Biodiversity

The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) study is a major international initiative drawing attention to local, national and global economic benefits of biodiversity, to highlight the growing costs of biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation, the benefits of investing in natural capital, and to draw together expertise from the fields of science, economics and policy to enable practical actions.

Omnipresent in virtually all terrestrial ecosystems and of undisputed ecological and economical importance, the study of social insects is an area that continues to attract a vast number of researchers.

For more than 40 years, mothers have depended on the wisdomand warmth of Nursing Your Baby.

Freshwater ecosystems have the greatest species diversity per unit area and many endangered species.

Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review remains one of the most cited sources in marine science and oceanography.

Forest Pattern and Ecological Process is a major synthesis of 25 years of intensive research about the montane ash forests of Victoria, which support the world's tallest flowering plants and several of Australia's most high profile threatened and/or endangered species.

There are fewer grey seals in the world than endangered African elephants, but the British Isles host almost half of this global population.

Shortlisted for the 2018 TWS Wildlife Publication Awards in the edited book categoryThe various species of new world blackbirds, often intermingled in large foraging flocks and nighttime roosts, collectively number in the hundreds of millions and are a dominant component of the natural and agricultural avifauna in North America today.

The Action Plan for Australian Birds 2020 is the most comprehensive review of the status of Australia's avifauna ever attempted.

This new edition offers a timely update to the leading textbook dedicated to all aspects of U.

Systemic change is required to move to a circular economy (CE) model which can meet the demands of a growing population in a manner that is decoupled from resource use and waste generation.

With contributors drawn from a broad range of disciplines, The Modern Period Room brings together a carefully selected collection of essays to consider the interiors of the modern era and their more recent reconstructions from a variety of different viewpoints.

Indigenous knowledge that embraces ornithology takes in whole social dimensions that are inter-linked with environmental ethos, conservation and management for sustainability.

This study, based on a literature review and simulations, shows the efficiency of cover crops at catching nitrate in most agriculture situations.

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

China covers about 7% of the earth's land surface and encompasses a hugely diverse range of habitats.

Recent Advances in Polyphenol Research Volume 2 Edited by Santos-Buelga, Escribano-Bailon and Lattanzio Plant phenolics are secondary metabolites that constitute one of the most common and widespread groups of substances in plants.

This book provides insights into various aspects of medicinal plant-associated microbes, known to be a unique source of biological active compounds, including their biotechnological uses and their potential in pharmaceutical, agricultural and industrial applications.

This volume gathers case studies on plant diversity from selected, representative mountain systems of Italy (Mediterranean and temperate zones), while also addressing the biodiversity of avian fauna.

This book provides keys, descriptions and illustrations for about 850 species of liverworts and hornworts, in 148 genera and 47 families, of Colombia and Ecuador.

Using theory, applications, and examples of inferences, Niche Modeling: Predictions from Statistical Distributions demonstrates how to conduct and evaluate niche modeling projects in any area of application.

There is a growing consensus in the human factors/ergonomics community that human factors research has had little impact on significant applied problems.

This book updates taxonomy information of orchids in China.

From time immemorial, firewood has been a very important source of energy for mankind.

This book performs a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) analysis to examine the current food crisis and how it relates to the use of crops for energy.

Post-industrial urban spaces typically include abandoned factories, disused rail lines, old pits and quarries, and de-commissioned landfills.

The Millennium Development Goals, adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000, are the world's targets for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015 income poverty, hunger, disease, exclusion, lack of infrastructure and shelter while promoting gender equality, education, health and environmental sustainability.

This book compiles the main findings of the multidisciplinary long-term research program developed in the continental margin of one of the more productive and unknown areas of the world oceans, Northwest Africa.

The world relies on very few crop and animal species for agriculture and to supply its food needs.

With the world's economies impacted by coronavirus, billions are feeling social, environmental, and economic injustices.

This book investigates the introduction of invasive species and their behavior in oceanic islands.

In Animals as Biotechnology sociologist Richard Twine places the question of human/animal relations at the heart of sustainability and climate change debates.

Protected areas (PAs) contain biodiversity and ecosystems of high conservation value.

Food and the global agricultural system has become one of the defining public concerns of the twenty-first century.

Aquaculture is increasingly complementing global fisheries and is relevant to ocean and freshwater health, biodiversity and food security, as well as coastal management, tourism and natural heritage.

The cult of performance leads our society to emphasise the values of success and continuous optimisation in all areas.

Fruit and Nut Crops: A Treasure Trove of Diversity and ResilienceDive into the fascinating world of fruit and nut crops in this comprehensive volume.

This book focuses on the regional political ecologies (RPEs) of environmental conflicts in India.

Up to 20 percent of species may be extinct by 2030.

This illustrated introduction to Central American Chironomidae offers extensive photographic material, as well as detailed morphological and ecological descriptions of chironomid subfossils found in Central American lake sediments.

How do we promote global economic development, while simultaneously preserving local biological and cultural diversity?

For the first time in a single volume, this book brings together more than 140 of the best walks, tracks or trails in New South Wales, which can be walked by the moderately fit individual.

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.

Mining in Ecologically Sensitive Landscapes explores the interface between geology and botany, and mining and conservation.

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

The volume on oilseed crops is developed as a part of a series on "e;Handbook of Agrobiodiversity: Conservation and Use of Plant Genetic Resources"e;.

This richly illustrated book presents the diversity and natural history of sea snail groups.

This book delivers stimulating input for a broad range of researchers, from geographers and ecologists to psychologists interested in spatial perception and physicists researching in complex systems.

The capacity of humans to destroy their environment is playing out like a Greek tragedy in the Mediterranean Sea.

In 1992, at the Earth Summit in Rio, the United Nations adopted the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to agree international measures aimed at preserving the vital ecosystems and biological resources on which we all depend.