Biodiversity

Shallow subterranean habitats (SSHs) are areas of habitable space that are less than 10 m in depth from the surface.

There have been many well-publicized cases of invasive species of plants and animals, often introduced unintentionally but sometimes on purpose, causing widespread ecological havoc.

This book examines the legal protection and management of inland waters in Europe.

Australia's native land snails are an often-overlooked invertebrate group that forms a significant part of terrestrial biodiversity, with an estimated 2500 species present in Australia today.

Although the spatial dimension of ecosystem dynamics is now widely recognized, the specific mechanisms behind species patterning in space are still poorly understood and the corresponding theoretical framework is underdeveloped.

Bringing together a wealth of knowledge, the Handbook of Environmental Management, Second Edition, gives a comprehensive overview of environmental problems, their sources, their assessment, and their solutions.

This book won the 2023 The Wildlife Society Publication Award in the authored book category.

Given their roles in the ecosystem, raptors are widely considered the flagship or umbrella species among birds.

A land of extremes, the Northern Territory's arid deserts and monsoonal forests harbour some of Australia's smallest and the world's largest reptiles, as well as some of the world's most venomous snakes.

Conservation of biodiversity is a fundamental concern towards securing a sustainable future.

The importance of the Neotropics to the world's climate, biogeochemical cycling and biodiversity cannot be questioned.

Bringing together a wealth of knowledge, Environmental Management Handbook, Second Edition, gives a comprehensive overview of environmental problems, their sources, their assessment, and their solutions.

This text is a history of the world's oldest global conservation body - the World Conservation Union, established in 1948 as a forum for governments, non-governmental organizations and individual conservationists.

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

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.

Ecologists sometimes have a less-than-rigorous background in quantitative methods, yet research within this broad field is becoming increasingly mathematical.

This volume focuses on small mammal fossils from extinct Asian faunas of about 1 to 7 million years ago in North China.

Explore the conservation implications of recent armed conflicts in the tropical forest regions of Asia, Africa, and Latin America!

The extreme microbiomes are those microorganisms thriving under extreme conditions where no other living being will have any chance to survive.

True bugs (Heteroptera) are a diverse and complex group of plant-feeding and predatory insects important to food production, human health, the global economy and the environment.

This book is part of a two-volume set that offers an innovative approach towards developing methods and tools for assigning conservation categories of threatened taxa and their conservation strategies by way of different phases of eco-restoration in the context of freshwater river systems of tropical bio-geographic zones.

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

This book brings together a set of approaches to the study of individual-species ecology based on the analysis of spatial variations of abundance.

The current global environmental crisis is primarily the result of non-standardized parameters for environmental regulation, and is impacting e.

In this second edition of a bestseller, authors Paul H.

Focused on the mechanics of managing environmental data, this book provides guidelines on how to evaluate data requirements, assess tools and techniques, and implement an effective system.

Sound is almost always around us, anywhere, at any time, reaching our ears and stimulating our brains for better or worse.

"e;This is a lovely little book that could and should have a big impact.

"e;Diagnostics in Plant Breeding"e; is systematically organizing cutting-edge research reviews on the development and application of molecular tools for the prediction of plant performance.

During the Neogene - covering the last 23 Million years - the evolution of the environmental setting in Africa was subject to considerable changes.

The Great Lakes Basin in North America holds more than 20 percent of the world's fresh water.

This book highlights the importance of non-wood forest products (NWFPs) and their crucial role in sustaining the livelihood of rural and indigenous communities in Asia.

A summary of data on heavy metal accumulation, biomonitoring, toxicity and tolerance, metal contamination and pollution in the environment, and the importance of biodiversity for environmental monitoring and cleanup of metal-contaminated and polluted ecosystems.

This edited volume examines how to develop a planning and design process with green infrastructure that creates technical answers to the social and ecological function of the city's climate change adaptations demands.

Volume 2: Handbook of Spatio-Temporal Monitoring of Water Resources and Climate is aimed to describe the current state of knowledge and developments of geospatial technologies (Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems) for assessing and managing water resources under climate change.

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.

The past decade has seen a huge increase in the interest and attention directed toward sea ducks, the Mergini tribe.

The Great Lakes Basin in North America holds more than 20 percent of the world's fresh water.

The lives and futures of children and animals are linked to environmental challenges associated with the Anthropocene and the acceleration of human-caused extinctions.

This book spells out the theoretical structure, methodology and philosophy of the science of autecology.

In May 2004, the Alexander Koenig Zoological Research Museum hosted the Fifth International Symposium on Tropical Biology.

This volume provides comprehensive overviews of each terrestrial cetartiodactyl species' biology including palaeontology, physiology, genetics, reproduction and development, ecology, habitat and diet.

Environmental Principles and Policies uses environmental and social principles to analyse the latest wave of economic-based and market-orientated environmental policies currently being adopted around the world.

The book reflects the work in progress regarding the analysis of the costs of crop genetic resources conservation that has been conducted at various research insti- tutes over the last couple of years, including research conducted at ZEF and asso- ciated institutes.

Harmful algal blooms are one of the consequences of the human impact on aquatic ecosystems, particularly the process of eutrophication.

Originally published in 1989 Social Philosophy and Ecological Scarcity presents a systematic study of the implications of ecological scarcity for social philosophy.

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

Radiations, or Evolution in Action We have just celebrated the "e;Darwin Year"e; with the double anniversary of his 200th birthday and 150th year of his masterpiece, "e;On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection"e;.