Download or read book Practical Field Ecology written by C. Philip Wheater and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-06-20 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces experimental design and data analysis / interpretation as well as field monitoring skills for both plants and animals. Clearly structured throughout and written in a student-friendly manner, the main emphasis of the book concentrates on the techniques required to design a field based ecological survey and shows how to execute an appropriate sampling regime. The book evaluates appropriate methods, including the problems associated with various techniques and their inherent flaws (e.g. low sample sizes, large amount of field or laboratory work, high cost etc). This provides a resource base outlining details from the planning stage, into the field, guiding through sampling and finally through organism identification in the laboratory and computer based data analysis and interpretation. The text is divided into six distinct chapters. The first chapter covers planning, including health and safety together with information on a variety of statistical techniques for examining and analysing data. Following a chapter dealing with site characterisation and general aspects of species identification, subsequent chapters describe the techniques used to survey and census particular groups of organisms. The final chapter covers interpreting and presenting data and writing up the research. The emphasis here is on appropriate wording of interpretation and structure and content of the report.
Download or read book An Introduction to Plant Ecology written by A.G. Tansley and published by Discovery Publishing House. This book was released on 1993 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book promises to give a new stimulus to the teaching of elementary botany, for it breaks away from the traditional method and approaches the subject from a new angle. The treatment throughout in this book is eminently clear and the suggestion for&practical work&excellent. Contents: Part I: Introductory, Part II: Structure, Distribution and Development of Vegetation, Part III: Methods of studying Vegetation, Part IV: The Habitat, Part V: Ecological Work in Schools.
Download or read book Practical Plant Ecology written by Sir Arthur George Tansley and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Practical Plant Ecology written by Arthur George Tansley and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Practical Manual of Plant Ecology and Plant Physiology written by S. Sundara Rajan and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: part 1: study of vegetation, study of soil, study of atmosphere, ecological groups part 2: plant cell, solutions, suspensions and colloids, movement of substances, water relations, photosynthesis, respiration, enzymes, nitrogen metabolism, growth and harmones, plants movements, germination, carbohydrates.
Download or read book Practical Plant Ecology written by Sir Arthur George Tansley and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Plant Ecology written by Ernst-Detlef Schulze and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-02-18 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook covers Plant Ecology from the molecular to the global level. It covers the following areas in unprecedented breadth and depth: - Molecular ecophysiology (stress physiology: light, temperature, oxygen deficiency, drought, salt, heavy metals, xenobiotica and biotic stress factors) - Autecology (whole plant ecology: thermal balance, water, nutrient, carbon relations) - Ecosystem ecology (plants as part of ecosystems, element cycles, biodiversity) - Synecology (development of vegetation in time and space, interactions between vegetation and the abiotic and biotic environment) - Global aspects of plant ecology (global change, global biogeochemical cycles, land use, international conventions, socio-economic interactions) The book is carefully structured and well written: complex issues are elegantly presented and easily understandable. It contains more than 500 photographs and drawings, mostly in colour, illustrating the fascinating subject. The book is primarily aimed at graduate students of biology but will also be of interest to post-graduate students and researchers in botany, geosciences and landscape ecology. Further, it provides a sound basis for those dealing with agriculture, forestry, land use, and landscape management.
Download or read book Practical Plant Ecology A Guide for Beginners in Field Study of Plant Communities by A G Tansley written by Sir Arthur George Tansley and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Spatial Pattern Analysis in Plant Ecology written by Mark R. T. Dale and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-08-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A review and evaluation of the analysis methods for studying spatial pattern in vegetation.
Download or read book Plant Ecology in the Middle East written by Ahmad K. Hegazy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This advanced textbook is about Middle Eastern plants and plant ecology, presented within the wider context of the changing landscape, global climate change, and human history (particularly in relation to agriculture, conflict, and religion).
Download or read book Principles of Ecology in Plant Production written by Thomas R. Sinclair and published by CABI. This book was released on 2010 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rev. ed. of: Principles of ecology in plant production / edited by T.R. Sinclair and F.P. Gardner.
Download or read book Introduction to Plant Ecology A Guide for Beginners in the Study of Plant Communities Entirely Revised and Enlarged Second Edition of Practical Plant Ecology written by Sir Arthur George Tansley and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vegetation Description and Data Analysis written by Martin Kent and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-11-14 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vegetation Description and Data Analysis: A PracticalApproach, Second Edition is a fully revised and up-datededition of this key text. The book takes account of recent advancesin the field whilst retaining the original reader-friendly approachto the coverage of vegetation description and multivariate analysisin the context of vegetation data and plant ecology. Since the publication of the hugely popular first edition therehave been significant developments in computer hardware andsoftware, new key journals have been established in the field andscope and application of vegetation description and analysis hasbecome a truly global field. This new edition includes fullcoverage of new developments and technologies. This contemporary and comprehensive edition of this well-known andrespected textbook will prove invaluable to undergraduate andgraduate students in biological sciences, environmental science,geography, botany, agriculture, forestry and biologicalconservation. * Fully international approach * Includes illustrative case studies throughout * Now with new material on: the nature of plant communities;transitional areas between plant communities; induction anddeduction of plant ecology; diversity indices and dominancediversity curves; multivariate analysis in ecology. * Accessible, reader-friendly style * Now with new and improved illustrations
Download or read book Plant Ecology written by Paul A. Keddy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a global and interdisciplinary approach to plant ecology, guiding students through essential concepts with real-world examples.
Download or read book Methods in Comparative Plant Population Ecology written by David J. Gibson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A user-friendly introduction to the methodology of plant population ecology research.
Download or read book The Ecology and Management of Prairies in the Central United States written by Chris Helzer and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most prairies exist today as fragmented landscapes, making thoughtful and vigilant management ever more important. Intended for landowners and managers dedicated to understanding and nurturing their prairies as well as farmers, ranchers, conservationists, and all those with a strong interest in grasslands, ecologist Chris Helzer’s readable and practical manual educates prairie owners and managers about grassland ecology and gives them guidelines for keeping prairies diverse, vigorous, and viable. Chapters in the first section, "Prairie Ecology," describe prairie plants and the communities they live in, the ways in which disturbance modifies plant communities, the animal and plant inhabitants that are key to prairie survival, and the importance of diversity within plant and animal communities. Chapters in the second section, "Prairie Management," explore the adaptive management process as well as guiding principles for designing management strategies, examples of successful management systems such as fire and grazing, guidance for dealing with birds and other species that have particular habitat requirements and with the invasive species that have become the most serious threat that prairie managers have to deal with, and general techniques for prairie restoration. Following the conclusion and a forward-thinking note on climate change, eight appendixes provide more information on grazing, prescribed fire, and invasive species as well as bibliographic notes, references, and national and state organizations with expertise in prairie management. Grasslands can be found throughout much of North America, and the ideas and strategies in this book apply to most of them, particularly tallgrass and mixed-grass prairies in eastern North Dakota, eastern South Dakota, eastern Nebraska, eastern Kansas, eastern Oklahoma, northwestern Missouri, northern Illinois, northwestern Indiana, Iowa, southwestern Wisconsin, and southwestern Minnesota. By presenting all the factors that promote biological diversity and thus enhance prairie communities, then incorporating these factors into a set of clear-sighted management practices, The Ecology and Management of Prairies in the Central United States presents the tools necessary to ensure that grasslands are managed in the purposeful ways essential to the continued health and survival of prairie communities.
