Applied ecology

Questions why species are becoming extinct, and how we can protect the natural world on which we all depend.

Provides a comprehensive synthesis of a fundamental phenomenon, the species–area relationship, addressing theory, evidence and application.

Brings scientists, policy makers, land and water managers and citizen stakeholders together to resolve natural resource and environmental problems.

Explains how artificial intelligence methods can be used to aid conservation of wildlife, forests, coral reefs, rivers, and other natural resources.

Discusses the benefits and risks, as well as the economic and socio-political realities, of rewilding as a novel conservation tool.

This volume includes sources relating to a range of social and cultural contexts, including the proliferation of natural history crazes (ferns, aquaria, orchids, etc); debates about the social and environmental impacts of changing land use in town and country; debates about demographics, population, and resources inspired by Thomas Malthus; attempts to preserve landscapes (e.

Offers an interdisciplinary exploration of resilience in agriculture, and implications for producers seeking to adapt to change and uncertainty.

Presents different strategies for biological control along with their ecological bases, using many examples from a diversity of ecosystems.

Brings scientists, policy makers, land and water managers and citizen stakeholders together to resolve natural resource and environmental problems.

This book will help decision makers model nature-based solutions to the complex problem of sustainable development, locally and globally.

A comprehensive account of joint species distribution modelling, covering statistical analyses in light of modern community ecology theory.

Explains how artificial intelligence methods can be used to aid conservation of wildlife, forests, coral reefs, rivers, and other natural resources.

Without trace metals there would be no life, yet trace metals can eliminate life.

Presents the state-of-the-art of model-based integration of ecology and economics in the field of biodiversity conservation.

Discusses the benefits and risks, as well as the economic and socio-political realities, of rewilding as a novel conservation tool.

Presents the state-of-the-art of model-based integration of ecology and economics in the field of biodiversity conservation.

Presents different strategies for biological control along with their ecological bases, using many examples from a diversity of ecosystems.

A comprehensive guide to carbon inside Earth – its quantities, movements, forms, origins, changes over time and impact on planetary processes.

Offers an interdisciplinary exploration of resilience in agriculture, and implications for producers seeking to adapt to change and uncertainty.

A comprehensive guide to carbon inside Earth – its quantities, movements, forms, origins, changes over time and impact on planetary processes.

This book will help decision makers model nature-based solutions to the complex problem of sustainable development, locally and globally.

Questions why species are becoming extinct, and how we can protect the natural world on which we all depend.

Explains how innovation happens and which factors can help or hinder, by treating innovation as a systemic phenomenon, or ecosystem of players and processes.

Explains how satellite remote sensing informs and helps deliver successful conservation management through case studies, which highlight practitioner experience.

Explains how innovation happens and which factors can help or hinder, by treating innovation as a systemic phenomenon, or ecosystem of players and processes.

Provides a global analysis of policies to address deforestation, an important driver of climate change.

Explains how satellite remote sensing informs and helps deliver successful conservation management through case studies, which highlight practitioner experience.

This book clearly describes the many applications of graph theory to ecological questions, providing instruction and encouragement to researchers.

This book introduces key stages of niche-based habitat suitability model building, evaluation and prediction, featuring examples using R.

A crucial, timely synthesis of issues and solutions for the conservation of the world''s seas and marine life.

This book introduces key stages of niche-based habitat suitability model building, evaluation and prediction, featuring examples using R.

A crucial, timely synthesis of issues and solutions for the conservation of the world''s seas and marine life.

This book clearly describes the many applications of graph theory to ecological questions, providing instruction and encouragement to researchers.

Tests for repeated patterns in evolution of island plants, which together comprise an ''island syndrome'' analogous to animals.

Tests for repeated patterns in evolution of island plants, which together comprise an ''island syndrome'' analogous to animals.

This book presents a practical, holistic research framework to help us both understand our past and build an appealing human future.

This book presents a practical, holistic research framework to help us both understand our past and build an appealing human future.

Leading researchers present current methodological approaches and future directions for a less anthropocentric study of animal cognition.

Leading researchers present current methodological approaches and future directions for a less anthropocentric study of animal cognition.

This book provides a lucid, rigorous and critical account of the commons, its history and its political potentialities as well as its limitations and ambiguities.

The first volume devoted to anthropogenic effects on interactions between ants and flowering plants, considered major parts of terrestrial ecosystems.

This book focuses on global efforts to protect plant diversity and the role that botanic gardens play in conserving plant species.

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

The first volume devoted to anthropogenic effects on interactions between ants and flowering plants, considered major parts of terrestrial ecosystems.

This book focuses on global efforts to protect plant diversity and the role that botanic gardens play in conserving plant species.

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

A comprehensive account of how abiotic and biotic interactions shape patterns of coastal marine biodiversity and ecosystem processes globally.

With the introduction of Industry 4.

Research papers from the end of twentieth-century have been assembled, alongside expert commentary, for the first collected volume on complexity-based ecology.

Presents solutions to turn conflict into tolerance and coexistence, with an emphasis on the human dimensions of human-wildlife interactions.