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Life counts : cataloguing life on earth / by Gleich, Michael.(CARDINAL)328201; United Nations Environment Programme.(CARDINAL)149220;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-279).Statisticians on safari: our methods for counting the world -- Fossils: nature's methods for counting the world -- The great chroniclers: changing reasons for studying nature -- Human censuses: changing reasons for studying human populations -- Expedition to planet Earth: the world we have yet to discover -- Extinctions: losing species before their roles are understood -- Threatened and threatening: our love-hate relationship with nature and its conservation -- Progress through catastrophes: how extinctions further evolution -- Sustainable use: a new method for protecting species -- Wild economics: calculating nature's worth -- Fair dealing: who gets nature's dividends -- Preserving diversity: the next fifty years -- Maxing out: how many people can the earth support? -- The future of life -- Humans and nature in numbers.Six billion people live on earth, but we share the planet with trillions of other life-forms, ranging from bacteria to whales. They make up life's infrastructure and are in effect the underpinnings of human existence. Life counts shows why we must preserve this biodiversity: if we don't, scientists predict, the earth may lose the ability to support its inhabitants within the next fifty years. Through color illustrations and narration, readers learn that each animal on earth--whose numbers are greater than our galaxy's stars--as well as each plant and each microbe, plays a role essential to the life of the planet and, in surprising ways, human economies and health. The authors weigh scientist's and international governments' best ideas on how we can protect these living things and hence our world. Life counts: a worldwide balance sheet is part of the larger Life Counts Project, designed to raise awareness across the globe of the importance of the world's biodiversity.
Subjects: Statistics.; Animal populations; Animal populations;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Occupancy estimation and modeling : inferring patterns and dynamics of species / by MacKenzie, Darryl I.(CARDINAL)328200;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-312).
Subjects: Animal populations; Animal populations;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Wildlife's ten-year cycle. by Keith, Lloyd Burrows,1931-(CARDINAL)333766;
Bibliography: pages 173-190.
Subjects: Animal populations.; Biological rhythms.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Estimating the size of wildlife populations using capture techniques / by Pollock, Kenneth Hugh,1948-(CARDINAL)165345; University of North Carolina (System).Institute of Statistics.(CARDINAL)165205;
Includes bibliographical references (leaf [15]).
Subjects: Animal populations.; Zoology; Sampling (Statistics);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Hawks, owls and wildlife / by Craighead, John J.(John Johnson),1916-2016.(CARDINAL)316445; Craighead, Frank C.,Jr.(Frank Cooper),1916-2001,author.(CARDINAL)321048;
Bibliography: pages 367-369.
Subjects: Predation (Biology); Hawks.; Owls.; Animal populations.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Hawks, owls, and wildlife / by Craighead, John J.(John Johnson),1916-2016.(CARDINAL)316445; Craighead, Frank C.,Jr.(Frank Cooper),1916-2001,author.(CARDINAL)321048;
Bibliography: pages 367-369.
Subjects: Predation (Biology); Hawks.; Owls.; Animal populations.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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No way home : the decline of the world's great animal migrations / by Wilcove, David Samuel.(CARDINAL)334472;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-230) and index.In this important and exceptionally well-written book, a leading wildlife biologist shows how human activity is not just erasing species and ecosystems but also cutting the ancient natural highways that make possible Earth's greatest wildlife spectacles.-Cover.
Subjects: Animal migration.; Animal populations.; Endangered ecosystems.; Environmental degradation.;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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Nature's great events / by Bass, Karen.(CARDINAL)326931;
Includes bibliographical references (page 315) and index.The great flood -- The great feast -- The great migration -- The great melt -- The great salmon run -- The great tide.In this companion book to the television series, six of the most spectacular natural phenomena on our planet are explored--the flooding of the Okavango Delta in Botswana; the melting of 10 million square kilometers of ice in the Arctic; the migration of the Serengeti; the great salmon run in British Columbia; the explosion of sea life in Alaska's coastal waters; and perhaps the greatest marine spectacle on the planet, the annual tide of sardines along South Africa's east coast.
Subjects: Natural history.; Animal migration.; Biological rhythms.; Animal populations.; Animal behavior.; Cycles.; Seasons.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Biological populations as indicators of environmental change. by United States.Environmental Protection Agency.Office of Policy, Planning, and Evaluation.;
Includes bibliographical references.Vol. 1. Neotropical migrant bird species -- North American freshwater fish -- Ducks in North America -- Coral reefs worldwide -- Amphibians worldwide -- Turtles worldwide -- Marine mammals -- Forests worldwide -- Summary of relative sensitivity of ecological indicators -- Summary of human activities causing species decline -- Monitoring environmental change.
Subjects: Animal populations.; Environmental degradation.; Environmental indicators.; Indicators (Biology); Plant populations.; Population biology.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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A review of open capture-recapture models for biologists in wildlife and fisheries / by Pollock, Kenneth Hugh,1948-(CARDINAL)165345; University of North Carolina (System).Institute of Statistics.(CARDINAL)165205;
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 18-19).
Subjects: Sampling (Statistics); Animal populations.; Zoology;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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