Biodiversity

Green Chemistry and Biodiversity: Principles, Techniques, and Correlations reports on new approaches to designing chemicals and chemical transformations that are beneficial for human health and the environment, a continuing emerging important field of study.

Using accessible farming practices to meet the growing demands on agriculture is likely to result in more intense competition for natural resources, increased greenhouse gas emissions, and further deforestation and land degradation, which will in turn produce additional stress in the soil-water-plant-animal continuum.

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While biodiversity loss is an ecological phenomenon, it also has further dimensions - political, social and, last but not least, economic.

Forest Certification examines the historical roots of forest certification, the factors that guide the development of protocols, the players involved, the factors determining the customers to be certified, and the benefits of certification.

This volume focuses on the tree, as a cultural and biological form, and examines the concept of folk value and its implications for biocultural conservation.

This volume examines the topic of local biodiversity conservation in the Asia-Pacific region, one of the most rapidly changing areas in the world.

This book identifies all valid species belonging to the superfamily Mactroidea living in American waters, distributed across fourteen biogeographical provinces.

This book highlights the efforts made by distinguished scientific researchers world-wide to meet two key challenges: i) the limited reserves of polluting fossil fuels, and ii) the ever-increasing amounts of waste being generated.

This book owes a great deal to the outstanding universal value of the natural heritage of Hubei Shennongjia, which offers an outstanding example of the ongoing ecological processes occurring in the development of intact subtropical mixed broad-leaved evergreen and deciduous forests in the northern hemisphere.

Today, the risks associated with global environmental change and the dangers of extreme climatic and geological events remind us of humanity's dependence on favourable environmental conditions.

Demonstrating the shortcomings of current policy and legal approaches to access and benefit-sharing (ABS) in the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), this book recognizes that genetic resources are widely distributed across countries and that bilateral contracts undermine fairness and equity.

This handbook shows how the techniques of point-pattern analysis are useful for tackling ecological problems.

Vegetation communities in Australia's riverine landscapes are ecologically, economically and culturally significant.

The crucian is a freshwater fish species that has seen a renaissance of interest in angling and conservation communities in Britain.

This book is the story of the natural history of Chagos Archipelago, and of the efforts of many to get it recognized as an important and protected wildlife reserve.

The revitalizing and restoration of rivers, creeks and streams is a major focus of urban conservation activity throughout North America and Europe.

A practical guide to the protection and management of ecosystems against invasions by non-indigenous plant species.

Truffles are hypogeous ectomycorrhizal ascomycetous edible mushrooms distributed worldwide in terrestrial ecosystems, including deserts, as non-timber forest products.

With almost half a million people and more than six times as many sheep, Tasmania has a rich history of wool production.

An examination and evaluation of the problem of various forms of biodiversity loss.

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.

This book presents a detailed case study of ecological and cultural interactions between the people and their natural environment at Roviana Lagoon, Solomon Islands, a land of rich biodiversity.

This edited book brings out a comprehensive account of the faunal diversity in Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve which is part of the Sundaland Biodiversity hotspot.

With almost half a million people and more than six times as many sheep, Tasmania has a rich history of wool production.

Insects are the most interesting and diverse group of organisms on earth, many of which are useful as pollinators of crops and wild plants while others are useful as natural enemies keeping pestiferous insects in check.

This textbook provides basic quantitative models allowing researchers and decision makers to a) assess viability of threatened populations and evaluate the success of species reintroductions, b) estimate invasion abilities of alien species, c) evaluate the persistence of metapopulations subjected to habitat destruction and fragmentation, d) analyze policies and strategies for the sustainable harvesting of biological resources, and e) assess the course of human and nonhuman diseases and the possible containment measures.

The Invertebrate World of Australia's Subtropical Rainforests is a comprehensive review of Australia's Gondwanan rainforest invertebrate fauna, covering its taxonomy, distribution, biogeography, fossil history, plant community and insect-plant relationships.

This book invites snorkelers and divers on an educational visit to the most important ecosystems of the Mediterranean Sea.

Learn about species, environments, ecosystems and biodiversity in The Ecology Book.

In the past thirty years biodiversity has become one of the central organizing principles through which we understand the nonhuman environment.

Biodiversity has been a key concept in international conservation since the 1980s, yet historians have paid little attention to its origins.

This book includes description of main morphological characteristics of 435 species (including varieties and subspecies) belonging to 57 families and 233 genera of endemic and endangered plants of Hulun Buir Rangeland in China.

In an era of climate change, deforestation, melting ice caps, poisoned environments, and species loss, many people are turning to the power of the arts and humanities for sustainable solutions to global ecological problems.

Historical Ethnobiology presents a unique approach to analyzing human-nature interactions, using theoretical and methodological aspects to examine historical scientific knowledge.

This edited book cover over 200 mushrooms with detailed profiles of all the species.

Bees are flying insects of the order Hymenoptera closely related to wasps and ants.

Wild crop relatives are now playing a significant part in the elucidation and improvement of the genomes of their cultivated counterparts.

This book deals with the new concept of biodiversity offsets.

Revised and fully updated, this textbook provides a detailed yet accessible introduction to the key aspects of ecosystem services.

A wide range of crop genetic resources is vital for future food security.

Ecotones are dynamic over-lapping boundary areas where major terrestrial biomes meet.

Its wise and sensitive approach to working with local people will be relevant in situations throughout the world.

Protected areas spearhead our response to the rapidly accelerating biodiversity crisis.

Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species-the first catalogue of its kind-covers all living and fossil snakes described between 1758 and 2012, comprising 3,509 living and 274 extinct species allocated to 539 living and 112 extinct genera.

Does extinction have to be forever?