Observation and Ecology: Broadening the Scope of Science to Understand a Complex World

by Rafe Sagarin and Anibal Pauchard

Book Overview

The need to understand and address large-scale environmental problems that are difficult to study in controlled environments--issues ranging from climate change to overfishing to invasive species--is driving the field of ecology in new and important directions. Observation and Ecology documents that transformation, exploring how scientists and researchers are expanding their methodological toolbox to incorporate an array of new and reexamined...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1597268259
• ISBN13: 9781597268257
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Island Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"