F. Stuart Chapin, III is an ecosystem ecologist whose research addresses the sustainability of ecosystems and human communities in a rapidly changing planet. This work emphasizes the impacts of climate change on Alaskan ecology, subsistence resources, and indigenous communities, as a basis for developing climate-change adaptation plans. Pamela Matson is dean of the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford University, USA. She previously worked at NASA and at the University of California Berkeley. Her professional titles at Stanford are Chester Naramore Dean of the School of Earth Sciences, and Richard and Rhoda Goldman Professor of Environmental Studies. Peter Vitousek is at the forefront of research on biological diversity, his research focus is Hawaii. His Stanford Lab is studying nutrient cycling in forest ecosystems as well as the effects of invasions by exotic species.
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F. Stuart Chapin III & Pamela A. Matson: Principles of Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology
Features review questions at the end of each chapter; Includes suggestions for recommended reading; Provides a glossary of ecological terms; Has a wide audience as a textbook for advanced undergradua …
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€51.16
Ricardo Rozzi & F. Stuart Chapin III: Earth Stewardship
This book advances Earth Stewardship toward a planetary scale, presenting a range of ecological worldviews, practices, and institutions in different parts of the world and to use them as the basis fo …
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€149.79
Ricardo Rozzi & Roy H. May Jr.: From Biocultural Homogenization to Biocultural Conservation
To assess the social processes of globalization that are changing the way in which we co-inhabit the world today, this book invites the reader to essay the diversity of worldviews, with the diversity …
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Ellen W. Chu & F. Stuart Chapin III: Arctic Ecosystems in a Changing Climate
The arctic region is predicted to experience the earliest and most pronounced global warming response to human-induced climatic change. This book synthesizes information on the physiological ecology …
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€56.70
Shauna BurnSilver & Gail Fondahl: Arctic Sustainability Research
The Arctic is one of the world’s regions most affected by cultural, socio-economic, environmental, and climatic changes. Over the last two decades, scholars, policymakers, extractive industries, gove …
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€54.04
Shauna BurnSilver & Gail Fondahl: Arctic Sustainability Research
The Arctic is one of the world’s regions most affected by cultural, socio-economic, environmental, and climatic changes. Over the last two decades, scholars, policymakers, extractive industries, gove …
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€54.12
F. Stuart Chapin III & Hans Lambers: Plant Physiological Ecology
The individual is engaged in a struggle for existence (Darwin). That struggle may be of two kinds:The acquisition of the resources needed for establishment and growth from a sometimes hostile and mea …
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€92.54
F Stuart Chapin III & Pamela A. Matson: Principles of Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology
Human activities are affecting the global environment in myriad ways, with numerous direct and indirect effects on ecosystems. The climate and atmospheric composition of Earth are changing rapidly. H …
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€92.81
Carl Folke & F Stuart Chapin III: Principles of Ecosystem Stewardship
The world is undergoing unprecedented changes in many of the factors that determine its fundamental properties and their in- ence on society. These changes include climate; the chemical c- position o …
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€64.49
F Stuart Chapin III & Hans Lambers: Plant Physiological Ecology
Box 9E. 1 Continued FIGURE 2. The C-S-R triangle model (Grime 1979). The strategies at the three corners are C, competiti- winning species; S, stress-tolerating s- cies; R, ruderalspecies. Particular …
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€102.83
F Stuart Chapin III: Grassroots Stewardship
In a society more concerned with how to cope with existential dread than how to make actionable changes to save the planet, a surprisingly large number of Americans identify as environmentalists. Wha …
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€31.54
F Stuart Chapin III: Grassroots Stewardship
In a society more concerned with how to cope with existential dread than how to make actionable changes to save the planet, a surprisingly large number of Americans identify as environmentalists. Wha …
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€31.63