Applied ecology

Microalgae and cyanobacteria are a very diverse group of photosynthetic microorganisms with many applications.

This multidisciplinary volume comprehensively reviews our current knowledge of the effects of urban, industrial and agricultural pollution on the biology of shallow coastal marine lagoons.

Poised between soil and sky, forest canopies represent a critical point of exchange between the atmosphere and the earth, yet until recently, they remained a largely unexplored frontier.

This engaging volume explores the management of fire in one of the world’s most flammable landscapes: Australia’s tropical savannas, where on average 18% of the landscape is burned annually.

This book provides, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the fundamental roles that ecological interactions play in extinction processes, bringing to light an underground of hidden pathways leading to the same dark place: biodiversity loss.

This book explores interpretations of alienation from nature in relation to a broad range of environmental issues.

Adapting to a Changing Environment provides tools and a theoretical framework for governments and managers to understand and confront the consequences of climate change.

Worldwide concern in scientific, industrial, and governmental com- munities over traces of toxic chemicals in foodstuHs and in both abiotic and biotic environments has justified the present triwnvirate of specialized publications in this field: comprehensive reviews, rapidly published progress reports, and archival documentations.

This book will present information on Pantanal vegetation including an updated checklist of flora, useful plants, ecological aspects and some topics never published for this region, such as lichens.

The planet is currently experiencing a mass extinction event, with human and business activity being the root cause of species loss and habitat destruction.

For the millions who remain curious about the world around them, but gained little from science at school, this book offers a way forward.

A friendly 2007 guide to mathematical modelling for evolutionary and behavioural ecologists.

This book offers a comprehensive guide to the sustainable design of products, services, or related systems.

Plants form mutualistic association with various microorganisms, particularly in the rhizosphere region.

The second-longest European river after the Volga, the Danube is one of the world's most important rivers in terms of its geographical and historical significance.

Grasslands are among the largest ecosystems in the world and consequently are of great importance to mankind.

This popular book is the only field guide to all of California's 130 freshwater fish species, both native and introduced.

Originally published in 1990.

The human use of nature is a polarizing topic in India and across the globe, often perceived as contradictory to traditional exclusionary conservation.

Biodesign in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Deep Green investigates the potential of nature-based technology for shaping the evolution of contemporary architecture and design.

Inchworms, tiger moths, underwings, owlet moths, silkworms,sphinx moths, grass moths, and butterflies.

The landscape we see and live in is an important part or our everyday lives, be they urban or rural.

Worldwide development of agriculture and industry creates burgeoning demands on natural resources.

This book provides a systematic, interdisciplinary analysis of the conflicts, issues, and tensions associated with today's ecological transformation processes from an Environmental Humanities perspective.

This book explains how gender, as a power relationship, influences climate change related strategies, and explores the additional pressures that climate change brings to uneven gender relations.

Conventional tillage and burning crop residues has degraded the soil resource base and intensified soil degradation with concomitant decrease in crop production capacity.

This book explores the fascinating and complex lives of the honey badger, the African jackals (black-backed and side-striped), African golden wolves, and Eurasian golden jackals.

Bees are often thought of as yellow and black striped insects that live in hives and produce honey.

The explosion of public interest in the natural environment can, to a large extent, be attributed to greater public awareness of the impacts of global warming and climate change.

Scholarship on the right to water has proliferated in interesting and unexpected ways in recent years.

In this new and highly original textbook for a range of interdisciplinary courses and degree programmes focusing on marine and coastal resource management, readers are offered an introduction to the subject matter, a broad perspective and understanding, case study applications, and a reference source.

Can we re-imagine our relationship to the earth-using theviewpoints and texts of the last four millennia?

This completely updated edition gives the latest listings on conservation status for all known Australian amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.

This book describes how large-scale wastes can be used as a resource for making other materials.

The accurate identification of fish ‘ear-bones’, known as otoliths, is essential to determine the fish prey of marine and terrestrial predators.

Over the last two decades, exploration of the deep subsurface biosphere has developed into a major research area.

Gardening during times of crisis can have significant benefits to individuals and populations in terms of health, well-being, social and economic outcomes.

Makis Solomos explores the ecologies of music and sound, inspired by Felix Guattari, for whom environmental destruction caused by capitalism goes hand in hand with deteriorating ways of living and feeling, and for whom an ecosophical stance, combining various ecological registers, offers a glimpse of emancipation, a position strengthened today by intersectional approaches.

Explore a Major Component of Renewable Energy Introduction to Bioenergy takes a look at energy from biomass (thermal energy, power, liquid fuels, and biogas) and envisions a sustainable future fueled by renewable energy.

Rethinking Wilderness and the Wild: Conflict, Conservation and Co-existence examines the complexities surrounding the concept of wilderness.

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

Humanity is dependent on Nature to survive, yet our society largely acts as if this is not the case.

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

Nestled amidst rolling hills, Shillong, the Himalayan capital city of Meghalaya in India's northeast, faces a growing challenge of water scarcity.

Game theory has revolutionized the study of animal behavior.

This book is unique in providing a global overview of alpine (high mountain) habitats that occur above the natural (cold-limited) tree line, describing the factors that have shaped them over both ecological and evolutionary timescales.

New and Improved Global Edition: Three-Volume SetA ready reference addressing a multitude of soil and soil management concerns, the highly anticipated and widely expanded third edition of Encyclopedia of Soil Science now spans three volumes and covers ground on a global scale.

A practical book for professionals who rely on water quality data for decision making, this book is based on three decades experience of three highly published water and watershed resource professionals.

As the growth of the worlds population requires the continued search for residential space, the urbanization of natural lands is an inevitable process, but that process does not have to be one that is accomplished without regard for environmental quality.