Defending Biodiversity

Newman, Jonathan A.; Varner, Gary; Linquist, Stefan

ISBN 10: 0521146208 / ISBN 13: 9780521146203

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2009

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Inhaltsangabe:

This interdisciplinary and accessible book will help environmentalists to make stronger arguments in favor of conserving biodiversity.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Jonathan A. Newman is Dean of the College of Biological Science at the University of Guelph, Ontario, where he was also the founding Director of the School of Environmental Sciences, and the Chair of the Department of Environmental Biology. He has held previous faculty positions at the University of Oxford and at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He has been associated editor for the Journal of Ecology and for the Journal of Animal Ecology, and a member of the editorial boards of the journals Global Change Biology and Behavioral Ecology. He is the lead author for the 2011 book Climate Change Biology and has published more than 100 scientific journal articles on plant-animal-fungal interactions, invasive species, climate change, and the determinants and impacts of biodiversity. He is a member of the Ecological Society of America, the Canadian Society of Ecology and Evolution, and the British Ecological Society. He is a Fellow of the British Royal Society of Biology, and a monthly donor to Greenpeace Canada. He holds B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the State University of New York, Albany, and a postgraduate diploma in learning and teaching in higher education from the University of Oxford.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Defending Biodiversity
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Very Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket