Applied ecology

The Mekong Basin is home to some 70 million people, for whom this great river is a source of livelihoods, the basis for their ecosystems and a foundation of their economies.

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

This book addresses the biological effects of the reasonably large number of classes of compounds that have been recognized as endocrine disrupters.

A balanced review of differing approaches based on remote sensing tools and methods to assess and monitor biodiversity, carbon and water cycles, and the energy balance of terrestrial ecosystem.

This book focuses on drosophila as an especially useful model organism for exploring questions of evolutionary biology in the full range of evolutionary studies: population genetics, ecology, ecological genetics, speciation, phylogenetics, genome evolution, molecular evolution, and development.

This book is an intellectual contribution of policy scientists and researchers from different academic institutions in different parts of the world.

Cinquante et un ans après la signature de la CITES, 1973 - 2024, le trafic international des espèces de faune et de flore sauvages continue de prendre des proportions inquiétantes.

This book describes a fauna of global conservation concern and provides a framework for researchers to begin to test hypotheses regarding the evolution of freshwater mussels in Central America.

Providing a synthesis of basic and applied research, The Everglades, Florida Bay, and Coral Reefs of the Florida Keys: An Ecosystem Sourcebook takes an encyclopedic look at how to study and manage ecosystems connected by surface and subsurface water movements.

The first single, comprehensive source for locating North American public prairies, grasslands, and savannas, Prairie Directory of North America is a guide unlike any other.

This benchmark publication assembles information on the current and anticipated effects of climate change on animal health.

This book is about understanding challenges in managing our environment and ensuring sustainability of this planet.

Farmers' Rights are essential for maintaining crop genetic diversity, which is the basis of all food and agricultural production in the world.

This book is about environmental defenders and the violence they face while seeking to protect their land and the environment.

The 21st century has been called the "e;century of the city.

Globally, local and indigenous approaches to conserving biodiversity, crop improvement, and managing precious natural resources are under threat.

Practical Conservation Biology covers the complete array of topics that are central to conservation biology and natural resource management, thus providing the essential framework for under-graduate and post-graduate courses in these subject areas.

Climate and Energy Politics in Poland: Debating Carbon Dioxide and Shale Gas presents a new, object-oriented perspective on the challenge faced by Poland, the largest post-socialist EU member state from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), to produce knowledge about its energy system in the context of climate change.

Scientists and consultants need to estimate and map properties of the terrestrial environment.

Presenting a thorough examination of the sacred forests of Asia, this volume engages with dynamic new scholarly dialogues on the nature of sacred space, place, landscape, and ecology in the context of the sharply contested ideas of the Anthropocene.

Alaska in the early 1950s was one of the world's last great undeveloped areas.

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

This book examines the bioeconomy concept, analysing the opportunities it can generate, the constraints and the potential benefits for society.

The greater Perth coast is a biodiverse and ecologically vulnerable region, with its unique native plant species threatened by clearing, invasive species, fire and climate change.

This book studies R.

It is only recently that the immense economic value of pollination to agriculture has been appreciated.

There is much we can learn about conservation from native peoples, says Gene Anderson.

An examination and evaluation of the problem of various forms of biodiversity loss.

From the first appearance of the term in law in the Clean Water Act of 1972 (US), ecological integrity has been debated by a wide range of researchers, including biologists, ecologists, philosophers, legal scholars, doctors and epidemiologists, whose joint interest was the study and understanding of ecological/biological integrity from various standpoints and disciplines.

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Arising out of human-environment interaction, sustainability problems resist disciplinary categories and simple solutions.

This highly original work demonstrates the fundamental role of customary law for the realization of Indigenous peoples' human rights and for sound national and international legal governance.

Natural resource managers face a complex decision-making environment characterized by the potential occurrence of rapid and abrupt ecological change.

Food is increasingly traded internationally, thereby transforming the organization of food production and consumption globally and influencing most food-related practices.

Since becoming formally established with an international academic society in the late 1980s, ecological economics has advanced understanding of the interactions between social and biophysical reality.

Madagascar is one of the most biologically diverse places on the planet, the result of 160 million years of isolation from the African mainland.

This book explores a new approach to understanding the evolution of mind and consciousness by examining the perceptual abilities of animals and the way they experience their world.

Stream Ecology: Structure and Function of Running Waters is designed to serve as a textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, and as a reference source for specialists in stream ecology and related fields.

Enlarged, enhanced and internationalized edition of the first restoration ecology textbook to be published, with foreword by Dr.

This volume provides an analytical and facts-based overview on the progress achieved in water security in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region over during the last decade, and its links to regional development, food security and human well-being.

Mineral Beneficiation or ore dressing of run-of-mine ore is an upgrading process to achieve uniform quality, size and maximum tenor ore through the removal of less valuable material.

In recent years, citizen science has emerged as a powerful new concept to enable the general public, students, and volunteers to become involved in scientific research.

An interactive way to foster appreciation and understanding of our planet's endangered species!

Environmental law and governance are the cornerstones of global efforts to conserve the environment, protect resources and ensure fair and equitable outcomes for all of the planet's inhabitants.

An essential guide to the applications and usage of the diffusive gradients in thin-films (DGT) technique for students and professionals.

The landscapes of the Middle East have captured our imaginations throughout history.

That residues of pesticide and other contaminants in the total environment are of concern to everyone everywhere is attested by the reception accorded previous volumes of "e;Residue Reviews"e; and by the gratifying enthusiasm, sincerity, and efforts shown by all the in- dividuals from whom manuscripts have been solicited.

A How-To Guide for Conducting Common Fisheries-Related Analyses in RIntroductory Fisheries Analyses with R provides detailed instructions on performing basic fisheries stock assessment analyses in the R environment.

The lichen genus Cladonia includes some of the very common ground cover plants in the United States and Canada.

Sometimes by accident and sometimes on purpose, humans have transported plants and animals to new habitats around the world.