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Essentials of conservation biology, sixth edition, combines theory and applied and basic research to explain the connections between conservation biology and ecology, climate change biology, the protection of endangered species, protected area management, environmental economics, and sustainable development. Richard primack is a professor of biology with a specialization in plant ecology, conservation biology, tropical rain forest ecology, and climate change biology. This explores climate change via seasonal nature observations, alongside scientific explanations, in. Buy an introduction to conservation biology by richard b. The author draws inferences from his data that readers should take heed of. Richard primack is a professor of biology at boston university and past president of the association for tropical biology and conservation. For this book and many of the books below, primack worked with coauthors to adapt his conservation biology books to the local audience by including relevant examples, maps, photos, literature. The author richard primack, a professor of biology at boston university, compared the information in henry david thoreaus journals with his own modern day research to understand and measure how the climate and the plant and animal species of the area around walden pond in concord ma have changed over the past 150 years. Primack is professor of biology at boston university.
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