Biodiversity

Agriculture transforms the environment.

Bird migration is a well-researched phenological event.

Marine plankton, despite their tiny size, are crucial for the functioning of marine food webs.

Recent instances of bioinvasion, such as the emergence of the zebra mussel in the American Great Lakes, generated a demand among marine biologists and ecologists for groundbreaking new references that detail how organisms colonize hard substrates, and how to prevent damaging biomass concentrations.

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 book explains how with careful planning and design, the functions and performance of constructed wetlands can provide a huge range of benefits to humans and the environment.

This book presents a new account of Euphorbia in southern Africa.

In the last two decades since publication of the first edition, substantial advancements have been made in the science, the need for transdisciplinary approaches to coral reef protection greater than ever before.

**A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2025 SO FAR * A SUNDAY TIMES BEST BOOK TO READ THIS SUMMER **A transporting exploration of the deep sea, and how our planet s strangest, most ancient and astonishing creatures have urgent relevance to cutting-edge science today.

Focusing on ethnography and interviews with subsistence food producers, this book explores the resilience, innovation and creativity taking place in subsistence agriculture in America.

This volume comprehensively reviews recent advances in our understanding of the diversity of microbes in various types of terrestrial ecosystems, such as caves, deserts and cultivated fields.

Ecology of Fire-Dependent Ecosystems is brimming with intriguing ecological stories of how life has evolved with and diversified within the varied fire regimes that are experienced on earth.

In this volume, the Amazon and its adjacent rainforest are presented in all their important facets: First, there is the vast river system itself, with its network of white, black, and clear water rivers.

Human well-being relies critically on ecosystem services provided by nature.

This edited volume is an extensive collection of methods for investigating plant litter dynamics in ecosystems.

This book is about tropical biology in action- how biologists grapple with the ecology and evolution of the great species diversity in tropical rainforests and coral reefs.

Bidong Island is a small island located in the South China Sea, and is about 14 km from mainland Peninsular Malaysia.

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.

Biodiversity is decreasing at the fastest rate in the history of the earth, largely as a result of human activity.

In this innovative volume, the author addresses some important challenges related to the effective and equitable governance of marine protected areas (MPAs).

Despite their centrality to the operation of contemporary accredited zoo and aquarium institutions, the work of zoo veterinarians has rarely been the focus of a critical analysis in the social science and humanities.

A beautifully written and illustrated account of the threatened plant species that inhabit the British Isles.

Presents the state-of-the-art of model-based integration of ecology and economics in the field of biodiversity conservation.

This book is the first to integrate biological control into a conceptual framework - ecostacking - uniting all aspects of biological control and ecosystem services.

This book explains how with careful planning and design, the functions and performance of constructed wetlands can provide a huge range of benefits to humans and the environment.

Ecology of Fire-Dependent Ecosystems is brimming with intriguing ecological stories of how life has evolved with and diversified within the varied fire regimes that are experienced on earth.

At the turn of the eighteenth century, selfhood was understood as a "e;tabularasa"e; to be imprinted in the course of an individual's life.

Many of the encounters between farming and wildlife, especially vertebrates, involve some level of conflict which can cause disadvantage to both the wildlife and the people involved.

This new volume, Biological Assessment of Natural and Anthropogenic Ecosystems: Trends in Diagnosis of Environmental Stress, diverse methods and achievements in assessing the biological state of ecosystems are presented, biochemical, genetic and cytological methods are used, methodological achievements in this area are discussed in this volume.

Discover over 1,200 species of animals and plants found in the coastal regions of Britain and make the most of your surroundings, whether you are on a holiday browse or serious quest.

What do we know about Mediterranean Cold (Deep)-Water coral ecosystems?

Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs refer to the UN stipulated road-map for development in 17 defined areas, by 2030.

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.

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

Native temperate grasslands are Australia’s most threatened ecosystems.

Food is the sustenance of life.

In the context of Australia’s developing carbon economy, fire management helps to abate emissions of greenhouse gases and is an important means of generating carbon credits.

Richard Dawkins transformed our view of God in his blockbuster, The God Delusion, which sold millions of copies in English alone.

This book brings together chapters related to sustainable utilization of biological resources, including in situ and ex situ conservation of rare, endangered, and threatened plants.

This volume brings together a collection of case studies examining wildlife ecology and conservation across India.

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Insecurity provides an authoritative and comprehensive assessment of the threats presented to human security and well-being by the loss of ecosystems and biodiversity recently confirmed as one of the critical 'planetary boundaries' that has already been exceeded.

"e;Zoo animals"e; as a population are a diverse array of species from all around the globe.

Food security, crop protection, biodiversity, and human and environmental health are among the main needs and concerns of society.

Rethinking Wilderness and the Wild: Conflict, Conservation and Co-existence examines the complexities surrounding the concept of wilderness.

This fully updated special edition of the classic complete guide to the edible species that grow around us includes a new foreword from the author and a plate section with identification guides for all major species.

Farming and Wildlife argues forcefully that wild species are, in fact, beneficial to the land as a whole: without them its productivity will fall and farming will inevitably suffer.

Many traditional approaches to rural land management are strictly sectoral, with a rigid introspective focus.