A hands-on guide to biodiversity inventory, this manual provides an overview of the data sources, analytical tools and methods, and field techniques involved in surveying lands for rare species and ecological communities of concern.
This report reveals gaps in Canada's understanding of its own biodiversity, which is essential to enabling conservation action and effective reporting.
Synthesizing the experiences of more than two dozen sites around the world, this booklet describes how marine managed areas (MMAs) increase the diversity and abundance of native organisms and ecosystem resilience for generations to come.
Recent surveys and historical data describe vegetation patterns in the coastal salt pond marsh system at Odiorne Point State Park in Rye, New Hampshire, the state's only viable example.
With amphibians in crisis worldwide, Threatened Amphibians of the World offers a visual journey through the first-ever comprehensive assessment of the conservation status of the world's 6,000 known species of frogs, toads, salamanders, and caecilians.
This book provides a thorough introduction to understanding biodiversity and how it applies to the military mission, including the scientific, legal, policy, and natural resources management contexts, and offers practical advice from 17 case studies, written by resource managers at military installations.
This analysis unearths the fact that only a modest number of state wildlife action plans explicitly incorporated plant species of conservation concern. Now is the time to put the conservation needs of our nation’s flora squarely into view.
More than 80 ecosystems in the Amazon Basin of Peru and Bolivia are classified and mapped in this report. The map is the first in Latin America to use the same criteria, scales and field validation to illustrate the natural vegetation across the two countries, and is expected to serve as a model to future vegetation maps in the region.
This collaborative map features ecological systems in 1.5 million square kilometeres across 130 Andean and lowland ecosystems of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. The rich environmental and climatic gradient of this region has produced an exceptionally diverse landscape of species and ecosystems, making its one of the most diversity-rich regions on the planet.