Mushrooms of the Southeastern United States, Alan E. Bessette, Arleen R. Bessette, Dail L. Dunaway, William C. Roody

Автор: Bessette Alan E., Roody William C., Bessette Arlee
Название: Mushrooms of the Southeastern United States
ISBN: 081563112X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815631125
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Serves as a comprehensive field guide to the mushrooms of the southeastern United States. Featuring more than 450 species, this volume includes descriptions and color photographs. It contains the useful detail required by advanced students and professional mycologists, and emphasizes identification based on macroscopic field characters.

Автор: Reed F. Noss
Название: Fire Ecology of Florida and the Southeastern Coastal Plain
ISBN: 0813056713 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813056715
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: 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.Reviewing fossil evidence, Noss shows that fire has been important to the Southeastern Coastal Plain for tens of millions of years. He explains how the region's natural fire patterns are connected to its climate, high rate of lightning strikes, physical chemistry, and vegetation. But urbanization has recently reduced the frequency and range of these fires in profound ways. Noss believes the practice of controlled burns can and should be improved in order to protect fire-dependent species from extinction.Noss argues that fire managers should mimic the natural fire regimes of an area when conducting controlled burns. Based on what the species of the Southeast experienced during their evolutionary histories, he makes recommendations about pyrodiversity, how often and in what seasons to burn, the optimal heterogeneity of burns, mechanical treatments such as cutting and roller-chopping, and the proper use of fuel breaks. In doing so, Noss is the first to apply the new discipline of evolutionary fire ecology to a specific region.This book is a fascinating history of fire ecology in Florida, an enlightening look at why fire matters to the region, and a necessary resource for conservationists and fire managers in the state and surrounding areas.

Автор: Carla Gheler-Costa, Maria Carolina Lyra-Jorge, Luciano Martins Verdade
Название: Biodiversity in Agricultural Landscapes of Southeastern Brazil
ISBN: 3110480832 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110480832
Издательство: Walter de Gruyter
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Описание: The state of Sao Paulo, Brazil, is one of the most densely populated and developed areas in South America. Such development is evident both in terms of industrialization and urbanization, as well as in agriculture, which is heavily based on sugar cane, Eucalyptus plantations and livestock. This intense land use has resulted in great alteration of the original land cover and fragmentation of natural ecosystems. For these reasons, it is almost a paradox that jaguar, a species that requires large areas of pristine forest to exist, is still found in some parts of the state of Sao Paulo. It is possible that wild animals could leave in coexistence with intense land use, or is it the case that such rare encounters with large wild animals in Sao Paulo will disappear in the near future?All ecologists are aware of the problems of habitat changes caused by humans, but it was not until recent years that researchers started to consider that the land used for production could also serve as an important habitat for many different kinds of wild species. This book is about this new approach to conservation. It also highlights the important role that sciences could and should have in this discussion in order to better understand the problems and propose possible solutions.