Various authors, Thomas A. Jones, Kiarrah J. Smith, Iain J. Gordon, Belinda A. Wilson, Adrian D. Manning, Christopher R. Dickman, Aaron C. Greenville, Glenda M. Wardle
This book provides a comprehensive overview of rewilding in agriculture, focussing on the diversity of best practices used to rewild grasslands and rangelands, as well as the benefits and trade-offs related to animal rewilding....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Nebraska Press, ISBN-13: 9781496246813)
For more than forty years the prairies of South Dakota have been Dan OBriens home. Working as a writer and an endangered species biologist, he became convinced that returning free-roaming buffalo to the grasslands would return natural balance to t...Loe edasi...
This comprehensive handbook represents a definitive state of the art overview of grasslands from multiple, interdisciplinary and global perspectives. Despite the real and intrinsic values that grasslands offer, they are globally subject to fragmenta...Loe edasi...
Degradation of Alpine Grasslands on Tibetan Plateau: Assessment, Causes, Consequences, and Restoration summarizes the approaches for assessing the degradation of alpine grasslands, highlighting its effects on vegetation, soil characteristics,...Loe edasi...
Agnes van den Pol-van Dasselaar, Laurence Shalloo, Nick van Eekeren, Martin Lukac, Friedhelm Taube, Lynn Sollenberger, Marta M. Kohmann, Roger Trumpp, Jose C. B. Dubeux, Michael O'Donovan...
Sari: Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
This book reviews the wealth of research addressing the key role grasslands play in animal health, product quality and the sustainability of agriculture as a whole. It discusses ways of optimising grassland composition and management, including re...Loe edasi...
In Wild on Purpose, Sean Gerrity asks us to radically reimagine the future of conservation—and the role each of us can play in making a wilder, more sustainable world. In 2001, a small team of ordinary citizens left their sec...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226838793)
The grasslands of the trans-Mississippi west-North Americas most endangered ecosystems-are at a critical moment in their history. The science of prairie restoration is on the verge of unlocking the secrets to rewilding the last fragments of native...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-May-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Random House Inc, ISBN-13: 9780593447406)
The North American prairie is an ecological marvel. One cubic yard of prairie sod contains so many organisms that it rivals the tropical rainforest for biological diversity. And like the rainforest, it showcases natures prodigious talent for symbio...Loe edasi...
Sari: Distributed for the Illinois Natural History Survey
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Jan-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252088469)
A common group of plants in the Midwest’s natural areas, the oval sedges supply food for wildlife while their roots bind the soil and their vegetation creates habitat. Carex of Illinois and Surrounding States: The Oval Sedges offers a guide to...Loe edasi...
Grassland Degradation, Restoration and Sustainable Management of Global Alpine Area involves the stripping and regeneration of the grassland’s mattic epipedon. The stripping of the mattic epipedon is a unique phenomenon on the global alpine ar...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Nov-2024, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University Press of Kansas, ISBN-13: 9780700637027)
The wild plants in this book tell stories of land, people, and food. As renowned botanist Kelly Kindscher guides us through over one hundred edible plants in this beautiful field guide, we find that foraging has always been an important part of pr...Loe edasi...
