The Ocean of Today, The Legacy of Tomorrow takes you on an eye-opening journey through the intricate, fragile, and vital marine environments that sustain life on Earth.
The Ocean of Today, The Legacy of Tomorrow takes you on an eye-opening journey through the intricate, fragile, and vital marine environments that sustain life on Earth.
This book is the second volume of a compendium of the global distribution of some 3500 aquatic macrophyte species occurring in inland freshwater and brackish waterbodies worldwide, highlighting aspects of their ecology including endemism, world rarity, ecozone/ macroregional occurrence, ploidy state, species age, uses, and endangered status.
This book explores the current ecosystem status of tropical inland waters especially in Southeast Asia, the progress of ecosystem restoration in terms of current studies, technological interventions, policy recommendations, and stakeholder participation that gives due respect to traditional knowledge and cultural practices, and the challenges and opportunities of the restoration processes.
This book addresses the climate risk influencing biodiversity globally and discusses the sustainable use of biological diversity and its legal implications.
This book addresses the climate risk influencing biodiversity globally and discusses the sustainable use of biological diversity and its legal implications.
This book is the first comprehensive account of large-scale ecosystems (biomes) of Southern Africa (defined as area south of the Kunene and Zambezi Rivers).
This book is the first comprehensive account of large-scale ecosystems (biomes) of Southern Africa (defined as area south of the Kunene and Zambezi Rivers).
This book highlights the vital role of vegetation in terrestrial surface systems, emphasizing its importance in regulating climate change, acting as a carbon sink, and maintaining the surface energy balance by absorbing CO2 from human activities.
This book highlights various issues related to biodiversity conservation and land degradation, and the global challenges faced in achieving land degradation neutrality.
The incidence of anthropogenic fires in South America has increased lately, and fire effects on the biodiversity and ecosystem services are of great concern.
The book deals with the regulation of GMOs within the context of multiple principles and interests, including food security, sustainable development, and biodiversity.
The book deals with the regulation of GMOs within the context of multiple principles and interests, including food security, sustainable development, and biodiversity.
This book covers whole Europe within its geographical limits, providing not only an overview about biogeography and recent taxonomic status of Charophyte species but also in-depth information about recent knowledge about ecology, ontogenesis, morphology, palaeontology and systematics of this group of algae.
This book provides a comprehensive, detailed, and coherent spatio-temporal account of Caribbean mangrove evolution from its evolutionary origins to the present that is not available for any mangrove region in the world.
Le Rose siciliane autoctone costituiscono una ricca fonte di biodiversità finora poco utilizzata (e conosciuta) ma che merita di essere adeguatamente valorizzata.
Quoting contemporary accounts from hunters, missionaries and traders from the early nineteenth century onwards, this book illustrates the ecology of the country as it was emphasizing its rich large mammal fauna, its decline from increasing aridity of the country, it destruction by hunters, by disease, and most importantly, destruction of its vast herds, notably of wildebeest, due to the developing beef export economy and the erection of veterinary cordon fences depriving the large game of migration routes in times of drought.
Earthworms are the most important members of the soil detritivore community and function as soil engineers because of their effects on soil properties and their influence on the availability of resources for other organisms, including microorganisms and plants.
Earthworms are the most important members of the soil detritivore community and function as soil engineers because of their effects on soil properties and their influence on the availability of resources for other organisms, including microorganisms and plants.
This book is the first volume of a compendium of the global distribution some 3500 aquatic macrophyte species occurring in inland freshwater and brackish waterbodies worldwide, highlighting aspects of their ecology including endemism, world rarity, ecozone/ macroregional occurrence, ploidy state, species age, uses, and endangered status.
The book "e;Field Manual on Alien Flora of Kashmir Himalaya: Casual, Naturalised and Invasive Plants"e; has been prepared with two main goals in mind: (i) to promote awareness on the threats of invasive alien plants to biodiversity, ecology and environment, and (ii) to encourage research on, and management of, the alien plants.
This authored book is focused on SDG 14: Life below water, comprehensively addressing all facets of biotechnology and bioinformatics related to fisheries.
This authored book is focused on SDG 14: Life below water, comprehensively addressing all facets of biotechnology and bioinformatics related to fisheries.
