Conservation Of Great Plains Ecosystems Current Science Future Options

Author : S.R. Johnson,Aziz Bouzaher
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401104395

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Conservation of Great Plains Ecosystems: Current Science, Future Options by S.R. Johnson,Aziz Bouzaher Pdf

A multidisciplinary and multifaceted approach is employed to identify principal ecosystems and natural resources in the U.S. Great Plains that are at risk and that should receive priority for protection. The authors are drawn from a variety of disciplines and approaches, their ideas being presented as a pooling or harvest, rather than as a consensus. The 25 chapters provide background and in-depth discussion of multiple issues/problems related to Great Plains stewardship for future generations. The status and trends of major resources of the Great Plains within an historical, ecological and management framework are categorized according to common goals across the disciplines and can be used to make recommendations for public policy, research and development, and institutions. The challenge for residents of the Great Plains is to merge multiple ecosystem concepts to improve the environment and to improve economic vitality.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 994 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biodiversity
ISBN : MINN:31951D01924849Y

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Status and Trends of the Nation's Biological Resources by Anonim Pdf

Author : Fritz L. Knopf,Fred B. Samson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781475727036

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Ecology and Conservation of Great Plains Vertebrates by Fritz L. Knopf,Fred B. Samson Pdf

The frontier images of America embrace endless horizons, majestic herds of native ungulates, and romanticized life-styles of nomadie peoples. The images were mere reflections of vertebrates living in harmony in an ecosystem driven by the unpre dictable local and regional effects of drought, frre, and grazing. Those effects, often referred to as ecological "disturbanees," are rather the driving forces on which species depended to create the spatial and temporal heterogeneity that favored ecological prerequisites for survival. Alandscape viewed by European descendants as monotony interrupted only by extremes in weather and commonly referred to as the "Great American Desert," this country was to be rushed through and cursed, a barrier that hindered access to the deep soils of the Oregon country, the rich minerals of California and Colorado, and the religious freedom sought in Utah. Those who stayed (for lack of resources or stamina) spent a century trying to moderate the ecological dynamics of Great Plains prairies by suppressing fires, planting trees and exotic grasses, poisoning rodents, diverting waters, and homogenizing the dynamies of grazing with endless fences-all creating bound an otherwise boundless vista. aries in Historically, travelers and settlers referred to the area of tallgrasses along the western edge of the deciduous forest and extending midway across Kansas as the "True Prairie. " The grasses thlnned and became shorter to the west, an area known then as the Great Plains.

Author : James Stubbendieck,Jessica L. Milby
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781496217752

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Legumes of the Great Plains by James Stubbendieck,Jessica L. Milby Pdf

This comprehensive guide of legumes of the Great Plains includes an in-depth description of 114 species with illustrations and distribution maps. It includes more than one hundred similar species with a description of how each differs from the main species.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Animal populations
ISBN : UCSD:31822023309412

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Our Living Resources by Anonim Pdf

Report provides information on distribution, abundance, and health of birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians, fishes, invertebrates, plants, terrestrial ecosystems, aquatic ecosystems, coastal and marine ecosystems, riparian ecosystems, the Great Plains, Interior West, Alaska, and Hawaii. It also discusses special issues: global climate change, human influences, non-native species, and habitat assessments.

Author : DIANE Publishing Company
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1995-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780788119101

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Our Lands by DIANE Publishing Company Pdf

Examines the state of environmental and natural resource policy in the 17 Western states; 1) establish environmental priorities; 2) create better pricing signals; 3)encourage voluntary initiatives; 4) work across political boundaries and within ecosystems; and 5) resolve disputes without litigation. Includes photographs.

Author : W. J. Rietveld
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Agroforestry
ISBN : MINN:31951D029777209

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Agroforestry and Sustainable Systems by W. J. Rietveld Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Agroforestry
ISBN : CHI:82604644

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General Technical Report RM. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Geology
ISBN : UCBK:C072479563

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U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper by Anonim Pdf

Author : Henk Folmer
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781843767091

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Frontiers of Environmental Economics by Henk Folmer Pdf

This is a book of uncompromising technical excellence, which does exactly what it promises to do: chart the cutting-edge frontiers of environmental and ecological economics, for the benefit of graduate students, professional academics, and policy making elites. The authors are mostly academic leaders in the field, the topics are hot . . . the contributors make the links between abstract theorizing and the concrete mental framing of issues that is a prerequisite for sound policy design . . . The papers in this collection exhibit rigorous and robust analytical frameworks, presented intuitively in clear words as well as mathematically, and harnessed to wide-ranging up-to-date bibliographies which quickly open the door into recent literature . . . this will be a book to keep on a convenient shelf for reference purposes . . . it is hard to imagine a graduate student reading this book and failing to spot opportunities to colonize new theoretical territory beyond the present frontier, or to explore empirically the areas outlined in these chapters. Geoffrey Bertram, Papers in Regional Science Top European and American scholars contribute to this cutting-edge volume on little-researched areas of environmental and resource economics. Topics include spatial economics, poverty and development, experimental economics, large-scale risk and its management, organizational economics, technological innovation and diffusion and many more. The common thread is the language and methodology of economics, yet the work aims to reach an audience wider than academia; others such as researchers and policymakers, in the public sector, professional staff in research institutes and think tanks, and environmental consultants will all benefit from an awareness of these crucial issues which, if not considered now, will become the problems of the future.

