Cindy Lee Van Dover, "The Ecology of Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents"
English | ISBN: 0691049297 | 2000 | 448 pages | PDF | 34 MB
Teeming with weird and wonderful life-giant clams and mussels, tubeworms, "eyeless" shrimp, and bacteria that survive on sulfur-deep-sea hot-water springs are found along rifts where sea-floor spreading occurs. The theory of plate tectonics predicted the existence of these hydrothermal vents, but they were discovered only in 1977. Since then the sites have attracted teams of scientists seeking to understand how life can thrive in what would seem to be intolerable or extreme conditions of temperature and fluid chemistry. Some suspect that these vents even hold the key to understanding the very origins of life. Here a leading expert provides the first authoritative and comprehensive account of this research in a book intended for students, professionals, and general readers. Cindy Lee Van Dover, an ecologist, brings nearly two decades of experience and a lively writing style to the text, which is further enhanced by two hundred illustrations, including photographs of vent communities taken in situ.

Aaron M. Ellison, "Scaling in Ecology with a Model System "
English | ISBN: 0691172706 | 2021 | 336 pages | PDF | 7 MB
A groundbreaking approach to scale and scaling in ecological theory and practice

Mike Davis, "Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1786636247 | 496 pages | EPUB | 13.1 MB
A witty and engrossing look at Los Angeles' urban ecology and the city's place in America's cultural fantasies

Biomimetics : Connecting Ecology and Engineering by Informatics
by Akihiro Miyauchi and Masatsugu Shimomura
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9814968102 | 338 Pages | True PDF | 114 MB

Ethology and Behavioral Ecology of Mysticetes
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030984486 | 390 Pages | PDF (True) | 11 MB
In this book, an international team of leading marine mammal scientists, with a remarkably diverse set of backgrounds and areas of expertise, lead you through a synthesis of current knowledge on baleen whales. Baleen whales are the largest animals ever to have lived on this planet. They also have the lowest and most intense voices on Earth, most likely evolved to take advantage of ocean acoustic transmission conditions so as to be detectable across ocean basins. Some baleen whales can live to be 150-200 years old. They migrate many thousands of kilometers between feeding and breeding areas. They produce songs and calls that serve as behavioral foundations for establishing, maintaining and expanding their cultural identities. To conclude that we know the behavioral limits of these large brained, long-lived animals would be naïve. As baleen whale scientists, we are still beginning to comprehend the enormous complexities and natural histories of these remarkable animals.

David Costantini, "The Kestrel: Ecology, Behaviour and Conservation of an Open-Land Predator"
English | ISBN: 1108470629 | 2020 | 222 pages | PDF | 27 MB

James Stanescu, "The Ethics and Rhetoric of Invasion Ecology "
English | ISBN: 1498538304 | 2016 | 188 pages | EPUB | 854 KB
The Ethics and Rhetoric of Invasion Ecology provides an introduction to the controversial treatment and ongoing violence routinely utilized against non-native species. Drawing from the tradition of critical animal scholars, Stanescu and Cummings have assembled a group of advocates who argue for a different kind of relationship with foreign species. Where contemporary approaches often emphasize the need to eradicate ecological invaders in order to preserve delicate habitats, the essays in this volume aim to reformulate the debate by arguing for an alternative approach that advances the possibility of an ethics of co-habitation.

Ethology and Behavioral Ecology of Sirenia
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030907414 | 428 Pages | True EPUB | 48 MB
Despite their rich fossil history, there are only four surviving species of sirenians or sea cows, the only fully aquatic herbivorous mammals. The three species of manatees and the dugong live in the coastal waters rivers and lakes of more than 80 tropical and subtropical countries and are all on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. This book examines sirenian conservation biology through the lens of their behavioral ecology and ethology. Sirenian feeding, diving, movement, social and reproductive behaviors are reviewed by an international team of scientists from eight countries, with an emphasis on data gathered in the past 15 years.

English | ASIN: B09YJ15FC9 | 2022 | 6 hours and 30 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 178 MB
What is nature? What is humanity's place in nature? And what is the relationship of society to the natural world? In an era of ecological breakdown, answering these questions has become of momentous importance for our everyday lives and for the future that we and other life-forms face. In the essays of The Philosophy of Social Ecology, Murray Bookchin confronts these questions head on, invoking the ideas of mutualism, self-organization, and unity in diversity, in the service of ever-expanding freedom. Refreshingly polemical and deeply philosophical, these essays take issue with technocratic and mechanistic ways of understanding and relating to, and within, nature. More importantly, they develop a solid, historically and politically based ethical foundation for social ecology, the field that Bookchin himself created and that offers us hope in the midst of our climate catastrophe.

English | ASIN: B09ZK8BD4B | 2022 | 13 hours and 18 minutes | MP3 | M4B | 365 MB
In this brave and provocative work, former US Vice President Al Gore asserts that only a radical rethinking of our relationship with nature will save the Earth's ecology for future generations. Gore's analysis of where we've gone wrong ranges across politics, history, science, economics, psychology, and religion. He argues that only a worldwide mobilization can save us from disaster and presents a brilliant and comprehensive plan for action that encompasses not only the Earth's ecology, but also population trends, appropriate technology, and environmental education.