MTU Library Catalogue

Conserving life on earth David W. Ehrenfeld.

By: Ehrenfeld, David W.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1972Description: xv, 360 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + hbk.Subject(s): Nature conservation | EcologyDDC classification: 301.31
Contents:
Introduction -- How natural communities are threatened: ecology and man-made change -- How natural communities are threatened: Pollution, industrial accidents and species manipulations -- Two endangered natural communities -- How species are threatened -- The fate of the blue whale -- Preservation of natural communities -- Analogues of natural communities -- Preservation of species -- Conclusions.

Published in 1970 under title: Biological conservation.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-351) and index.

Introduction -- How natural communities are threatened: ecology and man-made change -- How natural communities are threatened: Pollution, industrial accidents and species manipulations -- Two endangered natural communities -- How species are threatened -- The fate of the blue whale -- Preservation of natural communities -- Analogues of natural communities -- Preservation of species -- Conclusions.