Author : Shabeg S. Sandhu,Brian D. Melzian,Edward R. Long,Walter G. Whitford,Barbara T. Walton
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401143431

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Monitoring Ecological Condition in the Western United States by Shabeg S. Sandhu,Brian D. Melzian,Edward R. Long,Walter G. Whitford,Barbara T. Walton Pdf

The monitoring of point sources by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the states, and the tribes has documented and helped reduce the levels of chemical stressors affecting our ecosystems. With the controls on point sources reducing chemical contamination, new environmental challenges associated with nonpoint sources have emerged. To adequately deal with these new problems, EPA's Office of Research and Development recognized the need to develop an overall under standing of the condition of our ecological resources, the trends in their condition, and the stressors affecting these systems on a broad scale. Toward this end, the En vironmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP) was established by EPA and has been strategically developing the scientific tools and techniques to monitor and assess the status and trends of aquatic ecosystems. EMAP scientists have developed new indicators and probability-based de signs to fill data gaps in the development of regional-scale assessments of our aquatic resources, as required in the Clean Water Act. We have a scientifically de fensible approach that allows: 100 percent coverage of the aquatic resources within broad geographic areas and the formulation of reference 'conditions for es tablishing the health of these resources. The use of these indicators and designs were successfully demonstrated in the landscapes, streams, and estuaries of the mid-Atlantic states as part of the Mid-Atlantic Integrated Assessment (MAlA).

Author : David M. Freeman
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781457109676

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Implementing the Endangered Species Act on the Platte Basin Water Commons by David M. Freeman Pdf

Water users of the Platte River Basin have long struggled to share this scarce commodity in the arid high plains, ultimately organizing collectively owned and managed water systems, allocating water along extensive stream systems, and integrating newer groundwater with existing surface-water uses. In 1973, the Endangered Species Act brought a new challenge: incorporating the habitat needs of four species-the whooping crane, piping plover, least tern, and pallid sturgeon-into its water-management agenda. Implementing the Endangered Species Act on the Platte Basin Water Commons tells of the negotiations among the U.S. Department of the Interior, the environmental community, and the states of Wyoming, Colorado, and Nebraska that took place from the mid-1970s to 2006. Ambitious talks among rival water users, environmentalists, state authorities, and the Department of the Interior finally resulted in the Platte River Habitat Recovery Program. Documenting how organizational interests found remedies within the conditions set by the Endangered Species Act, describing how these interests addressed habitat restoration, and advancing sociological propositions under which water providers transcended self-interest and produced an agreement benefiting the environment, this book details the messy process that took place over more than thirty years. Presenting important implications for the future of water management in arid and semi-arid environments, this book will be of interest to anyone involved in water management, as well as academics interested in the social organization of common property.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Montana
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114276418

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A Confluence of Cultures by Anonim Pdf

A collaboration between the University of Montana and the Montana Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commission, this symposium was structured to explore the relationships that developed between the Native peoples and Euro-Americans both during the Lewis and Clark Expedition and in the 200 years following. The influences of Euro-American emigration and development of the region as it relates to Native American culture are discussed. The DVD provides highlights of the presentations grouped by the symposium's themes.

Author : Emilio F. Moran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429963742

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Human Adaptability by Emilio F. Moran Pdf

Designed to help students understand the multiple levels at which human populations respond to their surroundings, this essential text offers the most complete discussion of environmental, physiological, behavioral, and cultural adaptive strategies available. Among the unique features that make Human Adaptability outstanding as both a textbook for students and a reference book for professionals are a complete discussion of the development of ecological anthropology and relevant research methods; the use of an ecosystem approach with emphasis on arctic, high altitude, arid land, grassland, tropical rain forest, and urban environments; an extensive and updated bibliography on ecological anthropology; and a comprehensive glossary of technical terms. Entirely new to the third edition are chapters on urban sustainability and methods of spatial analysis, with enhanced emphasis throughout on the role of gender in human-adaptability research and on global environmental change as it affects particular ecosystems. In addition, new sections in each chapter guide students to websites that provide access to relevant material, complement the text's coverage of biomes, and suggest ways to become active in environmental issues.

Author : Emilio Moran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429962257

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Human Adaptability, Student Economy Edition by Emilio Moran Pdf

This book focuses on mechanisms of human adaptability. It integrates findings from ecology, physiology, social anthropology, and geography around a set of problems or constraints posed by human habitats.