwater Initiative, which brought together a range of practitioners to create a learning laboratory for testing ideas, approaches, tools, strategies, and methods. For professionals involved with land or water management-including state and federal agency staff, scientists and researchers working with conservation organizations, students and faculty involved with freshwater issues or biodiversity conservation, and policymakers concerned with environmental issues-the book represents an important new source of information, ideas, and approaches.
The GEO Handbook on Biodiversity Observation Networks
The GEO Handbook on Biodiversity Observation Networks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The GEO Handbook on Biodiversity Observation Networks write by Michele Walters. This book was released on 2016-11-25. The GEO Handbook on Biodiversity Observation Networks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Biodiversity observation systems are almost everywhere inadequate to meet local, national and international (treaty) obligations. As a result of alarmingly rapid declines in biodiversity in the modern era, there is a strong, worldwide desire to upgrade our monitoring systems, but little clarity on what is actually needed and how it can be assembled from the elements which are already present. This book intends to provide practical guidance to broadly-defined biodiversity observation networks at all scales, but predominantly the national scale and higher. This is a practical how-to book with substantial policy relevance. It will mostly be used by technical specialists with a responsibility for biodiversity monitoring to establish and refine their systems. It is written at a technical level, but one that is not discipline-bound: it should be intelligible to anyone in the broad field with a tertiary education.
The Business of Water
The Business of Water - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Business of Water write by Steve Maxwell. This book was released on 2011-01-12. The Business of Water available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Freshwater Ecology and Conservation
Freshwater Ecology and Conservation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Freshwater Ecology and Conservation write by Jocelyne Hughes. This book was released on 2018-11-30. Freshwater Ecology and Conservation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This practical manual of freshwater ecology and conservation provides a state-of-the-art review of the approaches and techniques used to measure, monitor, and conserve freshwater ecosystems. It offers a single, comprehensive, and accessible synthesis of the vast amount of literature for freshwater ecology and conservation that is currently dispersed in manuals, toolkits, journals, handbooks, 'grey' literature, and websites. Successful conservation outcomes are ultimately built on a sound ecological framework in which every species must be assessed and understood at the individual, community, catchment and landscape level of interaction. For example, freshwater ecologists need to understand hydrochemical storages and fluxes, the physical systems influencing freshwaters at the catchment and landscape scale, and the spatial and temporal processes that maintain species assemblages and their dynamics. A thorough understanding of all these varied processes, and the techniques for studying them, is essential for the effective conservation and management of freshwater ecosystems.
Scientific Foundations of Zoos and Aquariums
Scientific Foundations of Zoos and Aquariums - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Scientific Foundations of Zoos and Aquariums write by Allison B. Kaufman. This book was released on 2019-01-03. Scientific Foundations of Zoos and Aquariums available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Using first-person stories and approachable scientific reviews, this volume explores how zoos conduct and support science around the world.
