Ecosystem Ecology
Rating: David G Raffaelli and Christopher LJ Frid.eds. 2010. Ecosystem Ecology: A New Synthesis. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978 0 521 73503 2. This slim text, part of the British Ecological Society’s Ecological Reviews, aims to bring a more system-wide view of ecology to bear on questions of sustainable management and conservation. As such it’s another avenue to explore alongside the burgeoning notions of conservation science which tend to be focussed more on the individual. Since this is a text […]
World Atlas of Mangroves
Rating: Mark Spalding, Mami Kainuma and Lorna Collins. 2010. World Atlas of Mangroves. Earthscan. ISBN. 978 1 84407 657 4. Mangroves, originally considered something of a nuisance in terms of easy coastal access have undergone considerable evaluation in the last 40 years. The culmination must be, currently, the value of mangroves in post-tsumani Aceh; where mangroves flourished, the damage was far lighter. However, there is far more to this ecosystem than just a loss-reducer; their importance in the marine system […]
Conservation Biogeography
Rating: Richard Ladle and Robert Whittaker.eds.2011. Conservation Biogeography. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978 1 4443 3504 0. In the last 40 years, conservation from gone from the idea of trying to protect species almost just by making sure they are there to a specific area of science (conservation biology) and now, conservation biogeography is adding a spatial dimension to the ecological one. This is one of the first texts to actually locate this new discipline within the corpus of conservation knowledge and […]
