Biodiversity

We have always had land in which the agricultural productivity is limited because there is not enough moisture.

Human activities are depleting ecosystems at an unprecedented rate.

A tiny organism called pollen pulls off one of nature's key tasks: plant reproduction.

Community forestry focuses on the link between forest resources and livelihoods and contributes to forest conservation and reforestation.

In an age of increasing environmental problems, ecology has had to grow up fast from a discipline dealing with relatively simple interactions between species to one that tries to explain changes in global patterns of diversity and richness.

The book covers interplay between pest management strategies and safety of pollinators.

The Ecological Importance of High-Severity Fires, presents information on the current paradigm shift in the way people think about wildfire and ecosystems.

The lives and futures of children and animals are linked to environmental challenges associated with the Anthropocene and the acceleration of human-caused extinctions.

As water resources diminish with increasing population and economic pressures as well as global climate change, this book addresses a subject of ever increasing local and global importance.

Wetland Habitats is a practical and easy to use manual for wetland restoration and conservation of diverse animal species.

This book provides an in-depth overview of marine greens and their environmental and biotechnological applications.

There is much public concern about threats to global biodiversity.

The proposed book aims to understand the mechanism of survival of microorganisms in response to chemical stress in various ecological niches that suffer direct human intervention, more so the agricultural, domestic and hospital settings.

This Handbook gives a comprehensive, international and cutting-edge overview of Sustainable Development.

This text is a history of the world's oldest global conservation body - the World Conservation Union, established in 1948 as a forum for governments, non-governmental organizations and individual conservationists.

After decades of operating off-the-backfoot and protecting and conserving nature perceived as under threat, conservationists are becoming proactive and creative in the face of habitat loss, agricultural intensification and climate change.

Die absichtliche Einfuhr und das unbeabsichtigte Einschleppen gebietsfremder Artenstellen weltweit eine wichtige Gefährdungsursache für die biologische Vielfalt dar.

Discusses the benefits and risks, as well as the economic and socio-political realities, of rewilding as a novel conservation tool.

A compact overview of the process, theory and practice of conservation and its central place in environmental issues.

Biomass is set to play an increasing role in the supply of energy, both in the industrialised world and in developing countries, as concern for the state of the global environment grows.

How to decelerate loss of global biodiversity is one of the greatest challenges of our generation.

Applying a socio-ecological framework, this book explores how the innovative approach of commons-based organic apple breeding can contribute to sustainability in agricultural and food systems more widely.

Every year, the world's governments spend over US $700 billion subsidizing activities that harm the environment.

Today global changes and human activities affect plants within each of the world's ecosystems.

This book describes and illustrates 300 species of free-living marine nematodes from the East China Sea and includes eighteen new species.

This book focuses on the toxicity of various organic and inorganic pollutants, their eco-toxicological effects and eco-friendly approaches for remediation of environmental pollutants.

This book reflects on Indonesia's recent experience with REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation), all set within a broader discussion of neoliberal environmentalism, hyper-capitalism, and Indonesian carbon politics.

Human activities are depleting ecosystems at an unprecedented rate.

Anthropos, in the sense of species as well as cultures and ethics, locates humans as part of much larger orders of existence - fundamental when thinking about climate change.

In this in-depth analysis of First Nations opposition to the oil sands industry, James Heydon offers detailed empirical insight into Canadian oil sands regulation.

The book offers a comparative look at the social strategies of five carnivorous social predators (four terrestrial and one marine) that make them successful hunting units.

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing human kind owing to the great uncertainty regarding future impacts, which affect all regions and many ecosystems.

Amidst the pressing challenges of global climate change, the last decade has seen a wave of forest carbon projects across the world, designed to conserve and enhance forest carbon stocks in order to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and offset emissions elsewhere.

Semi-arid woodlands are an important part of the Australian landscape and they have been the focus for scientific research by CSIRO since the 1960s.

The present monograph is the fourth of six volumes which review the Hypotricha, a major group of the spirotrichs.

Sustainability Beyond 2030: Trajectories and Priorities for Our Sustainable Future is an indispensable guide to understanding our planet's sustainability past, present, and future.

This text reflects the immense current growth in interest in agroecology and changing approaches to it.

This book discusses linkages between the natural and disturbed chemical composition of the earth's surface and ecological and human health.

This book brings a unique perspective to animal movement studies because all cases came from tropical environments where the great diversity, either biological and structurally (trees, shrubs, vines, epiphytes), presents the animal with several options to fulfill its live requirements.

Waste and Urban Regeneration examines the Nanjido region of Seoul and its transformation from Nanjido Landfill to the World Cup Park, and its relation to the urban ecology within the context of the city's urban development during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

In recent years the concept of the resource "e;nexus"e; has been both hotly debated and widely adopted in research and policy circles.

For fans of The Lost City of Z, Walking the Amazon, and Turn Right at Machu Picchu comes naturalist and explorer Paul Rosolies extraordinary adventure in the uncharted tributaries of the Western Amazona tale of discovery that vividly captures the awe, beauty, and isolation of this endangered land and presents an impassioned call to save it.

This book presents ecological principles and applications of managing biodiversity in agriculture to decrease pesticide use and produce safe food.

Known as "e;a dream place for scientists"e; the Lamto savannas, located on the edge of the Cote d'Ivoire rain forests, are some of the only savannas in the world where ongoing ecological research has endured for over forty years.

This volume examines women and wildlife trafficking via a collection of narratives, case studies and theoretical syntheses from diverse voices and disciplines.

This book is dedicated to the Silver Bream, a fish too long neglected by anglers, wildlife enthusiasts and science.

Drylands have been cradles to some of the world's greatest civilizations, and contemporary dryland communities feature rich and unique cultures.

Crawfish Frogs (Rana areolata) have been called the most secretive frog in North America, and it is unusual in the twenty-first century - in the most scientifically advanced country in the world - that basic discoveries can still be made on an animal that inhabits a quarter of the United States.

It is estimated that roughly 1000 new ecological and environmental models join the ranks of the scientific literature each year.