Long-Term Trends in Ecological Systems: A Basis for Understanding Responses to Global Change

The EcoTrends Editorial Committee sorted through vast amounts of historical and ongoing data from 50 long-term research sites in the United States and Antarctica to present in a logical format the variables commonly collected. This work provides cross-site comparisons of ecological responses to global change drivers, as well as long-term trends in global change drivers and responses at site and continental scales.

Exploring a Desert: Experiences of an Ecologist/Naturalist in a New Mexico Desert

In this book I try to convey my fascination with the natural history of many of the organisms that populate the desert environment with the hope that the reader will be enabled to share some of that fascination. Also there are descriptions of field experiments that provided insights into biological – physical environment interactions that could only be discerned by experimental approaches.    Walter G. Whitford