Biodiversity

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.

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.