The Everglades Handbook: Understanding the Ecosystem - Couverture souple

Lodge, Thomas E.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1566706149 ISBN 13 : 9781566706148

Editeur : Lewis Publishers,U.S., 2004

Synopsis

The second edition of a bestseller, The Everglades Handbook: Understanding the Ecosystem continues to provide a wealth of information on the entire ecosystem of the Everglades. Offering the essentials of what the ecosystem is and how it works, the Handbook benefits those addressing issues such as Everglades restoration, water management, wildlife management, and water quality problems in urban and agricultural planning.

With an emphasis on natural history, the text is unified around themes of biogeography and ecosystem functions of the plant and animal communities. It presents current and historical geology, discussions of human impacts, ecosystem degradation, and planned restoration, and covers the socioeconomic aspects of the Everglades ecosystem.

What’s new in the Second Edition:

• Additional chapter on Big Cypress Swamp
• New section on Lake Okeechobee and its headwaters
• A new synthesis chapter which diagrams ecological succession and food webs

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Thomas E. Lodge, Ph.D., is a self-employed ecologist. He has led numerous environmental projects directly relating to the Everglades, including the development of methodology for evaluating the ecological function of historic Everglades wetlands. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Tropical Audubon Society and was an appointed member of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Multi-Species Ecosystem Restoration Team, which assists in Everglades restoration strategies dealing with listed species. He has also been an invited faculty, teaching South Florida ecology at Florida International University, where the first and second editions of The Everglades Handbook have been used regularly as a course text since 1994.

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Dr. Lodge has a B.A. with a major and departmental honors in zoology from Ohio Wesleyan University (1966) and a Ph.D. in biology from the University of Miami in Florida (1974). In graduate school, Dr. Lodge became fascinated with the Everglades, both academically and personally. In addition to publishing magazine articles on the Everglades, he wrote and directed an educational film (The Everglades Region, An Ecological Study, John Wiley and Sons, 1973), and published on the fishes of the region. After receiving his Ph.D., he became an environmental consultant, specializing in wetlands and aquatic ecosystems. From 1996 to 1998, he was director of the Kampong, a botanical garden and former home of Dr. David Fairchild.  His personal interest in the region has outweighed his professional activities. For over 35 years he has been a regular observer and photographer of Everglades wildlife.

With an emphasis on natural history, the text is unified around themes of biogeography and ecosystem functions of the plant and animal communities. It presents current and historical geology, discussions of human impacts, ecosystem degradation, and planned restoration, and covers the socioeconomic aspects of the Everglades ecosystem.

What’s new in the Second Edition:

• Additional chapter on Big Cypress Swamp
• New section on Lake Okeechobee and its headwaters
• A new synthesis chapter which diagrams ecological succession and food webs

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lewis Publishers,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1566706149
• ISBN 13: 9781566706148
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 344
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible