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The Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology 2012

By: Richard S Ostfeld
246 pages, b/w photos, b/w illustrations, tables
The Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology 2012
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This fifth installment of The Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology continues this series outstanding reviews in diverse topics in ecology and conservation science and policy.

Included are papers on protection of orangutans; environmental governmentality, economic corporations, and ecological ethics; impact of Nature on experience and cognitive and mental health; consequences of vulture population declines worldwide; ecology and management of white-tailed deer; controlling the spread of invasive plants; reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation; the boreal forest ecosystem; effects of organic farming on biodiversity and ecosystems; ecology of anopheles mosquitoes; ecology and conservation biology of avian malaria; and climate change and ecology of Artic vertebrates.

Contents

Eco-evolutionary dynamics in a changing world 1
Ilkka Hanski

The influence of species interactions on geographic range change under climate change 18
Jessica J. Hellmann, Kirsten M. Prior, and Shannon L. Pelini

Not by science alone: why orangutan conservationists must think outside the box 29
Erik Meijaard, Serge Wich, Marc Ancrenaz, and Andrew J. Marshall

Ecology and management of white-tailed deer in a changing world 45
William J. McShea

Dropping dead: causes and consequences of vulture population declines worldwide 57
Darcy L. Ogada, Felicia Keesing, and Munir Z. Virani

Modeling population dynamics, landscapes structure, and management decisions for controlling the spread of invasive plants 72
Paul Caplat, Shaun Coutts, and Yvonne M. Buckley

Sustainable seaweed cutting? The rockweed (Ascophyllum nodosum) industry of Maine and the Maritime Provinces 84
Robin Hadlock Seeley and William H. Schlesinger

Artificial persons against nature: environmental governmentality, ecomomic corporations, and ecological ethics 104
Michael S. Northcott

The impacts of nature experience on human cognitive function and mental health 118
Gregory N. Bratman, J. Paul Hamilton, and Gretchen C. Daily

Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) : game changer or just another quick fix? 137
Oscar Venter and Lian Pin Koh

The boreal forest as a cultural landscape 151
Edward A. Johnson and Kiyoko Miyanishi

Climate change and the ecology and evolution of Artic vertebrates 166
Oliver Gilg, Kit M. Kovacs, Jon Aars, Jérôme Fort, Gilles Gauthier, David Grémillet, Rolf A. Ims, Hans Meltofte, Jérôme Moreau, Eric Post, Niels Martin Schmidt, Glenn Yannic, and Loïc Bollache

Effects of organic farming on biodiversity and ecosystem services: taking landscape complexity into account 191
Camilla Winqvist, Johan Ahnström, and Jan Bengtsson

The ecology of Anopheles mosquitoes under climate change: case studies from the effects of deforestation in East African highlands 204
Yaw A. Afrane, Andrew K. Githeko, and Guiyun Yan

Ecology and conservation biology of avian malaria 211
Dennis A. LaPoine, Carter T. Atkinson, and Michael D. Samuel

Dams in the Cadillac Desert: downstream effects in a geomorphic context 227
John L. Sabo, Kevin Bestgen, Will Graf, Tushar Sinha, and Ellen E. Wohl

 

 

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By: Richard S Ostfeld
246 pages, b/w photos, b/w illustrations, tables
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