Ask Prof. Steve Steve #2

Welcome to the second edition of Ask Prof. Steve Steve. Today's question comes from Michael in Newark, Delaware.

Hi, my name is Michael, from Newark, Delaware, and I've noticed you're running a little question and answer session on the Panda's Thumb, a wonderful little blog I've run across and that I read quite faithfully. That said, I am a junior at high school, and one of my areas of interest is in the environmental sciences. I am self studying in the area (partially for myself, and partially for the yearly envirothon competitions) and I'm wondering if you could suggest a textbook that is a bit more advanced and more detailed then my current text (Environmental Science, Eighth Edition, written by Richard T. Wright and Bernard J Nebel) or the one I've used in the past (the ecology chapters of Biology, 6th edition, by Campbell and Reece)? Thank you kindly for your time and your help.

I contacted a friend of Dr. Wesley Elsberry, Dr. Jane Packard at Texas A&M University, who recommended the following books for Envirothon:

EG Bolen and WL Robinson (1998) Wildlife Ecology and Management. Prentice Hall

JE Rodiek and EG Bolen (1991) Wildlife and habitats in managed landscapes. Island Press

ML Hunter (2002) Fundamentals of conservation biology. Blackwell Science

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