Biodiversity

This contributed volume provides a comprehensive, in-depth and subject-based reviews on the current status of active ingredients, sustainable use, biodiversity and conservation of certain endangered medicinal plants.

This book extensively covers issues and concerns related to plastics and micro/nano-plastics (MNPs) in the environment, offering a comprehensive exploration beyond simple collection and disposal processes.

The first book to describe all 13 species of otters, shows the beauty, ecology and fascination of otters in the world, also their plight in many countries.

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

There is much public concern about threats to global biodiversity.

The continuing quest for new drugs and agrochemicals has seen researchers looking to the natural world for potential products.

Sustainability Beyond 2030: Trajectories and Priorities for Our Sustainable Future is an indispensable guide to understanding our planet's sustainability past, present, and future.

Gene flow is a natural process that occurs spontaneously and enables the evolution of life.

Nematodes are small multicellular organisms that have been used as biological models since the 1960s.

Nematodes are small multicellular organisms that have been used as biological models since the 1960s.

Gene flow is a natural process that occurs spontaneously and enables the evolution of life.

There are many books on aspects of plant invasions, but none that focus on the key role of species interactions in mediating invasions.

There are many books on aspects of plant invasions, but none that focus on the key role of species interactions in mediating invasions.

Examining globally invasive alien birds, the first part of this book provides an account of 32 global avian invasive species (as listed by the Invasive Species Specialist Group, ISSG).

Examining globally invasive alien birds, the first part of this book provides an account of 32 global avian invasive species (as listed by the Invasive Species Specialist Group, ISSG).

Today, 55% of the world's human population lives in urban areas.

Today, 55% of the world's human population lives in urban areas.

Insect Conservation: A Global Synthesis is a landmark, field-defining work written by Professor Michael Samways, one of the founding fathers of this burgeoning discipline of conservation science.

Insect Conservation: A Global Synthesis is a landmark, field-defining work written by Professor Michael Samways, one of the founding fathers of this burgeoning discipline of conservation science.

This edited volume explores the crucial intersections between Indigenous Land-Based Knowledge (ILK), sustainability, settler colonialism, and the ongoing environmental crisis.

This highly original volume investigates and documents the complex interactions between small family farms and Man and Biosphere Reserves in Cuba.

This textbook introduces the basic concepts of mathematical modelling when applied to natural systems.

This short textbook introduces students to the concept of describing natural systems using mathematical models.

A major revision of the animal rights bible, referencing changes from the last 10 years including the rise of social media.

This book offers a multidisciplinary analysis of the degradation process of an ecosystem, drawing upon the Mar Menor as a case study to highlight the damage human pressure causes to the environment.

Mammalian predators are keystone species in any ecosystem.

Mammalian predators are keystone species in any ecosystem.

This comprehensive volume discusses the patterns and processes analyzed in macroecology with a distinct look at the theoretical and methodological issues underlying the discipline as well as deeper epistemological matters.

Read the fascinating story of one of the greatest unsung figures of the nature conservation movement, founder of the RSPB and icon of early animal rights activism, Etta Lemon.

Stronghold is Tucker Malarkey s enthralling account of an unlikely visionary, Guido Rahr, and his crusade to protect the world s last bastion of wild salmon.

Results of regular monitoring of the species diversity and structure of plant communities is used by conservation biologists to help understand impacts of perturbations caused by humans and other environmental factors on ecosystems worldwide.

Results of regular monitoring of the species diversity and structure of plant communities is used by conservation biologists to help understand impacts of perturbations caused by humans and other environmental factors on ecosystems worldwide.

From the time he was old enough to focus on an object, Tim Faulkner has had his eyes glued on things that slither, climb, claw, wrap, shake, hop and burrow.

This book examines the integration of human rights and environmental standards within international investment agreements (IIAs).

This elegant treatise examines the nature of kindness through the fascinating lenses and contexts of ancient, medieval and contemporary philosophy, natural history, theories of mind, of natural selection, eco-psychology and sociobiology.

Amphibians of Ecuador, Volume IV is the final installment in a four-volume series that provides comprehensive, well-illustrated, and authoritative insights into the amphibian species of Ecuador, making it an invaluable resource for biologists, conservationists, and others.

With a new introduction by the author Some thousands of years ago, the world was home to an immense variety of large mammals.

Natural pesticides and allelochemicals are used for protection against invasive plants, but when released into the environment they can have both positive and negative effects on plants.

There is no creature that quite embodies the beauty and grandeur of the American West as does the wild horse.

Armenia is a small landlocked mountainous country located in the Southern Caucasus.

The first edition of Carrion Ecology, Evolution, and Their Applications brought together multiple scientific disciplines to shed light on the importance of carrion within the context of ecology and evolutionary biology, and through applications ranging from human mass disasters to habitat/ecosystem conservation.

This book introduces the Chinese boletes, including the history, ecological and economic values, as well as the geographical distribution patterns with a highlight on the Tylopilus species.

Human activities are depleting ecosystems at an unprecedented rate.

Bill Bryson meets John Vaillant in this life list quest to see the rarest species in North America.

This landmark scientific reference for scientists, researchers, and students of marine biology tackles the monumental task of taking a complete biodiversity inventory of the Gulf of Mexico with full biotic and biogeographic information.

This book emphasizes the importance of the likelihood function in statistical theory and applications and discusses it in the context of biology and ecology.