Author: REED F. NOSS
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813080772
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A biodiversity hotspot, Florida is home to many ecosystems and species that depend on frequent fire to exist. In this book, Reed Noss discusses the essential role of fire in generating biodiversity and offers best practices for using fire to keep the region's ecosystems healthy and resilient.
Fire Ecology of Florida and the Southeastern Coastal Plain
Author: REED F. NOSS
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813080772
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A biodiversity hotspot, Florida is home to many ecosystems and species that depend on frequent fire to exist. In this book, Reed Noss discusses the essential role of fire in generating biodiversity and offers best practices for using fire to keep the region's ecosystems healthy and resilient.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813080772
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A biodiversity hotspot, Florida is home to many ecosystems and species that depend on frequent fire to exist. In this book, Reed Noss discusses the essential role of fire in generating biodiversity and offers best practices for using fire to keep the region's ecosystems healthy and resilient.
Coming to Pass
Author: Susan Cerulean
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820347655
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
"Ten years ago, Sue Cerulean realized the coastlines of her childhood along the New Jersey shore and of her adult years (a little-developed necklace of Gulf islands in Florida) were beginning to shift into the sea. She began to chronicle the story of "her" coastal areas as they are now, as they once were, and how they might be as Earth's oceans rise. Cerulean and her husband, oceanographer Jeff Chanton, have taken many field trips in various parts of these coastal areas"--
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820347655
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
"Ten years ago, Sue Cerulean realized the coastlines of her childhood along the New Jersey shore and of her adult years (a little-developed necklace of Gulf islands in Florida) were beginning to shift into the sea. She began to chronicle the story of "her" coastal areas as they are now, as they once were, and how they might be as Earth's oceans rise. Cerulean and her husband, oceanographer Jeff Chanton, have taken many field trips in various parts of these coastal areas"--
Common Coastal Birds of Florida and the Caribbean
Author: David W. Nellis
Publisher: Pineapple Press Inc
ISBN: 9781561641918
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Helps to identify the birds seen along the coast and presents their characteristics, ecological niche, the high degree of specialization they have developed, and their demanding habitat .
Publisher: Pineapple Press Inc
ISBN: 9781561641918
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Helps to identify the birds seen along the coast and presents their characteristics, ecological niche, the high degree of specialization they have developed, and their demanding habitat .
The Florida Coastal Management Program
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coastal zone management
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coastal zone management
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Florida Coastal Management Program
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Living with Florida's Atlantic Beaches
Author: David M. Bush
Publisher: Living with the Shore
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
A call to live with the coast, as opposed to living at the coast; unless Florida coastal communities conserve beaches and mitigate storm impacts, the future of the beach-based economy is in question.
Publisher: Living with the Shore
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
A call to live with the coast, as opposed to living at the coast; unless Florida coastal communities conserve beaches and mitigate storm impacts, the future of the beach-based economy is in question.
Florida's (Most Devastating!) Disasters and (Most Calamitous!) Catastrophies!
Author: Carole Marsh
Publisher: Carole Marsh Books
ISBN: 079330282X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Publisher: Carole Marsh Books
ISBN: 079330282X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Florida's Unsolved Mysteries (& Their "Solutions")
Author: Carole Marsh
Publisher: Carole Marsh Books
ISBN: 0793357500
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Publisher: Carole Marsh Books
ISBN: 0793357500
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Estuarine Ecology
Author: John W. Day, Jr.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0471755672
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Estuaries are among the most biologically productive ecosystems on the planet--critical to the life cycles of fish, other aquatic animals, and the creatures which feed on them. Estuarine Ecology, Second Edition, covers the physical and chemical aspects of estuaries, the biology and ecology of key organisms, the flow of organic matter through estuaries, and human interactions, such as the environmental impact of fisheries on estuaries and the effects of global climate change on these important ecosystems. Authored by a team of world experts from the estuarine science community, this long-awaited, full-color edition includes new chapters covering phytoplankton, seagrasses, coastal marshes, mangroves, benthic algae, Integrated Coastal Zone Management techniques, and the effects of global climate change. It also features an entriely new section on estuarine ecosystem processes, trophic webs, ecosystem metabolism, and the interactions between estuaries and other ecosystems such as wetlands and marshes
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0471755672
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Estuaries are among the most biologically productive ecosystems on the planet--critical to the life cycles of fish, other aquatic animals, and the creatures which feed on them. Estuarine Ecology, Second Edition, covers the physical and chemical aspects of estuaries, the biology and ecology of key organisms, the flow of organic matter through estuaries, and human interactions, such as the environmental impact of fisheries on estuaries and the effects of global climate change on these important ecosystems. Authored by a team of world experts from the estuarine science community, this long-awaited, full-color edition includes new chapters covering phytoplankton, seagrasses, coastal marshes, mangroves, benthic algae, Integrated Coastal Zone Management techniques, and the effects of global climate change. It also features an entriely new section on estuarine ecosystem processes, trophic webs, ecosystem metabolism, and the interactions between estuaries and other ecosystems such as wetlands and marshes
Florida Assessment of Coastal Trends (1997)
Author: Gilbert T. Bergquist
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9780788176562
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The first scheduled update and revision of the original environmental indicator system produced in 1995. It provides a comprehensive perspective of the important environmental, growth management, economic, and social values associated with the coast. It provides a means of evaluating Florida's progress in protecting its coastal areas; a basis for making strategic decisions about programs and financial resources; and information about coastal issues and problems to other decision-makers and the general public. Includes: updating the data in the indicators; deleting indicators with poor or nonexistent data sources; and adding new indicators.
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9780788176562
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The first scheduled update and revision of the original environmental indicator system produced in 1995. It provides a comprehensive perspective of the important environmental, growth management, economic, and social values associated with the coast. It provides a means of evaluating Florida's progress in protecting its coastal areas; a basis for making strategic decisions about programs and financial resources; and information about coastal issues and problems to other decision-makers and the general public. Includes: updating the data in the indicators; deleting indicators with poor or nonexistent data sources; and adding new indicators.