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Book Baylands Ecosystem Species and Community Profiles

Download or read book Baylands Ecosystem Species and Community Profiles written by San Francisco Bay Area Wetlands Ecosystem Goals Project and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bair Island Ecological Refuge  Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge  N W R    Bair Island Restoration and Management Plan

Download or read book Bair Island Ecological Refuge Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge N W R Bair Island Restoration and Management Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book San Francisco Estuary  Invasive Spartina Project  Spartina Control Program

Download or read book San Francisco Estuary Invasive Spartina Project Spartina Control Program written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Down by the Bay

    Book Details:
  • Author : Matthew Booker
  • Publisher : University of California Press
  • Release : 2020-06-09
  • ISBN : 0520355563
  • Pages : 294 pages

Download or read book Down by the Bay written by Matthew Booker and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Francisco Bay is the largest and most productive estuary on the Pacific Coast of North America. It is also home to the oldest and densest urban settlements in the American West. Focusing on human inhabitation of the Bay since Ohlone times, Down by the Bay reveals the ongoing role of nature in shaping that history. From birds to oyster pirates, from gold miners to farmers, from salt ponds to ports, this is the first history of the San Francisco Bay and Delta as both a human and natural landscape. It offers invaluable context for current discussions over the best management and use of the Bay in the face of sea level rise.

Book Ecology  Conservation  and Restoration of Tidal Marshes

Download or read book Ecology Conservation and Restoration of Tidal Marshes written by Arnas Palaima and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The San Francisco Bay, the biggest estuary on the west coast of North America, was once surrounded by an almost unbroken chain of tidal wetlands, a fecund sieve of ecosystems connecting the land and the Bay. Today, most of these wetlands have disappeared under the demands of coastal development, and those that remain cling precariously to a drastically altered coastline. This volume is a collaborative effort of nearly 40 scholars in which the wealth of scientific knowledge available on tidal wetlands of the San Francisco Estuary is summarized and integrated. This book addresses issues of taxonomy, geomorphology, toxicology, the impact of climate change, ecosystem services, public policy, and conservation, and it is an essential resource for ecologists, environmental scientists, coastal policymakers, and researchers interested in estuaries and conserving and restoring coastal wetlands around the world.

Book Making and Unmaking of the San Francisco Bay

Download or read book Making and Unmaking of the San Francisco Bay written by Gary C. Howard and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-04-23 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Francisco Bay is a shallow estuary surrounded by a large population center. The forces that built it began with plate tectonics and involved the collision of the Pacific and North American plates and the subduction of the Juan de Fuka plate. Changes in the climate resulting from the last ice age yielded lower and then higher sea levels. Human activity influenced the Bay. Gold mining during the California gold rush sent masses of slit into the Bay. Humans have also built several major cities and filled significant parts of the Bay. This book describes the natural history and evolution of the SF Bay Area over the last 50 million years through the present and into the future. Key selling features: Summarizes a complex geological, geographical and ecological history Reviews how the San Francisco Bay has changed and will likely change in the future Examines the different roles and various drivers of Bay ecosystem function Includes the role of humans - both first peoples and modern populations - on the Bay Explores San Francisco Bay as an example of general bay ecolgical and environmental issues

Book Ecosystem Restoration Program Plan  Ecological attributes of the San Francisco Bay Delta Watershed

Download or read book Ecosystem Restoration Program Plan Ecological attributes of the San Francisco Bay Delta Watershed written by CALFED Bay-Delta Program and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Historical Ecology Handbook

Download or read book The Historical Ecology Handbook written by Dave Egan and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2005-08-12 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fundamental aspect of the work of ecosystem restoration is to rediscover the past and bring it into the present-to determine what needs to be restored, why it was lost, and how best to make it live again. This handbook makes essential connections between past and future ecosystems, bringing together leading experts to offer a much-needed introduction to the field of historical ecology and its practical application by on-the-ground restorationists. - from publisher description.

Book The Marsh Builders

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sharon Levy
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2018-05-17
  • ISBN : 0190246421
  • Pages : 249 pages

Download or read book The Marsh Builders written by Sharon Levy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swamps and marshes once covered vast stretches of the North American landscape. The destruction of these habitats, long seen as wastelands that harbored deadly disease, accelerated in the twentieth century. Today, the majority of the original wetlands in the US have vanished, transformed into farm fields or buried under city streets. In The Marsh Builders, Sharon Levy delves into the intertwined histories of wetlands loss and water pollution. The book's springboard is the tale of a years-long citizen uprising in Humboldt County, California, which led to the creation of one of the first U.S. wetlands designed to treat city sewage. The book explores the global roots of this local story: the cholera epidemics that plagued nineteenth-century Europe; the researchers who invented modern sewage treatment after bumbling across the insight that microbes break down pollutants in water; the discovery that wetlands act as efficient filters for the pollutants unleashed by modern humanity. More than forty years after the passage of the Clean Water Act launched a nation-wide effort to rescue lakes, rivers and estuaries fouled with human and industrial waste, the need for revived wetlands is more urgent than ever. Waters from Lake Erie and Chesapeake Bay to China's Lake Taihu are tainted with an overload of nutrients carried in runoff from farms and cities, creating underwater dead zones and triggering algal blooms that release toxins into drinking water sources used by millions of people. As the planet warms, scientists are beginning to design wetlands that can shield coastal cities from rising seas. Revived wetlands hold great promise for healing the world's waters.

Book Human Impacts on Salt Marshes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brian R. Silliman
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2009-06-03
  • ISBN : 9780520258921
  • Pages : 440 pages

Download or read book Human Impacts on Salt Marshes written by Brian R. Silliman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-06-03 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Human Impacts on Salt Marshes provides an excellent global synthesis of an important, underappreciated environmental problem and suggests solutions to the diverse threats affecting salt marshes."—Peter B. Moyle, University of California, Davis

Book Marine Historical Ecology in Conservation

Download or read book Marine Historical Ecology in Conservation written by John N. Kittinger and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-03-25 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering volume provides a blueprint for managing the challenges of ocean conservation using marine historical ecology—an interdisciplinary area of study that is helping society to gain a more in-depth understanding of past human-environmental interactions in coastal and marine ecosystems and of the ecological and social outcomes associated with these interactions. Developed by groundbreaking practitioners in the field, Marine Historical Ecology in Conservation highlights the innovative ways that historical ecology can be applied to improve conservation and management efforts in the oceans. The book focuses on four key challenges that confront marine conservation: (1) recovering endangered species, (2) conserving fisheries, (3) restoring ecosystems, and (4) engaging the public. Chapters emphasize real-world conservation scenarios appropriate for students, faculty, researchers, and practitioners in marine science, conservation biology, natural resource management, paleoecology, and marine and coastal archaeology. By focusing on success stories and applied solutions, this volume delivers the required up-to-date science and tools needed for restoration and protection of ocean and coastal ecosystems.

Book CALFED Bay Delta Program Programmatic EIS  Long Term Comprehensive Plan to Restore Ecosystem Health and Improve Water Management  San Francisco Bay   Sacramento San Joaquin River Bay Delta D Dsum  Program Goals and Objectives  Dapp1  No Action Alternative

Download or read book CALFED Bay Delta Program Programmatic EIS Long Term Comprehensive Plan to Restore Ecosystem Health and Improve Water Management San Francisco Bay Sacramento San Joaquin River Bay Delta D Dsum Program Goals and Objectives Dapp1 No Action Alternative written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bird Conservation Implementation and Integration in the Americas

Download or read book Bird Conservation Implementation and Integration in the Americas written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: