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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Cristina EisenbergPublisher: Island Press Imprint: Island Press Edition: None ed. Dimensions: Width: 15.30cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.363kg ISBN: 9781597263986ISBN 10: 1597263982 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 01 January 2011 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsThis engaging book explores the reasons we need big predators and explains the most revolutionary idea found in contemporary ecology: trophic cascades. For nearly a century ecologists have believed that nature is democratic, governed from the bottom up by the amount of solar energy converted to green biomass, the food of herbivores. Eisenberg makes the case for the alternative view top-down control of ecosystems by predators and other keystone species while diplomatically exploring a path for reconciling these disparate views. --Michael Soule Professor Emeritus, University of California, Santa Cruz A scientist with a poet''s command of language, Cristina Eisenberg writes with precision and passion . . . takes her reader on a breathtaking, sometimes heartbreaking tour of the planet from the Gulf of Maine to the Amazonian rain forests, the tropical coral reefs to old growth forests of the Northwest as well as rivers, lakes, and wetlands. I found the wealth of information not only accessible but riveting . . . Eisenberg''s powerful, beautifully written book . . . has the potential to open many people''s eyes, minds, and hearts. --Elizabeth Cunningham Huffington Post A scientist with a poet''s command of language, Cristina Eisenberg writes with precision and passion...takes her reader on a breathtaking, sometimes heartbreaking tour of the planet from the Gulf of Maine to the Amazonian rain forests, the tropical coral reefs to old growth forests of the Northwest as well as rivers, lakes, and wetlands... I found the wealth of information not only accessible but riveting... Eisenberg''s powerful, beautifully written book... has the potential to open many people''s eyes, minds, and hearts. --Elizabeth Cunningham Huffington Post Author InformationCristina Eisenberg is a conservation biologist at Oregon State University, College of Forestry, and Boone and Crockett Fellow who studies how wolves affect forest ecosystems throughout the West. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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