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Ecological restoration
Record details
- ISBN: 9780878936076
- ISBN: 0878936076
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Physical Description:
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xvii, 630 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 25 cm. - Publisher: Sunderland, Mass. : Sinauer Associates, c2012.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 1. Introduction -- 2. Diagnosis and goal setting -- 3. Planning -- 4. Social and institutional support -- 5. Monitoring and evaluation -- 6. Landforms and hydrology -- 7. Soil and water quality -- 8. Plants -- 9. Invertebrates -- 10. Vertebrates. |
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| Subject: | Restoration ecology Nature -- Effect of human beings on |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Camosun College Library.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lansdowne Library | QH 541.15 R45 G34 2012 (Text) | 26040003022122 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Book News : Book News Reviews
Galatwitsch (U. of Minnesota) presents the first textbook devoted entirely to ecological dimensions of environmental restoration. Students come to the field from many different disciplines, so she begins with the basics. Her focus is practical, so she describes techniques that have been shown to work in the field, rather than theoretical ones no matter how cool, and uses real-world cases as examples. The chapters on the process of restoration and approaches to it include diagnosis and goal setting, social and institutional support, monitoring and evaluation, soil and water quality, and vertebrates. Among the cases are Alaska's North Slope, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, and South Africa's Namaqualand Restoration Initiative. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) - Choice Reviews : Choice Reviews 2012 October
This book is intended as a textbook for university students engaged in the study of ecological restoration. Galatowitsch (Univ. of Minnesota) aims to cover a broad range of ecological background, dividing some 600 pages into three main sections: "Restoration Process," "Restoration Approaches," and "Restoration Cases." A total of ten chapters within the first two sections are designed to briefly capture various topics; chapters include "Planning" (22 pages), "Monitoring and Evaluation" (34 pages), "Plants" (60 pages), and "Invertebrates" (40 pages). The goal of the third section is to offer more in-depth development of 19 restoration cases, which are often referred to in the previous sections. This intended breadth is also a major shortcoming. By trying to be too inclusive, the book lacks the necessary depth to actually capture the essence of topics that it touches upon. For example, the author devotes ten pages combined to the subsections "Site-Based Habitat Restoration," "Curbing Overexploitation," and "Manipulating Trophic Interactions" in a chapter on vertebrates. Each of these topics has been developed into book-length treatments elsewhere, and Ecological Restoration does not do them justice. The case studies equally suffer from brevity; presenting fewer studies would have avoided the superficiality. Summing Up: Not recommended. Not Recommended. B. Blossey Cornell University Copyright 2012 American Library Association.
