Biodiversity

The book contains detailed descriptions of the unique desert environment with particular emphasis on vegetation and survival strategies of plants.

This book provides a comprehensive, global exploration of the scale, scope, threats, and drivers of wildlife trafficking from a criminological perspective.

This book presents current meta-ecosystem models and their derivation from classical ecosystem and metapopulation theories.

This book will present information on Pantanal vegetation including an updated checklist of flora, useful plants, ecological aspects and some topics never published for this region, such as lichens.

This book takes readers on a journey through the history of water in the Coahuila desert.

This book provides a comprehensive monograph of the family Humiraceae.

This book represents an introduction to ecoacoustics theory, to the application of the Acoustic Complexity Indices (ACIs) to acoustic survey, and to the use of an innovative software to process acoustic data.

This book aims to synthesize the state of the art on biodiversity knowledge exchange practices to understand where and how improvements can be made to close the knowledge-implementation gap in conservation science and advance this interdisciplinary topic.

The book provides a comprehensive account of a tropical lake, Alchichica, considering that tropical limnology is by far less known and well-understood than temperate.

The book is based on results from the Russian expedition in the region of the Antarctic Peninsula and Powell Basin in the northern part of the Weddell Sea, as well as on the review of earlier research in the region.

The aim of this book is to bring together multidisciplinary research in the field of green infrastructure design, construction and ecology.

This volume builds on an international workshop held in 2019, inspired by James Lovelock's "e;The Revenge of Gaia - Why the Earth Is Fighting Back, and How We Can Still Save Humanity"e;.

Of the world's seven continents, Asia is the largest.

This book, as a part of a series of CERES publications, provides a multi-regional and cross-sectoral analysis of food and water security, especially in the era of climate risks, biodiversity loss, pressure on scarce resources, especially land and water, increasing global population, and changing dietary preferences.

Forests cover thirty-one percent of the world's land surface, provide habitats for animals, livelihoods for humans, and generate household income in rural areas of developing countries.

The book focuses on the interactions between international legal regimes related to biodiversity governance.

With almost 90% of terrestrial plant material entering the detrital pool, the processing of this significant carbon source is a critical ecosystem function to understand.

There has been growing academic interest in local food plants.

Arctic and Subarctic North America is particularly affected by climate change, where average temperatures are rising three times faster than the global average.

The book discusses the ways in which high hydrostatic pressure (i.

This book aims to quantify and discuss how societies have directly and indirectly benefited from ecosystem services in Patagonia; not only in terms of provisioning and cultural services, but also regulating and supporting services.

The contributed volume puts emphasis on a superior role of water in (bio)systems exposed to a mechanical stimulus.

This volume is a monograph of the genus Diplusodon (Lythraceae), written by the world authority on this plant group.

The Bahia Blanca Estuary is one of the largest coastal systems in Atlantic South America.

The monograph focuses on the European freshwater pearl mussel Margaritifera margaritifera, which is an endangered bivalve species.

Sea otters and polar bears are carnivorous marine mammals that still resemble their terrestrial ancestors.

This textbook provides the first overview of plant-animal interactions for twenty years focused on the needs of students and professors.

The Alboran Sea represents a regional Mediterranean space where North and South worlds merges, creating a geopolitical region where marine resources and maritime activities should be managed from a national and international perspectives.

Comprising of -18 sub-ethnic groups the indigenous communities, or better known as the Orang Asli, located in the Peninsular Malaysia, is a unique community in terms of their culture, lifestyle, and heritage.

Population genomics is revolutionizing wildlife biology, conservation, and management by providing key and novel insights into genetic, population and landscape-level processes in wildlife, with unprecedented power and accuracy.

The Bosco della Mesola represents one of the few remnants of coastal woodlands in Italy.

This book provides a detailed review of many different aspects of pathogens, from the effects of single base pair mutations to large-scale control options, bringing into a single volume over 100 years of findings from thousands of researchers worldwide.

This book gives the most detailed and comprehensive physico-geographical overview of the very unique country of Mongolia.

Stream Ecology: Structure and Function of Running Waters is designed to serve as a textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, and as a reference source for specialists in stream ecology and related fields.

Of the world's seven continents, Asia is the largest.

This edited volume documents the current nature conservation status of arable habitats in Europe.

This book delivers stimulating input for a broad range of researchers, from geographers and ecologists to psychologists interested in spatial perception and physicists researching in complex systems.

Among the deep-sea marine invertebrates, pycnogonids and crustaceans represent ecologically important and most diverse groups of species.

This book studies the application of green roofs in ecoregions of the western United States and Canada.

This book is focused on the marine mammalian groups the Otariidae and the Odobenidae, otherwise known as fur seals, sea lions and the walrus.

This book provides essential information on 12 cockroach assemblages with more than a thousand specimens analyzed and investigates the Jurassic site in Bakhar, Mongolia, as one of the most diverse fossil insect sites worldwide.

A book focused solely on Andean Cloud Forests (ACF) has never been published.

Marine Animal Forests (MAFs) are spread all over the world.

The system of the Tigris-Euphrates Rivers is one of the great river systems of southwestern Asia.

The novelty of the book is a strong focus on perception, perspectives and prediction by scientists with profound insight into the ecology of ecosystems or into human demands and activity.

This book provides a conceptually organized framework to understand the phenomenon of biological invasions at the Anthropocene global scale.

With more than 1,400 species, bats are an incredibly diverse and successful group of mammals that can serve as model systems for many unique evolutionary adaptations.

This book investigates the introduction of invasive species and their behavior in oceanic islands.

This is the first book to provide comprehensive information on the anatomy and ecology of arctic and alpine plants from cold sites around the globe, including representative species from Greenland, Iceland, Svalbard, Himalaya, Japan, Argentina, Ecuador and Western USA.

This book is part of a two-volume set that offers an innovative approach towards developing methods and tools for assigning conservation categories of threatened taxa and their conservation strategies by way of different phases of eco-restoration in the context of freshwater river systems of tropical bio-geographic zones.