The Ecological Basis of Conservation: Heterogeneity, Ecosystems, and Biodiversity

by Moshe Shachak, Gene E. Likens, Richard S. Ostfeld, et al.

Book Overview

From its inception, the U.S. Department of the Interior has been charged with a conflicting mission. One set of statutes demands that the department must develop America's lands, that it get our trees, water, oil, and minerals out into the marketplace. Yet an opposing set of laws orders us to conserve these same resources, to preserve them for the long term and to consider the noncommodity values of our public landscape. That dichotomy, between rapid...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0412098512
• ISBN13: 9780412098512
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 466 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher