Biodiversity

Este libro es el resultado de un gran esfuerzo por conocer la flora y fauna asociada a un relicto de bosque seco tropical dentro de una matriz urbana ubicada en Santa Marta, Colombia.

Este libro es el resultado de un gran esfuerzo por conocer la flora y fauna asociada a un relicto de bosque seco tropical dentro de una matriz urbana ubicada en Santa Marta, Colombia.

Esta obra surge a partir de los cuestionamientos que se han generado, tanto en el campo de las ciencias biomédicas como en los de la filosofía y el derecho, con respecto a los problemas que plantean los nuevos avances científicos desarrollados en el área de la biotecnología.

Colombia es uno de los países más ricos del planeta en especies de mariposas.

La Orinoquia es una de las regiones con mayor riqueza de fauna en Colombia.

This book is devoted to Agroecological Crop Protection, which is the declension of the principles of agroecology to crop protection.

This volume focuses on small mammal fossils from extinct Asian faunas of about 1 to 7 million years ago in North China.

This book compiles the main findings of the multidisciplinary long-term research program developed in the continental margin of one of the more productive and unknown areas of the world oceans, Northwest Africa.

This study, based on a literature review and simulations, shows the efficiency of cover crops at catching nitrate in most agriculture situations.

This volume constitutes the most recent and most comprehensive consideration of the largest family of bony fishes, the Cichlidae.

This book is the first to explore in detail the systematics and taxonomy of the digenean fauna of fish in Indian marine waters.

This volume in the series deals with the major Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (MAPs) of South America, providing information on major aspects of this specific group of plants on that continent (botany, traditional usage, chemistry, production/collection practices, trade and utilization).

This book provides a wealth of high-quality scientific information on the patterns and processes of vegetation change across a broad range of spatial and temporal scales, concentrating on Southwestern China, mostly on the Yunnan region, and extending to the Yangtze River valley near the boundaries separating Chongqing, Sichuan and Guizhou.

Volume 9 is part of a multicompendium Edible Medicinal and Non-Medicinal Plants, on plants with edible modified stems, roots and bulbs from Acanthaceae to Zygophyllaceae (tabular) and 32 selected species in Alismataceae, Amaryllidaceae, Apiaceae, Araceae, Araliaceae, Asparagaceae, Asteraceae, Basellaceae, Brassicaceae and Campanulaceae in detail.

This volume contains studies on the evolution and function of lightweight constructions of planktonic and other organisms, and examples of how they can be used to create new solutions for radical innovations of lightweight constructions for technological application.

The present volume by the author is based on the outcome of extensive explorations in the Himalayas for more than a decade.

True bugs (Heteroptera) are a diverse and complex group of plant-feeding and predatory insects important to food production, human health, the global economy and the environment.

Does extinction have to be forever?

Predaceous diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) constitute one of the largest families of freshwater insects (~ 4,200 species).

Grasslands are among the largest ecosystems in the world and consequently are of great importance to mankind.

Human activity is changing the global environment at an unprecedented rate while humanity faces a range of complex and interrelated challenges to local, regional and global development, human security and politics.

This book is devoted to the cultural and biological dimensions and values of landscapes, linking the concepts of biodiversity, landscape and culture and presenting an essential approach for landscape analysis, interpretation and sustainable dynamics.

This book investigates soil ecology and biodiversity for its ability to maintain a balance of beneficial organisms to support plant growth.

The book brings to light the most recent findings on the biogeography, biodiversity, host plant induction and natural history of gall inducing insects in the Neotropical region.

The oceans cover over 70% of our planet.

This book summarizes major aspects of the evolution of South American metatherians, including their epistemologic, phylogenetic, biogeographic, faunal, tectonic, paleoclimatic, and metabolic contexts.

This monograph on the Central European Magdalenian aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the archaeological record of this period.

In the era of current industrial and civil development, everyone is expressing a deep concern about the problem of environmental pollution.

This book arises from a 2011 international conference entitled Climate Change, Agri-Food, Fisheries and Ecosystems: Reinventing Research, Innovation, and Policy Agendas for an Environmentally and Socially-Balanced Growth (ICCAFFE2011), organized by the North-South Center for Social Sciences (NRCS) in collaboration with the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Germany and the Institute for Research and Development (IRD), France.

This book is the first comprehensive global review of all aspects of alien plant invasions in protected areas.

Large dam construction has significant environmental and social impacts at different scales.

Our lives and well being intimately depend on the exploitation of the plant genetic resources available to our breeding programs.

To comprehensively address the complexities of current socio-ecological problems involved in global environmental change, it is indispiseble to achieve an integration of ecological understanding and ethical values.

The book is a comprehensive manual of practice for execution of afforestation and tree planting programmes in arid and semi-arid tropics.

This book continues as volume 7 of a multi-compendium on Edible Medicinal and Non-Medicinal Plants.

More than 40,000 species of mites have been described, and up to 1 million may exist on earth.

The book is the first comprehensive analysis of the macroecology and geobotany of endemic vascular plants with case-studies and analyses from different regions in the world.

Climate change and the pressures of escalating human demands on the environment have had increasing impacts on landscapes across the world.

The tropical UK Territories have extensive coral reefs.

The book reviews the literature on the ecological succession of plants on fallowed swiddens in tropical forests.

Phytoplankton responses to human impact at different scales provides a state-of-the-art review of changes in the phytoplankton assemblages determined by human alterations of lakes and rivers.

"e;Diagnostics in Plant Breeding"e; is systematically organizing cutting-edge research reviews on the development and application of molecular tools for the prediction of plant performance.

This book continues as volume 5 of a multicompendium on Edible Medicinal and Non-Medicinal Plants.

This book continues as volume 6 of a multi-compendium on Edible Medicinal and Non-Medicinal Plants.

Today, problems such as deforestation, biodiversity loss and illegal logging have provoked various policy responses that are often referred to as forest and nature governance.

This book is the result of 14 years of collecting Entolomataceae in the native forests of Tasmania, Australia.

The tropical plant family Pandanaceae comprises three genera, Freycinetia, Pandanus and Sararanga.

Shallow lakes are important for their amenity value and the ecosystem services that they support.

This book synthesizes current methods used to quantify functional diversity, providing step-by-step examples for defining functional groups and estimating functional indices.

This book continues as volume 3 of a multi-compendium on Edible Medicinal and Non-Medicinal Plants.