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  1. Biodiversity is the best defence against corn pests
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Farmers' first line of defence against pests is the ecosystem in and around their fields. With widespread or indiscriminate use of pesticides essential biodiversity is lost - and the result is more frequent and serious infestations, and a decline in food security.
  2. Breakfast of Biodiversity
    The Truth About Rain Forest Destruction

    Resource Type: Book
  3. Brock University
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  4. Canadian Polar Commission
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  5. Canadian Wildlife Federation
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  6. Changing Perspectives
    Annual Report of the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario 1999/2000

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2000
  7. Chris Chopik, Professional Speaker, Author, and Founder of www.EvolutionGreen.com
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  8. A Collective Ignorance of Ecosystems
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    Loss of genetic diversity is one consequence of the Industrial Forestry Paradigm that dominates the U.S. timber industry and all public agencies from the state forestry agencies to the federal agencies like the Forest Service.
  9. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1988
  10. Connexions Digest
    Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
  11. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1991
  12. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1992
  13. Ecologist Special Report: From fish to forests and conflicts to coffee ... how humans are affected by climate-driven species shifts
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Climate change has species on the move, with major consequences for biodiversity and human communities. Building resilience has never been more important and Indigenous Peoples are showing the way.
  14. Ecology and Social Action
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1973
    That there is an important connection between ecology and social action is now self-evident. There seems little reason to doubt that there is some connection between what ecology tells us about the degraded quality of life and the social action needed to improve it.
  15. The End of the Line
    How Overfishing is Changing the World and What We Eat

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    Decades and even centuries of habitat destruction, pollution, and overfishing have transformed and degraded the oceans.
  16. The Enemy of Nature
    The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    We live in and from nature, but the way we have evolved of doing this is about to destroy you. Capitalism and its by-products -- imperialism, war, neoliberal globalization, racism, poverty, and the destruction of community -- are all playing a part in the destruction of our ecosystem.
  17. Fresh Water Seas
    Saving the Great Lakes

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    Weller takes readers on a tour of the Great Lakes region, tracing its natural history from the time before human habitation. He describes how the region has been affected by uncontrolled development to the point where it now contains one of the planet's most intensive concentrations of industrial and agricultural activity.
  18. A Green History of the World
    The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    Ponting tracks the "green" history of the world showing how throughout history civilizations have collapsed when they exhausted the earth's natural resources.
  19. Greenhouse Earth
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
  20. How the 'ecosystem' myth has been used for sinister means
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    When, in the 1920s, a botanist and a field marshal dreamed up rival theories of nature and society, no one could have guessed their ideas would influence the worldview of 70s hippies and 21st-century protest movements. But their faith in self-regulating systems has a sinister history.
  21. Islands of Hope
    Ontario's Parks and Wilderness

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
  22. Legacy
    The Natural History of Ontario

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    A comprehensive, extensively illustrated natural history of Ontario, covering bedrock, soils, birds, mammals, insects, wildflowers, forests, prehistoric life, and much more.
  23. Major study shows species loss destroys essential ecosystems
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Long term research by German ecologists proves that loss of biodiversity has "direct, unpleasant consequences for mankind."
  24. A modern Noah's Ark
    Montreal's Biodome recreates four ecosystems under one roof

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1993
  25. Nature Conservancy of Canada
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  26. Nature of Economies
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
    Jacobs argues that since human beings exist wholly within nature as part of natural order in every respect, we should look to the processes of nature for vibrant and flexible models of economic planning.
  27. The Redesigned Forest
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    An exploration of how forests are utilized, with particular interest paid to the old-growth coniferous forests of the Pacific north-west.
  28. Regeneration
    Toronto's Waterfront and the Sustainable City

    Resource Type: Book
  29. Ryan Reynolds and a host of other Canadian celebrities have joined forces to protect nature
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Ryan Reynolds, Jason Priestley, William Shatner and Rachel Blanchard, star in A Force for Nature - a 30 minute television journey through some of our most magnificent but threatened landscapes.
  30. Socialist Register 1993
    Volume 29: Real Problems False Solutions

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1993
  31. Sources welcomes Chris Chopik, Professional Speaker, Writer, and Founder of www.EvolutionGreen.com
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Sources welcomes Chris Chopik, Professional Speaker, Writer, and Founder of www.EvolutionGreen.com.
  32. Special Places
    The Changing Ecosystems of the Toronto Region

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Special Places explores the changing ecosystem of the Toronto area over the past century, looking at the environmental conditions that influence the whol region and at the surprising range of plants and animals you can find in many of its natural spaces.
  33. The Tragedy of the Commodity
    Oceans, Fisheries, and Aquaculture

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2015
    Although humans have long depended on oceans and aquatic ecosystems for sustenance and trade, only recently has human influence on these resources dramatically increased, transforming and undermining oceanic environments throughout the world. Marine ecosystems are in a crisis that is global in scope, rapid in pace, and colossal in scale. Longo, Clausen, and Clark explore the role human influence plays in this crisis, highlighting the social and economic forces that are at the heart of this looming ecological problem.
  34. WWF -- Canada
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization

Experts on Ecosystems in the Sources Directory

  1. American Museum of Natural History
  2. Natural History Museum


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