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Bayesian data analysis in ecology using linear models with R, Bugs, and Stan
Bayesian Data Analysis in Ecology Using Linear Models with R, BUGS, and STAN examines the Bayesian and frequentist methods of conducting data analyses. The book provides the theoretical background in an easy-to-understand approach, encouraging readers to examine the processes that generated their data. Including discussions of model selection, model checking, and multi-model inference, the book also uses effect plots that allow a natural interpretation of data. Bayesian Data Analysis in Ecology Using Linear Models with R, BUGS, and STAN introduces Bayesian software, using R for the simple modes, and flexible Bayesian software (BUGS and Stan) for the more complicated ones. Guiding the ready from easy toward more complex (real) data analyses ina step-by-step manner, the book presents problems and solutions-including all R codes-that are most often applicable to other data and questions, making it an invaluable resource for analyzing a variety of data types.
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The biology and ecology of giant kelp forests
The largest seaweed, giant kelp (Macrocystis) is the fastest growing and most prolific of all plants found on earth. Growing from the seafloor and extending along the ocean surface in lush canopies, giant kelp provides an extensive vertical habitat in a largely two-dimensional seascape. It is the foundation for one of the most species-rich, productive, and widely distributed ecological communities in the world.Schiel and Foster's scholarly review and synthesis take the reader from Darwin's early observations to contemporary research, providing a historical perspective for the modern understanding of giant kelp evolution, biogeography, biology, and physiology.The authors furnish a comprehensive discussion of kelp species and forest ecology worldwide, with considerations of human uses and abuses, management and conservation, and the current and likely future impacts of global change.This volume promises to be the definitive treatise and reference on giant kelp and its forests for many years, and it will appeal to marine scientists and others who want a better appreciation and understanding of these wondrous forests of the sea.
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Conservation
\"The importance of conservation is growing each year, with increasing concerns over the destruction of biodiversity and the rising awareness of ecosystem services generating new debates on the human-nature relationship. This compact overview integrates the process, theory and practice of conservation for a broad readership, from students to practitioners. Taking a global perspective, it uses examples from around the world to show how general themes, patterns and drivers acting at different scales come together to cause problems at the local level\"-- Provided by publisher.
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North American Freshwater Mussels
This well-illustrated book highlights freshwater mussels' fabulous diversity, amazing array of often bizarre ecological adaptations and their dire conservation plight. Summarizing and synthesizing historical and contemporary information as well as original research and analysis, the book describes the diverse array of mussel life history strategies and builds a cohesive narrative culminating in the development of explicit frameworks to explain pervasive patterns in mussel ecology. The fascinating and colorful role of mussels in human society is also described in detail, including the little-known pearl button industry of the early 1900s and the wild and often violent shell harvest of the 1990s. The final chapter details humans' efforts to save these fascinating animals and gives a prognosis for the future of the North American fauna. The book provides the first comprehensive review of mussel ecology and conservation for scientists, natural resource professionals, students and natural history enthusiasts.
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Ecosystems of California
This long-anticipated reference and sourcebook for California's remarkable ecological abundance provides an integrated assessment of each major ecosystem type-its distribution, structure, function, and management. A comprehensive synthesis of our knowledge about this biologically diverse state,Ecosystems of Californiacovers the state from oceans to mountaintops using multiple lenses: past and present, flora and fauna, aquatic and terrestrial, natural and managed.Each chapter evaluates natural processes for a specific ecosystem, describes drivers of change, and discusses how that ecosystem may be altered in the future. This book also explores the drivers of California's ecological patterns and the history of the state's various ecosystems, outlining how the challenges of climate change and invasive species and opportunities for regulation and stewardship could potentially affect the state's ecosystems. The text explicitly incorporates both human impacts and conservation and restoration efforts and shows how ecosystems support human well-being. Edited by two esteemed ecosystem ecologists and with overviews by leading experts on each ecosystem, this definitive work will be indispensable for natural resource management and conservation professionals as well as for undergraduate or graduate students of California's environment and curious naturalists.
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The encyclopedia of animals
Learn about the lifestyles, statistics, descriptions, habitats, and behaviors of the animal kingdom. Each page of this comprehensive guide is filled with detailed artworks and full-color photographs.
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Ecologizing Education
Ecologizing Education explores
how we can reenvision education to meet the demands of an unjust
and rapidly changing world. Going beyond \"green\" schooling
programs that aim only to shape behavior, Sean Blenkinsop and
Estella Kuchta advance a pedagogical approach that seeks to
instills eco-conscious and socially just change at the cultural
level. Ecologizing education, as this approach is called, involves
identifying and working to overcome anti-ecological features of
contemporary education. This approach, called ecologizing
education, aims to develop a classroom culture in sync with the
more-than-human world where diversity and interdependency are
intrinsic.
Blenkinsop and Kuchta illustrate this educational paradigm shift
through the real-world stories of two public elementary schools
located in British Columbia. They show that this approach to
learning starts with recognizing the environmental and social
injustices that pervade our industrialized societies. By
documenting how ecologizing education helps children create new
relationships with the natural world and move toward mutual
healing, Blenkinsop and Kuchta offer a roadmap for what may be the
most potent chance we have at meaningful change in the face of
myriad climate crises.
Timely, practical, and ultimately inspirational, Ecologizing
Education is vital reading for any parent, caregiver,
environmentalist, or educator looking for wholistic education that
places nature and the environment front and center.
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