Applied ecology

This book focuses on the toxicity of various organic and inorganic pollutants, their eco-toxicological effects and eco-friendly approaches for remediation of environmental pollutants.

This fascinating book examines how microsites of spontaneous nature can reframe our understanding of the relationship between urban development and green space.

This book offers an in-depth description of different groups of microbes (i.

The book deals with the regulation of GMOs within the context of multiple principles and interests, including food security, sustainable development, and biodiversity.

With the expansion of human settlements and the environmental changes brought on by human activity and pollutants, toxicology and risk assessment of piscine species is becoming increasingly of interest to scientists involved in environmental research and connected disciplines.

India is exceptionally rich in biodiversity and is one of the 12 mega-diversity centers of the world The biodiversity hotspots include mainly the Eastern Ghats and North Eastern hills.

Reaching from interior Alaska across Canada to Labrador and Newfoundland, North America's boreal forest is the largest wilderness area left on the planet.

This book provides a general overview of the natural landscapes and vegetation types of the U.

Ethiopia is facing environmental and poverty challenges, and urgently needs effective management of its environmental resources.

Animals that must hunt and kill for at least part of their living are inherently interesting to many people and the role that carnivores play in biological communities attract interest from ecologists and conservation biologists.

San Diego Bay is a shallow estuary surrounded by a large population center.

Recognizing the increasing rate of species loss on a global scale and that neither pollution nor ecosystems respects political boundaries, cooperation on many different levels is required to conserve biodiversity.

This handbook focuses on the enormous literature applying statistical methodology and modelling to environmental and ecological processes.

Microorganisms are a good indicator of soil health.

Are you wishing you knew how to better communicate science, without having to read several hundred academic papers and books on the topic?

Australia's little known woodlands once covered huge areas of the eastern side of our continent.

This book provides complete, comprehensive, and broad subject-based reviews for students, teachers, researchers, policymakers, conservationists, and NGOs interested in the biodiversity and conservation of woody plants.

This book provides fascinating insights into the development and genetics of evolutionary processes on the basis of animals living in the dark, such as the Astyanax cave fish.

Climate Health Risks in Megacities: Sustainable Management and Strategic Planning courageously confronts the immense challenges of alleviating climate change and takes the initiative to layout an agenda that calls for action in the rapidly changing landscape of our global climate.

The relationship between feminism and ecology has grown in importance in recent years.

Japan's traditional and fragile satoyama landscape system was developed over centuries of human life on mountainous island terrain in a monsoon climate.

The shift of weather patterns has affected the incidence and prevalence of infectious diseases, including mycoses.

'Conservation in the 21st century needs to be different and this book is a good indicator of why.

With one volume each year, this series keeps scientists and advanced students informed of the latest developments and results in all areas of the plant sciences.

Urban and Industrial Water Conservation Methods provides comprehensive and practical information regarding water use for various different sectors and describes the most suitable conservation devices and techniques to reduce water consumption in urban environments.

Environmental Crime in the United States provides an introduction to the laws that govern environmental crime, how these laws are implemented and enforced, and the impact they have had since their passing in the twentieth century and their continued applications.

Most living carnivorous marsupials lead a secretive and solitary existence.

Since the first edition of this book published in 2005, there has been an immense amount of new and fascinating work on the history, ecology, and evolution of the Mediterranean flora.

This fascinating book examines how microsites of spontaneous nature can reframe our understanding of the relationship between urban development and green space.

The negative impacts of carbon emissions from human activities continue to dramatically reshape the environmental, political, and social landscape.

This book conceptualizes and synthesizes worldwide research on the quality of urban life.

The links between policy and practice in natural resource management are often depicted as a cyclical and rational process.

This new volume, Green Consumerism: The Behavior of New Age Consumer, provides a holistic understanding the importance of promoting green products and discusses consumers' buying intentions and decisions.

The thoroughly updated new edition of Gordon Bonan''s comprehensive textbook on terrestrial ecosystems and climate change, for advanced students and researchers.

This book demonstrates how the philosophy of science can enhance our understanding of sustainability and the practices we use to enact it.

Wild animals have been housed in zoos and aquariums for 5,000 years, fascinating people living in virtually every society.

Seedeiche stellen ein wichtiges Element des deutschen Küstenschutzes dar.

Originally published in 1986, Floods and Drainage advanced hazard - response theory as developed mainly by the White/Burton/Kates school of researchers in North America.

This book explores the practice of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) in the cities of the Global South.

Another volume in the popular New Naturalist series, this book covers all aspects of the plant life of Britain and Ireland.

Während in vielen Alpengebieten die traditionelle Kulturlandschaft durch Verstädterung und Industrialisierung in Gefahr ist, erobert sich auf der Südabdachung des Alpenbogens die Natur ganze Landschaften zurück.

As the human population grows from seven billion toward an inevitable nine or 10 billion, the demands on the limited supply of soils will grow and intensify.

In Big Ecology, David C.

Since the publication of the first edition of Food, Energy, and Society, the world's natural resources have become even more diminished due to the rapid expansion of the global human population.

A new and integrative analysis of the concept of ecosystem functioning, providing guidance for its application in conservation practice.

This book explores the ways in which the ecologically centred Indian philosophy of Jainism could introduce a new and non-western methodology to environmental politics, with the potential to help the green movement find new audiences and a new voice.

A proposal for a new chemicals strategy: that we work to develop safer alternatives to hazardous chemicals rather than focusing exclusively on controlling them.

Understanding Nature is a new kind of ecology textbook: a straightforward resource that teaches natural history and ecological content, and a way to instruct students that will nurture both Earth and self.

In Flammable Australia: Fire Regimes, Biodiversity and Ecosystems in a Changing World, leading researchers in fire ecology and management discuss how fire regimes have shaped and will continue to shape the distribution and abundance of Australia's highly diverse plants and animals.