Biodiversity

Taking a broad and innovative informational approach, Sustainable Agriculture and New Biotechnologies is the first book to apply omic technologies to address issues related to understanding and improving agricultural sustainability in the food production process.

Vegetation, Boden und Klima sind die wichtigsten Komponenten ökologischer Systeme.

Large carnivores include iconic species such as bears, wolves and big cats.

Comprising a substantial part of living biomass on earth, ants are integral to the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems.

An important prerequisite for successful conservation is a good understanding of what we seek to conserve.

Living Shorelines: The Science and Management of Nature-based Coastal Protection compiles, synthesizes and interprets the current state of the knowledge on the science and practice of nature-based shoreline protection.

This book presents a broad view of the ecology and behavior of aquatic insects, raising awareness of this conspicuous and yet little known fauna that inhabits inland waterbodies such as rivers, lakes and streams, and is particularly abundant and diverse in tropical 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.

Originally published in 1984 Nature's Ideological Language examines the common ideological roots of environmental reclamation and nature preservation.

Population and evolutionary genetics have been quickly developing ?

This book reexamines current knowledge on the evolution, ecology, and conservation biology of both New World vultures (Cathartidae) and Old World vultures (Accipitridae) and seeks answers to past and present regional extinctions, colorizations, and conservation questions.

The Handbook of Australasian Biogeography is the most comprehensive overview of the biogeography of Australasian plants, fungi and animal taxa in a single volume.

The water hyacinth is a disruptive factor in aquatic ecosystem management and ecosystem services, and causes problems in fisheries, transportation waterways, irrigation, hydropower generation, and water resources.

The environment is an all-encompassing component of the ecosystem of "e;Blue planet - the earth"e;, made up of the hydrosphere, atmosphere and lithosphere.

Insects have evolved very unique and interesting tactics using chemical signals to survive.

This novel book bridges the gap between the energetic and species approaches to studying food webs, addressing many important topics in ecology.

Meeting the food requirements of an ever-increasing population is a pressing challenge for every country around the globe.

Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region is exceptionally biodiverse.

This substantially updated new edition reflects the growing recognition that large areas of forests are degraded globally.

Tracking Animal Migration with Stable Isotopes, Second Edition, provides a complete introduction to new and powerful isotopic tools and applications that track animal migration, reviewing where isotope tracers fit in the modern toolbox of tracking methods.

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This book provides the first contemporary assessment of area-based conservation and its implications for nature and society.

Ecological indicators and surrogates are used widely by resource managers to monitor and understand complex biota and ecosystem processes.

An eagerly anticipated addition to the New Naturalist series.

All over the world, sustainable river basin management is a leading principle of policy plans and legal instruments for water management (e.

Based on work by the Miombo Network in southern Africa, this book helps decision-makers and general readers alike improve their understanding of the socio-ecology of the Miombo woodlands across southern Africa.

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

Combining a journalist's view of major trials with a political-legal analysis, this text gives a picture of the politics of justice in Russia.

Mossy greens, conker browns, cream, chocolate and deepest black; add stripes, swirls and splotches and you have some of the most striking wildlife Britain has to offer.

This book is about understanding challenges in managing our environment and ensuring sustainability of this planet.

The crucible of innovation in wildlife and habitat conservation is in southern Africa where it has co-evolved with decolonization, political transformation and the rise of development, ownership, management and livelihood debates.

This text arose from a study originally undertaken for the Department of Energy to characterize the principal safety features of light water reactors of western design.

West Southwest: Vertebrate Life in Southern California celebrates an amazingly diverse fauna with description, evolutionary background, geographic insight, and ecological detail.

Understand sustainable development from economic, ecological, and social perspectivesAs world population continues to increase, the need grows for a safe, sustainable supply of food.

Currently 868 million people are undernourished and 195 million children under five years of age are stunted.

Conservation genetics focuses on understanding the role and requirement of genetic variation for population persistence.

Modern Fisheries Engineering: Realizing a Healthy and Sustainable Marine Ecosystem is a compendium of the latest and most cutting-edge information on the diversity of technical aspects associated with Fisheries Engineering.

Vegetation, soil and climate are the most important components of ecological systems.

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

For at least half a century since the emergence of Country Parks and Forest Parks, countryside services have provided leisure, tourism, conservation, restoration and regeneration across Britain.

This book reviews and summarizes the studies on the fish diversity of Japan.

This highly original work demonstrates the fundamental role of customary law for the realization of Indigenous peoples' human rights and for sound national and international legal governance.

Two Centuries of Darwin is the outgrowth of an Arthur M.

Biology Trending is a truly innovative introductory biology text.

This comprehensive volume gathers foremost experts on the coral reefs of Cuba who represent a spectrum of disciplines, including biology, conservation ecology, economics and geology.

Degrowth is a rejection of the illusion of growth and a call to repoliticize the public debate colonized by the idiom of economism.

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

Great uncertainty typically surrounds decisions and management actions in the conservation of biodiversity and natural resource management, and yet there are risks of serious and irreversible harm for both biodiversity and the humans that rely on it.

Ecosystem services can be broadly defined as the aspects of ecosystems that provide benefits to people.