Wetland Ecology
Rating: Paul A Keddy. 2010. Wetland Ecology: Principles and Conservation. 2e. Cambridge University Press. ISBN978 0 521 73967 2. Wetlands are rightly recognised as crucial, but often endangered, ecosystems. It follows that anything promoting them is welcomed. There’s also something about a second or subsequent addition that piques the interest. Clearly it was worth the publishing effort (suggesting a good book, in demand) but it also allows the author to update and gives the reader an insight into what has […]
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 […]
Ecological and Economic Foundations
Rating: The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity, ed Pushpam Kumar. 2010 Ecological and Economic foundations. UNEP/Earthscan. ISBN 978 1 84971 212 5 This is one text where context is crucial. The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) was set up by the UNEP in 2007. It was started became of the concern that current economics was either not valuing nor not valuing sufficiently, our ecosystem services and, by extension, the biodiversity that keeps it functioning. This perspective would be similar […]
Encyclopedia of Life
Encyclopedia of Life A large and very impressive site aiming to document species on Earth. Excellent source of data.
