Applied ecology

This book presents modern Bayesian analysis in a format that is accessible to researchers in the fields of ecology, wildlife biology, and natural resource management.

Based on graph theory studies this book seeks to understand how tropical species interact with each other and how these interactions are affected by perturbations in some of the most species-rich habitats on earth.

This book introduces the concept of soil security and its five dimensions: Capability, Capital, Condition, Connectivity and Codification.

This book summarizes the evolution of carnivorous mammals in the Cenozoic of South America.

The rapid demise of coral reefs worldwide has spurred efforts to develop innovative conservation and restoration methods.

This volume synthesizes and analyzes thirty years of hydrological research in the Danum Valley Conservation Area, a lowland dipterocarp rainforest in Sabah, Malaysia.

This book takes readers on a journey through the history of water in the Coahuila desert.

This book examines the long-term fate of invasive species by detailing examples of invaders from different zoological and botanical taxa from various places around the world.

This book provides updated information on this intriguing and exciting group of insects: Neotropical Social Wasps.

This book, as a part of a series of CERES publications, provides a multi-regional and cross-sectoral analysis of food and water security, especially in the era of climate risks, biodiversity loss, pressure on scarce resources, especially land and water, increasing global population, and changing dietary preferences.

The book contains detailed descriptions of the unique desert environment with particular emphasis on vegetation and survival strategies of plants.

This book presents valuable and recent lessons learned regarding the links between natural resources management, from a Socio-Ecological perspective, and the biodiversity conservation in Mexico.

The book presents an analysis of the ecological, economic and social threats posed by the introduction and spread of non-native species.

This book provides essential information on 12 cockroach assemblages with more than a thousand specimens analyzed and investigates the Jurassic site in Bakhar, Mongolia, as one of the most diverse fossil insect sites worldwide.

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.

Problems of insect enumeration and assessment of needs are addressed in the contexts of rapid and substantial losses and changes to all key Australian terrestrial and freshwater environments and promoting awarenesss of the importance of insects.

This book integrates a variety of issues such as regional settings of productivity and nutrient cycling; plankton of coastal and shelf systems; plankton, climate change and human-induced changes; harmful algae and their impacts; and gelatinous zooplankton.

This book provides details on of the utility of hyperspectral remote sensing - NASA/AVIRIS in nearshore water quality issues of NY/NJ.

The book is based on results from the Russian expedition in the region of the Antarctic Peninsula and Powell Basin in the northern part of the Weddell Sea, as well as on the review of earlier research in the region.

The book provides a comprehensive account of a tropical lake, Alchichica, considering that tropical limnology is by far less known and well-understood than temperate.

Of the world's seven continents, Asia is the largest.

There has been growing academic interest in local food plants.

This book argues that sustainable development, based on sustained growth, has led us to an impasse.

This book provides comprehensive information on the rapidly developing field of urban horticulture for sustainable use of land resources and creating a better environment.

This book focuses on the worldwide threats to mangrove forests and the management solutions currently being used to counteract those hazards.

This book provides a conceptually organized framework to understand the phenomenon of biological invasions at the Anthropocene global scale.

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

Despite their rich fossil history, there are only four surviving species of sirenians or sea cows, the only fully aquatic herbivorous mammals.

This book presents the main drivers of benthic structure and processes in estuaries from the 8,000 km-Brazilian coast, assesses the influence of natural and human disturbance, and discusses their ecological importance and management needs.

This book covers the landscape, geography and environment of the Sierra Nevada in Spain.

This book highlights classification patterns and underlying ecological drivers structuring the vegetation of selected indigenous subtropical forests in South Africa.

Of the world's seven continents, Asia is the largest.

Igapo forests are a common part of the Amazon whose ecosystems are critical to our shared human future.

This book gives the most detailed and comprehensive physico-geographical overview of the very unique country of Mongolia.

The book focuses on the interactions between international legal regimes related to biodiversity governance.

This book synthesises the historical trends of the lake fisheries, the lake ecology, biology and biodiversity, socio-economics, stock assessment, aquaculture, fish quality assurance, environmental quality and management of the fisheries resources.

This book presents extensive and new information on the Cenozoic marine and continental systems of one of the most important World Heritage sites of Southern South America: The Peninsula Valdes.

This book provides cutting-edge scientific idea and novel concepts on the ecosystem-based approach to fisheries management.

This book in the series "e;Sustainable Development and Biodiversity"e; contains peer-reviewed chapters from leading academicians and researchers around the world in the field of horticulture, plant taxonomy, plant biotechnology, genetics and related areas of biodiversity science centered on genetic diversity.

The purpose of this book is to show the essential and indispensable role of prokaryotes in the evolution of aliving world.

This volume focuses on the ethnobiology of southern Chile's Archipelago of Chiloe.

This book comprehensively describes essential research and projects on climate change and biodiversity.

This book focuses on the global threats to coastal environments from invasive, non-native species and examines how these alien biological species adversely alter landscapes and socioeconomic conditions as well as the psychological attitudes and perceptions of local inhabitants and tourists.

This book maps extreme temperature increase under dangerous climate change scenarios in Brazil and their impacts on four key sectors: agriculture, health, biodiversity and energy.

This book provides a wealth of information for all those involved in using ecological networks for biodiversity protection and environmental management, as well as their significance for planning.

The capacity of mixed forests to mitigate climate change effects by increasing resilience and lowering risks is pinpointed as an opportunity to highlight the role of tree species rich forests as part of complex socio-ecological systems.

This book critically analyzes the water quality in the lower Gangetic delta, and examines the environmental conditions and physical processes operating in this rich ecosystem.

Das Werk bietet die Grundlagen zur Lichtverschmutzung und ihrer Auswirkung auf Organismen.

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.