Biodiversity

This book covers the landscape, geography and environment of the Sierra Nevada in Spain.

This book provides an in-depth exploration of microbial biodiversity and its crucial role in diverse biotechnological and industrial sectors.

Soy in South America constitutes one of the most spectacular booms of agro-industrial commodity production in the world.

A practical book for professionals who rely on water quality data for decision making, this book is based on three decades experience of three highly published water and watershed resource professionals.

This book presents the biodiversity of the Brazilian deep-sea and its many unique geological and biological features, as well as a review of its ecology, conservation, and future research needs.

This volume focuses on the broad pattern of increasing biodiversity through time, and recurrent events of minor and major ecosphere reorganization.

Biodiversity in Drylands, the first internationally based synthesis volume in the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network Series, unifies the concepts of species and landscape diversity with respect to deserts.

This latest volume in the New Naturalist series provides a comprehensive study of wildlife conservation in Britain, concentrating on events in the last 30 years.

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing human kind owing to the great uncertainty regarding future impacts, which affect all regions and many ecosystems.

Since the 1960s, the world's population has more than doubled and agricultural production per person has increased by a third.

This book provides in-depth information on Caatinga's geographical boundaries and ecological systems, including plants, insects, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.

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

Energy in Agroecosystems: A Tool for Assessing Sustainability is the first book on energy analysis that is up-to-date and specifically dedicated to agriculture.

Im Dreiländereck Schweiz–Italien–Österreich, inmitten der Alpen, hat die Wilderei Tradition.

Explore the captivating world of plankton with this hands-on guide, perfect for students, educators, hobbyists, and citizen scientists alike.

Contemporary climate change is a crucial management challenge for wildlife scientists, conservation biologists, and ecologists of the 21st century.

Marine and coastal resources provide millions of people with their livelihoods, such as fishing and tourism, and a range of critical additional 'ecosystem services', from biodiversity and culture to carbon storage and flood protection.

This volume set provides critical strategies for sustainable environmental management and biodiversity conservation in sub-Saharan Africa.

This book guides animal ecologists, biologists and wildlife and data managers through a step-by-step procedure to build their own advanced software platforms to manage and process wildlife tracking data.

This edited book highlights the potential and actual contributions of the sustainable management and utilization of indigenous biological resources and environment for the development of Africa.

The Rare or Threatened Australian Plants (ROTAP) list and associated coding system was developed and has been maintained by CSIRO since 1979, and lists taxa that are Presumed Extinct, Endangered, Vulnerable, Rare or Poorly Known at the national level.

This book explores how genetics and the new technologies in genomics have been used for conservation of plants and animals in the Neotropics.

Scientists and consultants need to estimate and map properties of the terrestrial environment.

This is the first book to describe the ecology of high latitude lakes, rivers and glacial environments in both the North and South polar regions.

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

Alaska in the early 1950s was one of the world's last great undeveloped areas.

You will find me where land meets sea .

Take a balanced look at ways to ensure food security and to work to erase hunger around the worldAgriculture is the most aggressively managed ecosystem.

Every year, the world's governments spend over US $700 billion subsidizing activities that harm the environment.

The book "e;Field Manual on Alien Flora of Kashmir Himalaya: Casual, Naturalised and Invasive Plants"e; has been prepared with two main goals in mind: (i) to promote awareness on the threats of invasive alien plants to biodiversity, ecology and environment, and (ii) to encourage research on, and management of, the alien plants.

This book focuses on the current and potential applications of microalgae and cyanobacteria in pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, and cosmeceuticals.

This volume was developed from the proceedings of a symposium held in Miami Beach, at the 189th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society.

By tracing the shadow of the epidemic over the last 30 years in Uganda and more broadly in the region, HIV and East Africa investigates the impact of the epidemic on people's lives and livelihoods, placing the epidemic within the context of the social, political and economic changes that have occurred over the last three decades.

This book examines the role of ethics and philosophy in biodiversity conservation.

This book develops the Sustainable Governance Approach and the principles of Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM).

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.

Since 1788, Australia has carried the yoke of four European seasons that make no sense in most parts of the country.

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the history, theory, and current practices of rewilding.

There is a rapidly growing interest in, and demand for, non-timber forest products (NTFPs).

This book provides an up-to-date outlook on the origin, evolution, structure, genomic organization, expression, regulation and transposition mechanism of retrotransposons in the plant genome and computational tools and algorithms to analyze retrotransposons across different species, and their use as genetic tools in crop breeding and improvement.

Managing today's lands is becoming an increasingly difficult task.

Environmental pollution is one of humanity's most pressing issues and will remain so for the foreseeable future.

This book discusses whether, and how, coexistence of people and endangered wildlife may be encouraged.

Natural resource governance is central to the outcomes of biodiversity conservation efforts and to patterns of economic development, particularly in resource-dependent rural communities.

A single-source reference on the biology of algae, the third edition of Algae: Anatomy, Biochemistry, and Biotechnology examines the most important taxa and structures for freshwater, marine, and terrestrial forms of algae.

Offers a global perspective on freshwater systems, highlighting how the conservation of crayfish will help protect ecosystem quality.

Exploring the relationship between mathematics and ecology, Spatial Ecology focuses on some important emerging challenges in the field.

This book is the first comprehensive account of large-scale ecosystems (biomes) of Southern Africa (defined as area south of the Kunene and Zambezi Rivers).