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Trees, Truffles, and Beasts : How Forests Function
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ISBN: 1281397210 9786611397210 0813544653 9780813544656 9780813542256 0813542251 9780813542263 081354226X 9781281397218 6611397213 Year: 2008 Publisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press,

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In today's world of specialization, people are attempting to protect the Earth's fragile state by swapping limousines for hybrids and pesticide-laced foods for organic produce. At other times, environmental awareness is translated into public relations gimmicks or trendy commodities. Moreover, simplistic policies, like single-species protection or planting ten trees for every tree cut down, are touted as bureaucratic or industrial panaceas. Because today's decisions are tomorrow's consequences, every small effort makes a difference, but a broader understanding of our environmental problems is necessary to the development of sustainable ecosystem policies. In Trees, Truffles, and Beasts, Chris Maser, Andrew W. Claridge, and James M. Trappe make a compelling case that we must first understand the complexity and interdependency of species and habitats from the microscopic level to the gigantic. Comparing forests in the Pacific Northwestern United States and Southeastern mainland of Australia, the authors show how easily observable speciesùtrees and mammalsùare part of a complicated infrastructure that includes fungi, lichens, and organisms invisible to the naked eye, such as microbes. Eminently readable, this important book shows that forests are far more complicated than most of us might think, which means simplistic policies will not save them. Understanding the biophysical intricacies of our life-support systems just might.


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Bettongs, potoroos and the musky rat-kangaroo
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ISBN: 1283154927 9786613154927 064309508X 9780643095083 9780643093416 0643093419 064309864X Year: 2007 Publisher: Melbourne : CSIRO Pub.,

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Provides an extraordinary glimpse into the secretive lives of these unusual marsupials.


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Camera trapping
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ISBN: 1486300405 9781486300402 9781486300419 1486300413 1486300391 9781486300396 Year: 2014 Publisher: Collingwood, VIC

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Camera trapping in wildlife management and research is a growing global phenomenon. The technology is advancing very quickly, providing unique opportunities for collecting new biological knowledge. In order for fellow camera trap researchers and managers to share their knowledge and experience, the First International Camera Trapping Colloquium in Wildlife Management and Research was held in Sydney, Australia.Camera Trapping brings together papers from a selection of the presentations at the colloquium and provides a benchmark of the international developments and uses of camera traps for moni

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