Biodiversity

We got ourselves into this.

Australian Saltmarsh Ecology presents the first comprehensive review of the ecology and management of Australian saltmarshes.

The idea that nature provides services to people is one of the most powerful concepts to have emerged over the last two decades.

An in-depth look at the fish that inhabit the fresh waters of Britain and Ireland.

This new, second edition of Primate Ethnographies: Fieldwork from Across the Globe is a collection of first-person accounts of immersive field studies of primates, people, and institutions, revealing the excitement of studying wild primates and the multi-faceted challenges involved in conducting field research.

Animal welfare has long been recognised as central to the role of the veterinary professional, but this is increasingly aligned with the welfare of humans and the broader environment in which we co-exist.

This text examines the international agreements governing trade in genetic resources - crucial resources for world agriculture, food security and large industries such as pharmaceuticals.

The Amazon region is the focus of intense conflict between conservationists concerned with deforestation and advocates of agro-industrial development.

This book examines the current situation, levels of adoption, management practices, and the future outlook of conservation agriculture in India, and also in other tropical and subtropical regions of the world.

This engaging volume explores the management of fire in one of the world's most flammable landscapes: Australia's tropical savannas, where on average 18% of the landscape is burned annually.

In a perspective of sustainable management, the balance between ecological dynamics, social and economic are now at the heart of ecological modeling and environmental strategies screenwriting.

Human activities are affecting the global environment in myriad ways, with numerous direct and indirect effects on ecosystems.

This is the first ever monumental and scientific documentation of the faunal wealth of the Indian Desert state of Rajasthan.

Shifting cultivation is one of the oldest forms of subsistence agriculture and is still practised by millions of poor people in the tropics.

This book reviews state-of-the-art research into trait-based effects and their importance in community and ecosystem ecology.

According to many authorities the impact of humanity on the earth is already overshooting the earth's capacity to supply humanity's needs.

A wide range of crop genetic resources is vital for future food security.

Biogeography and Evolution in New Zealand provides the first in-depth treatment of the biogeography of New Zealand, a region that has been a place of long-enduring interest to ecologists, evolutionary scientists, geographers, geologists, and scientists in related disciplines.

This book recounts the habits of many interesting and unusual exceptions to the rule that insects are typically terrestrial forms of life.

Explore the conservation implications of recent armed conflicts in the tropical forest regions of Asia, Africa, and Latin America!

Ecology of Australian Temperate Reefs presents the current state of knowledge of the ecology of important elements of southern Australian sub-tidal reef flora and fauna, and the underlying ecological principles.

Sustainability Science and Technology: An Introduction explains the root causes of global failures in natural and human systems, as well as the most readily available technological solutions.

Rethinking Wilderness and the Wild: Conflict, Conservation and Co-existence examines the complexities surrounding the concept of wilderness.

This book provides a conceptually organized framework to understand the phenomenon of biological invasions at the Anthropocene global scale.

Earth Matters on Stage: Ecology and Environment in American Theater tells the story of how American theater has shaped popular understandings of the environment throughout the twentieth century as it argues for theater's potential power in the age of climate change.

This book concentrates on the marine mammalian group of Odontocetes, the toothed whales, dolphins, and porpoises.

Microbes are the most abundant organisms in the biosphere and regulate many critical elemental and biogeochemical phenomena.

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This book explores the political ecology of agrofuels as an encompassing socio-spatial transformation process consisting of a series of changing contexts, political reconfigurations, and the restructuring of social and labour relations.

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are goals set by the United Nations to address the global challenges and foster sustainable development and harmony.

The introduction of transfrontier conservation areas (TFCAs) in southern Africa was based on an enchanting promise: simultaneously contributing to global biodiversity conservation initiatives, regional peace and integration, and the sustainable socio-economic development of rural communities.

Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) is an approach that offers multiple related benefits: securing rural livelihoods; ensuring careful conservation and management of biodiversity and other resources; and empowering communities to manage these resources sustainably.

This book summarizes and analyzes the biology, ecology, exploitation and management of small cetaceans in Japan.

This book won the 2023 The Wildlife Society Publication Award in the authored book category.

This is the first comprehensive international atlas featuring all ecological services provided by Ramsar wetlands, with complete views of all Ramsar sites, through remote sensing and mapping.

Amphibians are among the most threatened groups of animals on earth.

Crop wild relatives (CWR) are plant species which are more or less closely related to crops.

The study of animal movement has always been a key element in ecological science, because it is inherently linked to critical processes that scale from individuals to populations and communities to ecosystems.

Biofuels and Rural Poverty makes an original contribution to the current controversial global debate on biofuels, in particular the consequences that large-scale production of transport fuel substitutes can have on rural areas, principally in developing countries but also in some poor rural areas of developed countries.

Groundwater resources are facing increasing pressure from consuming and contaminating activities.

This book encapsulates the extensive knowledge developed by CSIRO's National Rangelands Program on how rangeland landscapes function and the implications for management.

Engaging and thought-provoking, this book examines how humans see and treat other animals and argues that we should extend equal consideration and respect to all beings, human and nonhuman alike.

Explains the current state of play in relation to biodiversity loss and explores a sustainable path for the future.

The negative impacts of carbon emissions from human activities continue to dramatically reshape the environmental, political, and social landscape.

The Amazon region is the focus of intense conflict between conservationists concerned with deforestation and advocates of agro-industrial development.

Authored by world-class scientists and scholars, The Handbook of Natural Resources, Second Edition, is an excellent reference for understanding the consequences of changing natural resources to the degradation of ecological integrity and the sustainability of life.

This book addresses the major policy, economic and financial issues encountered in global forest carbon.

Aquaculture is a rapidly growing industry and aquaculture practices can directly interact with and depend upon the surrounding environment.

This book analyses the status and prospects of the global governance of Access Benefit Sharing (ABS) in the aftermath of 2010's Nagoya Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).