Biodiversity

With all of the environmental and social problems confronting our food systems today, it is apparent that none of the strategies we have relied on in the pasthigher-yielding varieties, increased irrigation, inorganic fertilizers, pest damage reductioncan be counted on to come to the rescue.

Butterflyfishes (family Chaetodontidae) are a highly conspicuous component of fish fauna on coral reefs throughout the world.

The ecological sciences are a diverse array of major scientific disciplines.

Whether their populations are perceived as too large, just right, too small or non-existent, animal numbers matter to the humans with whom they share environments.

Advances in genome-scale DNA sequencing technologies have revolutionized genetic research on ancient organisms, extinct species, and past environments.

Tourism has an essential role in terms of contributing to the financial sustainability of protected areas.

This Handbook gives a comprehensive, international and cutting-edge overview of Sustainable Development.

The success of the first volume of The Biology of Sea Turtles revealed a need for broad but comprehensive reviews of major recent advances in sea turtle biology.

Lichens are fascinating and beautiful organisms able to colonise a vast range of habitats, including seemingly impossible places such as bare icy mountain tops and sun-scorched coastal rocks.

Rapid growth of the global economy has accelerated the degradation of the Earth's most important asset: the environment.

This book offers a unique perspective on Zionism.

CHOICE Highly recommended 2020Insects are key components of life on our planet, and their presence is essential for maintaining balanced terrestrial ecosystems.

Authored by world-class scientists and scholars, The Handbook of Natural Resources, Second Edition, is an excellent reference for understanding the consequences of changing natural resources to the degradation of ecological integrity and the sustainability of life.

Bees are often thought of as yellow and black striped insects that live in hives and produce honey.

The tropics and subtropics are home to about 75% of the global human population.

This book demonstrates how mathematical models constructed in system dynamics modelling platforms, such as Vensim, can be used for long-term management of environmental change.

Groupers are fascinating charismatic fishes commonly found in reef habitats around the world that sustain a global multimillionaire fishery.

Nature is all around us, in the beautiful but also in the unappealing and functional, and from the awe-inspiring to the mundane.

Biodiversity research and prospecting are long-standing activities taking place in a new legal and ethical environment.

This book explores the political ecology of agrofuels as an encompassing socio-spatial transformation process consisting of a series of changing contexts, political reconfigurations, and the restructuring of social and labour relations.

Originally published in 1981 Historical Plant Geography is an introductory treatment of historical plant geography and stresses the basic theoretical frame of the subject.

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The book presents an analysis of the ecological, economic and social threats posed by the introduction and spread of non-native species.

Sustainable commercial fishing, species conservation, and bycatch are contentious topics.

This volume unravels the underlying power relations that are masked in the present discourse of ecological sustainability and conflicts over natural resources.

Forest landscape restoration (FLR) is a planned process that aims to regain ecological integrity and enhance human wellbeing in deforested or degraded landscapes.

This entirely updated second edition provides an overview on the biology, ecology and biodiversity of extremophiles.

This book is volume 33 of the yearbook seriesPalaeoecology of Africa presenting the outcome of atribute conference to the internationally recognized South African researcher and palynologist Professor Louis Scott.

This book is the result of the first global conference on mountain biodiversity, and is a contribution to the International Year of Mountains, 2002.

This book provides a systematic review of nature-based solutions and their potential to address current environmental challenges.

This book aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the current challenges in one of the most biodiverse regions in the world.

Humans pose an unprecedented threat to life in all its great diversity of forms.

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

The Earth Charter is a declaration of fundamental ethical principles for building a just, sustainable and peaceful global society, with ecological integrity as a major theme.

The volcanic and oceanic nature of the Canary Islands, its rich plant biodiversity and high rate of endemism, as well as the relict character of some of its plant communities make it a territory of great biological interest.

Volume 9 is part of a multicompendium Edible Medicinal and Non-Medicinal Plants, on plants with edible modified stems, roots and bulbs from Acanthaceae to Zygophyllaceae (tabular) and 32 selected species in Alismataceae, Amaryllidaceae, Apiaceae, Araceae, Araliaceae, Asparagaceae, Asteraceae, Basellaceae, Brassicaceae and Campanulaceae in detail.

The book brings to light the most recent findings on the biogeography, biodiversity, host plant induction and natural history of gall inducing insects in the Neotropical region.

Ecological and biodiversity-based monitoring has been marked by an appalling lack of effectiveness and lack of success in Australia for more than 40 years, despite the billions of dollars that are invested in biodiversity conservation annually.

The main thrust of this book is focused on addressing the various interrelated processes, analysis and activities bearing upon sound river management.

Wetland planting can bring back biodiversity, reduce the impact of drought and flood, improve water quality and conserve beauty in a mismanaged landscape.

This book presents a critical and integrated review of lizards from Patagonia.

Out-migration might decrease the pressure of population on the environment, but what happens to the communities that manage the local environment when they are weakened by the absence of their members?

The rapidly increasing number of threatened flora and fauna species worldwide is one of the chief problems confronting environmental professionals today.

This book presents valuable and recent lessons learned regarding the links between natural resources management, from a Socio-Ecological perspective, and the biodiversity conservation in Mexico.

Problems of insect enumeration and assessment of needs are addressed in the contexts of rapid and substantial losses and changes to all key Australian terrestrial and freshwater environments and promoting awarenesss of the importance of insects.

This book is an overview considering yeast and fermentation.

Authored by world-class scientists and scholars, The Handbook of Natural Resources, Second Edition, is an excellent reference for understanding the consequences of changing natural resources to the degradation of ecological integrity and the sustainability of life.

'Jake Fiennes is changing the face of farming in Britain.

The conservation of Earth's forest ecosystems is one of the great environmental challenges facing humanity in the 21st century.

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