"Cliff Ecology: Pattern and Process in Cliff Ecosystems" by Doug Larson, Uta Matthes, and Peter Kelly. 2000. [book review]

Book Review: 'Ecolinguistics: Language and ecology'

Ecolinguistics: language and ecology delivers an overall view and a critical approach on ecolinguistic studies. This book is an excellent resource to students, researchers, linguists and those working in the area of discourse analysis as well as ecology. The book claims presenting a news course for ecolinguistics including a framework for understanding the theory of ecolinguistics, exploration ...

Cliff hangers

The peregrine falcon holds a special place in the minds of environmentalists and conservation biologists. The crash in its population throughout the 1950s and 60s was linked to the rapidly increasing use of agricultural organochlorine pesticides which led to a thinning of the birds’ eggshells and dramatic breeding failure. Since the widespread ban on the use of these chemicals, populations have...

Cliff hanger

The asparagus season has recently ended for northern hemisphere crops. Tradition has it that, at the summer solstice, growers stop cutting spears to allow the plant to grow and produce enough resources to generate spears for the next spring’s crop. The plant is becoming increasingly fashionable and production is increasing to meet demand. But the cultivated asparagus has a wild relative that is...

CLiFF Notes

BOOK REVIEW Great Basin Riparian Ecosystems: Ecology, Management, and Restoration

Applied ecosystem scientists tend to share several articles of faith: (1) that a clearer understanding of spatial and temporal patterns will better inform management decisions; (2) that patterns and relationships need to be examined at multiple scales; and (3) that effective study of ecosystems is fundamentally interdisciplinary. Occasionally a project such as the one described in this book aff...