Conservation Biology : Concepts and Applications

Growing interest and enrollments in conservation biology courses provide the perfect environment for this updated second edition.Conservation Biology: Concepts and Applications is ideal for your introductory nonmajors or combined courses. Its attractive, two-color interior contains more than 200 visuals. This new edition’s “ecosystems approach” features discussion of both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, describing each system’s characteristics, plant and animal life, and environmental problems and solutions. Conservation Biology’s clarified concepts and updated references allow students to investigate practical approaches to ecosystem management and resource conservation from a biological perspective.