Biodiversity

Provides a state-of-the-science overview of arthropods affecting grape production around the world.

There has been a deluge of material on biodiversity, starting from a trickle back in the mid-1980's.

This book continues as volume 4 of a multi-compendium on Edible Medicinal and Non-Medicinal Plants.

Although the unique flora of the Socotra Archipelago with its high degree of endemism has received much attention recently, little information is available on the vegetation and related ecological aspects.

This book demonstrates in detail all phases of the 9th National Forest Inventory of Finland (1996-2003): the planning of the sampling design, measurements, estimation methods and results.

This edited volume addresses a rising concern among natural resource scientists and management professionals about decline of the many plant and animal species associated with early-successional habitats, especially within the Central Hardwood Region of the USA.

Found in every plant species, the diversity of endophytic micro-organisms can be extremely high within different plant organs and tissue types.

Diatom biology, genomics and ecology are becoming more relevant to the human species.

The work builds on the results of the COMPETE Bioenergy Competence Platform for Africa, which was supported by the European Commission and coordinated by WIP Renewable Energies, Germany.

This book has a wider approach not strictly focused on crop production compared to other books that are strictly oriented towards bees, but has a generalist approach to pollination biology.

This book presents some results on selected taxa in the Himalayan region (mainly Nepal), pinpoints the threats to their survival and suggests ways how to avoid their extinction.

This book focuses on the long-term interactions between people and nature in and around Lake Biwa, one of the oldest lakes in the world.

Co-published with UNESCOA product of the UNESCO-IHP project on Water and Cultural Diversity, this book represents an effort to examine the complex role water plays as a force in sustaining, maintaining, and threatening the viability of culturally diverse peoples.

This book continues as volume 2 of a multi-compendium on Edible Medicinal and Non-Medicinal Plants.

This is the first comprehensive science-based textbook on the biology and ecology of the Baltic Sea, one of the world's largest brackish water bodies.

In The Wrong Place: Alien Marine Crustaceans - Distribution, Biology And Impacts provides a unique view into the remarkable story of how shrimps, crabs, and lobsters - and their many relatives - have been distributed around the world by human activity, and the profound implications of this global reorganization of biodiversity for marine conservation biology.

Forest biodiversity is crucial to the ecological, economic, and social well-being of earth's civilisations.

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

Sustainable use of biodiversity is measured under the headings ';Direct-use value', ';Indirect-use value' and ';Non-use value'.

The book examines ideas about the making and shaping of Greenland's society, environment, and resource spaces.

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

The book covers the topics: Mycorrhiza and Mycobionts Prospects of mycorrhizal fungi in the Himalaya: Forms, functions and management Diversity of Himalayan lichens Lichen diversity of the Eastern Himalaya and its conservation.

Agroforestry (AF) is a dynamic, ecologically based, natural resources management system that, by integrating trees on farms, ranches, and in other landscapes, diversifies and increases production and promotes social, economic, and environmental benefits for land users.

This is the first comprehensive science-based textbook on the biology and ecology of the Baltic Sea, one of the world's largest brackish water bodies.

This study was conducted by the Asian Development Bank to assess the impact of projects involving the construction of dams on aquatic biodiversity in Nepal.

This publication presents a biodiversity baseline assessment that was conducted in 2014-2015 at the Phipsoo Wildlife Sanctuary in southern Bhutan.

This publication provides an overview of the "e;blue economy"e; and emphasizes its significance for protecting the biodiversity of natural resources in Southeast Asia.

The natural river management (NRM) approach is designed to harness the natural functions of river systems so they sustainably provide important services such as water supply and flood and drought management.

A survey of the development and practice of butterfly conservation in south east Australia, tracing evolution of the science through a series of cases from focus on single subspecies through increasing levels of ecological complexity to critical biotopes and communities.

Mites and ticks are everywhere and acarologists go after them - some explore their bewildering diversity, others try to understand their how and why.

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This book is part of the Sabkha Ecosystems series.

Ponds are an exceptional freshwater resource around the world and represent thirty percent of the global surface area of standing water.

The first and so far only Plant Geography of Chile was written about 100 years ago, since when many things have changed: plants have been renamed and reclassified; taxonomy and systematics have experienced deep changes as have biology, geography, and biogeography.

The Late Cenozoic Yushe Basin, Shanxi Province, China embodies the bulk of our knowledge on successions of terrestrial vertebrates in the northern part of East Asia.

This multi-compendium is a comprehensive, illustrated and scientifically up-to-date work covering more than a thousand species of edible medicinal and non-medicinal plants.

Central Amazonian floodplain forests are an unique and endangered ecosystem.

Taphonomic bias is a pervasive feature of the fossil record.

Marine biology has always played an important role in biological research, being at the origin of many key advances.

Deserts are unique ecosystems with their own biotic and abiotic components, and are often rich in renewable natural resources, the appropriate management of which can contribute significantly to the sustainable management of desert regions for the welfare of the people.

Outside Russia very little is known about the terrestrial ecology, vegetation, biogeographical patterns, and biodiversity of the enormously extensive ecosystems of Yakutia, Siberia.

The aim of this manual is to provide a comprehensive guide to the methods involved in collecting, preparing and screening plants for bioactive properties for manipulating key ruminal fermentation pathways and against gastrointestinal pathogens.

This volume focuses on the broad pattern of increasing biodiversity through time, and recurrent events of minor and major ecosphere reorganization.

1 Plantation forests and biodiversity: Oxymoron or opportunity?

Conservation and biodiversity of protists The conservation of biodiversity is not just an issue of plants and vertebrates.

India has 7,500 km of coastline with diverse habitats and rich biota.