Books by Harold A. Mooney

  •  Invasive Alien Species
    Invasive Alien Species Harold A. Mooney

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    Invasive Alien Species

    A New Synthesis

    Harold A. Mooney

    Invasive alien species are among today's most daunting environmental threats, costing billions of dollars in economic damages and wreaking havoc on ecosystems around the world. In 1997, a consortium of ...

  •  Invasive Species in a Changing World

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    Invasive Species in a Changing World

    Harold A. Mooney

    Changing patterns of global commerce are leading to the breakdown of biogeographic barriers that have historically kept the floras and faunas of different continents separate. Some introduced species ...

  •  Livestock in a Changing Landscape, Volume 1

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    Livestock in a Changing Landscape, Volume 1

    Drivers, Consequences, and Responses

    Henning Steinfeld

    The rapidly changing nature of animal production systems, especially increasing intensification and globalization, is playing out in complex ways around the world. Over the last century, livestock ...

  •  Livestock in a Changing Landscape, Volume 2

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    Livestock in a Changing Landscape, Volume 2

    Experiences and Regional Perspectives

    Pierre Gerber

    The rapidly changing nature of animal production systems, especially increasing intensification and globalization, is playing out in complex ways around the world. Over the last century, livestock ...

  •  Nature's Services
    Nature's Services Gretchen Daily

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    Nature's Services

    Societal Dependence On Natural Ecosystems

    Gretchen Daily

    Life itself as well as the entire human economy depends on goods and services provided by earth's natural systems. The processes of cleansing, recycling, and renewal, along with goods such as seafood, ...

  •  Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests

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    Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests

    Ecology and Conservation

    Rodolfo Dirzo

    Though seasonally dry tropical forests are equally as important to global biodiversity as tropical rainforests, and are one of the most representative and highly endangered ecosystems in Latin America, ...

  • The Work of Nature
    The Work of Nature Veronique Plocq-Fichelet

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    The Work of Nature

    How The Diversity Of Life Sustains Us

    Veronique Plocq-Fichelet

    "We do not question that flesh and bone and leaf litter will decay to dust, that seeds will sprout season after season and find renewed nourishment in the soil, that rivers can flow endlessly without ...

About the Author

Harold A. Mooney is a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University.