Biodiversity

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

This report provides insights on the political economy of biodiversity related policy reforms.

This report provides insights on the political economy of biodiversity related policy reforms.

This report examines six mechanisms that can be used to scale-up financing for biodiversity conservation and sustainable use and to help meet the 2011-20 Aichi Biodiversity Targets.

The implementation of biodiversity policies will often benefit different groups to a greater or lesser degree.

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.

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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 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.

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.