Biodiversity

This book examines how different countries across Southeast Asia and Latin America respond to the emergence and expansion of the lucrative, yet controversial palm oil industry, paying attention to how national policy and governance regimes are shaping this global industry.

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).

Metacommunity ecology links smaller-scale processes that have been the provenance of population and community ecology-such as birth-death processes, species interactions, selection, and stochasticity-with larger-scale issues such as dispersal and habitat heterogeneity.

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.

Wetlands are vital and valuable resources, both as rich and unique wildlife habitats, and for the functions they fulfil - providing flood and sediment control and coastal protection, as carbon sinks and pollution buffers, for their role in storing and recycling nutrients, as well as for their recreational value.

This reference book provides advanced knowledge on sustainable biogenic waste management.

Exploring the dramatic growth and changes in the field of vermicomposting since 1988, this comprehensive review assesses the advancements made in government-funded projects in the U.

Uganda has extensive protected areas and iconic wildlife (including mountain gorillas), which exist within a complex social and political environment.

Despite carefully constructed conservation interventions, deforestation in Indonesia is not being stopped.

The Earth's biodiversity-the rich variety of life on our planet-is disappearing at an alarming rate.

The Aboriginal Story of Burke and Wills is the first major study of Aboriginal associations with the Burke and Wills expedition of 1860–61.

Farming and the Fate of Wild Nature addresses an urgent and complex issue facing communities and cultures throughout the world: the need for heightened land stewardship and conservation in an era of diminishing natural resources.

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

This book provides the first comprehensive assessment of ecosystem services (ES) for the territory of the Slovak Republic.

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

A biophysicist reveals the hidden unity behind nature's breathtaking complexityThe form and function of a sprinting cheetah are quite unlike those of a rooted tree.

Focusing on ethnography and interviews with subsistence food producers, this book explores the resilience, innovation and creativity taking place in subsistence agriculture in America.

At the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, the nations of the world adopted the convention on Biological Diversity.

Britain's neglect of fungi as table delicacies has perhaps been responsible for our surprising ignorance of the natural history of such fascinating plants.

The world is warming up rapidly and this change is most noticeable in mountains with already observable consequences on flora and fauna.

This book is a celebration of the humble gudgeon, the angler's favourite 'tiddler'.

This book focuses on upland agricultural systems and applies a multiple capitals approach to explain what they can provide at a time when many are struggling to survive.

The Bahia Blanca Estuary is one of the largest coastal systems in Atlantic South America.

This edited volume addresses the critical need to balance biodiversity preservation with ensuring a nutritious and ample food supply for the growing global population.

Debate about how best to ensure the preservation of agricultural biodiversity is caught in a counter-productive polemic between proponents and critics of market-based instruments and agricultural modernisation.

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 river red gum has the most widespread natural distribution of Eucalyptus in Australia, forming extensive forests and woodlands in south-eastern Australia and providing the structural and functional elements of important floodplain and wetland ecosystems.

The book examines concurrent green initiatives and their spillover effects on environmental conservation and management to reveal their impact on conservation effectiveness, drawing on a range of international case studies.

This new textbook provides an up-to-date and comprehensive introduction to both the policy background and contemporary governance of forests in the United States.

The Coastal Everglades presents a broad overview and synthesis of research on the coastal Everglades, a region that includes Everglades National Park, adjacent managed wetlands, and agricultural and urbanizing communities.

Das geheime Leben der Pilze: fesselnd, informativ und absolut verblüffend!

This reference book covers the ecological impact and biotechnological applications of diatoms.

People have been visiting and living in the Victorian Grampians, also known as Gariwerd, for thousands of generations.

Recent biodiversity studies, reported here for the first time, have shown that the molluscan fauna of the Gulf of Mexico is far richer and more complex than previously thought.

Ever since the concept of the "e;struggle for life"e; became the heart of Darwin's theory of evolution, biologists have studied the relevance of interactions for the natural history and evolution of organisms.

This book provides insight into the hydrology, ecosystem services and management of water resources in the Parana River basin, including the importance of water to the socio-economic development of the countries within the watershed.

Animal welfare has long been recognised as central to the role of the veterinary professional, but this is increasingly aligned with the welfare of humans and the broader environment in which we co-exist.

A crucial reference/textbook that provides a wide spectrum of information in one easily understandable sourceThe essence of agroecology lies in harnessing and harmonizing the forces of nature for productive purpose.

Across the world, ecosystems are for sale.

Marine systems face a multitude of anthropogenic stressors such as climate change, recreational and commercial fishing, aquaculture practices, pollution, and coastal urbanization.

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 brings out the most comprehensive and up-to-date information on the taxonomy, biodiversity, and ecology of climbers in India.

This book presents current meta-ecosystem models and their derivation from classical ecosystem and metapopulation theories.

Natur pur – Einblicke in das Leben im und mit dem MoorDas Moor: schmatzende, nasse Sumpflandschaften, wo Vögel nisten, Schilfpflanzen, Torfmoose und Gräser wachsen.

This reference book collates traditional and modern applications of remote sensing in aquatic ecosystem monitoring.

This book probes the ethical, practical, and sociopolitical implications of leveraging innovative and disruptive means to address the world's various environmental crises.

This interdisciplinary and accessible book will help environmentalists to make stronger arguments in favor of conserving biodiversity.