Biogeography

Face to the current global energy crisis, there is an urgent necessity of searching for alternatives to fossil fuels, and this book shows how timber is a promising resource for sustainable energy production.

This updated and expanded A New Island Biogeography of the Sea of Corts, first published nearly 20 years ago, integrates new and broader studies encompassing more taxa and more complete island coverage.

The fundamental concepts of animal population are misunderstood; this book draws a road map to the future development of ecology.

This third volume focusses on anthropogenic organic pollutants harming the environment.

All sub disciplines in Organic Geochemistry (Petroleum Geochemistry, Environmental Geochemistry etc.

This atlas presents anatomical descriptions of the xylem, bark and pith of 264 species belonging to 71 families.

This book introduces readers to the background, general framework, main operators, and other basic characteristics of biogeography-based optimization (BBO), which is an emerging branch of bio-inspired computation.

This book comprehensively covers the different topics of wood polymer composite materials mainly synthesis methods for the composite materials, various characterization techniques to study the superior properties and insights on potential advanced applications.

The book represents a collection of papers presented at VII International Symposium "e;Biogenic-abiogenic interactions in natural and anthropogenic systems"e; that was held on 26-29 September 2022 in Saint Petersburg (Russia).

Truly high altitude aquatic ecosystems are found primarily at lower latitudes: vast regions in the tropical part of the Andes, the Himalayas and Tibet, considerable areas in East Africa, and minor zones of Oceania.

The word 'aliens' can be used in many ways, to invoke fear, dislike and fascination.

Provides a comprehensive synthesis of a fundamental phenomenon, the species–area relationship, addressing theory, evidence and application.

Geography in America at the Dawn of the 21st Century surveys American geographers' current research in their specialty areas and tracks trends and innovations in the many subfields of geography.

When looking at old pictures of Toronto, it is clear that the city's urban, economic, and social geography has changed dramatically over the generations.

Stromatolites are the most intriguing geobiological structures of the entire earth history since the beginning of the fossil record in the Archaean.

This comprehensive volume discusses the patterns and processes analyzed in macroecology with a distinct look at the theoretical and methodological issues underlying the discipline as well as deeper epistemological matters.

This book begins with the modeling of evolutionary constraints on morphological diversity in ecology and then extends to development and evolution.

This publication is the result of more than six years of hard work by a dedicated group of European urban forest and tree experts.

This book aims to serve as a centralized reference document for students and researchers interested in aspects of marine nitrogen fixation.

Coping with Global Environmental Change, Disasters and Security - Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks reviews conceptual debates and case studies focusing on disasters and security threats, challenges, vulnerabilities and risks in Europe, the Mediterranean and other regions.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This book is part of a two-volume set that offers an innovative approach towards developing methods and tools for assigning conservation categories of threatened taxa and their conservation strategies by way of different phases of eco-restoration in the context of freshwater river systems of tropical bio-geographic zones.

This volume describes the complex characteristics of almost all Russian coastal estuaries systematized in the following regions: the coasts of the White Sea, the Barents Sea, the Kara Sea, the Laptev Sea, the East Siberian Sea, the Chukchi Sea, the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov, the Baltic Sea, the Sea of Okhotsk, the Sea of Japan and the Bering Seas.

This book provides a representative assessment of the state of the art of research on Paleogene rotaliid larger foraminifera.

Monitoring Plant and Animal Populations offers an overview of population monitoring issues that is accessible to the typical field biologist and land managers with a modest statistical background.

The phenomenon of bird migration has fascinated people from time immemorial.

This volume addresses major evolutionary changes that took place during the Mesozoic and the Cenozoic.

Not Good Enough for Canada investigates the development of Canadian immigration policy with respect to persons with a disease or disability throughout the twentieth century.

Considering its importance, the history of fetal health and mortality remains a neglected area.

This book provides important insights into the operating principles of plants by highlighting the relationship between structure and function.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of recent research on estuaries of the east coast of India, and how changing biogeochemical dynamics as a result of climate change and human activity have impacted estuaries and other open water ecosystems.

This book presents research on precipitation partitioning processes in vegetated ecosystems, putting them into a global context.

Conservation biology -- using concepts from traditional resource management and modern population biology to preserve biological diversity -- has emerged as one of the most important areas of ecology In order to really understand the problems of decreasing diversity and the solutions to maintaining it, the attention of ecologists must be focused on larger spatial and temporal scales than they are used to.

This unique book provides a concise account of Indian Paleogene and presents a unified view of the Paleogene sequences of India.

This book on the Nondestructive Characterization and Imaging of Wood by Professor Voichita Bucur is truly the most outstanding reference on the subject ever written.

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This book provides a comprehensive overview of recent research on estuaries of the east coast of India, and how changing biogeochemical dynamics as a result of climate change and human activity have impacted estuaries and other open water ecosystems.

Evolutionary computation algorithms are employed to minimize functions with large number of variables.

Rice is the staple food for half of the world's population.

Brings together recent research and novel theories to review studies into the evolution, diversity and conservation of island plants worldwide.

Microbes are of key importance in the production, deposition and diagenesis of sediments.

Evolutionary computation algorithms are employed to minimize functions with large number of variables.

The biological effects of asteroid and comet impacts have been widely viewed as primarily destructive.

Predation is considered one of the distinct phenomena related to the interrelationships between species on the Earth.

In this book, David Stevenson offers us a look at the evolution of planets as they move from balls of mixed molten rock to vibrant worlds capable of hosting life.

This book gives readers new information to understand the mechanism of agarwood induction and therefore eradicate the myths surrounding agarwood formation.