Applied ecology

Marker-assisted plant breeding involves the application of molecular marker techniques and statistical and bioinformatics tools to achieve plant breeding objectives in a cost-effective and time-efficient manner.

The Political Ecology of Oil and Gas Activities in the Nigerian Aquatic Ecosystem reviews the current status of the ecosystems and economic implications of oil and gas development in Nigeria, a key oil-producing state.

Modelling is an important tool for understanding the complexity of forest ecosystems and the variety of interactions of ecosystem components, processes and values.

Modern Mountaineering on Alpine Rock, Snow, and IceIf your experience as a backpacker or rock climber is drawing you higher; if the cold, remote alpine environment calls you nearer, this book is for you.

The Handbook provides a supporting guide to key aspects and applications of landscape ecology to underpin its research and teaching.

Light pollution (light smog, light pollution or light emissions) is a fundamental problem in metropolises with effects on flora, fauna and people.

This book is part of a two-volume set that offers an innovative approach towards developing methods and tools for assigning conservation categories of threatened taxa and their conservation strategies by way of different phases of eco-restoration in the context of freshwater river systems of tropical bio-geographic zones.

This book provides a comprehensive environmental history of how Australia's rainforests developed, the influence of Aborigines and pioneers, farmers and loggers, and of efforts to protect rainforests, to help us better understand current issues and debates surrounding their conservation and use.

Whether their populations are perceived as too large, just right, too small or non-existent, animal numbers matter to the humans with whom they share environments.

Twenty years after the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) entered into force, the founding of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) in 2012 was the outcome of a long process of setting biodiversity issues at the top of the global environmental agenda.

This book discusses current knowledge and challenges with the ecological management and conservation of wetlands, with a focus on the East Kolkata Wetlands of India.

The Earth System may be the most complex entity that ever emerged in our galaxy and the contemporary process of 'globalisation' may be the most intricate dynamics that will ever pervade that entity: it is the interactive co-evolution of millions of technological, cultural, economic, social and environmental trends at all conceivable spatiotemporal scales that brings about the present fundamental transformation of humanity's way of life.

An account of the Flint water crisis shows that Flint''s struggle for safe and affordable water is part of a broader struggle for democracy.

The Handbook of New Zealand Mammals is the only definitive reference on all the land-breeding mammals recorded in the New Zealand region (including the New Zealand sector of Antarctica).

This book provides an up-to-date outlook on the origin, evolution, structure, genomic organization, expression, regulation and transposition mechanism of retrotransposons in the plant genome and computational tools and algorithms to analyze retrotransposons across different species, and their use as genetic tools in crop breeding and improvement.

This unique textbook presents an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of marine studies, exploring the dynamic relationship between people and the marine environment.

This book provides compelling new insights into how cities are attempting to address sustainability challenges via major applications of geospatial technology in an urban area.

Anyone who attempts to study crustaceans soon realizes that there are many science fields involved.

Taking a broad and innovative informational approach, Sustainable Agriculture and New Biotechnologies is the first book to apply omic technologies to address issues related to understanding and improving agricultural sustainability in the food production process.

This book offers a rare and detailed insight into 20 years' of in-depth field research and conservation of the white-headed langur.

In the past decade, the growing realization that biodiversity and human wellbeing are inextricably linked has led to the adoption of numerous environmental policies.

Across the world, ecosystems are for sale.

This book will present the theory involved in wastewater treatment processes, define the important design parameters involved, and provide typical values of these parameters for ready reference; and also provide numerical applications and step-by-step calculation procedures in solved examples.

This edited volume documents the current nature conservation status of arable habitats in Europe.

Tree based production systems abound especially in the tropics.

Coastal ecosystems make up some of the most important and, yet, most endangered, regions in the world.

With its lush wetlands, miles of beaches, and wide array of colorful wildlife, Florida is a fascinating and important ecosystem to study.

An account of the movement for sustainable development in Ecuador through four eras: movement origins, neoliberal boom, neoliberal bust, and citizens'' revolution.

Environmental problems - particularly climate change - have become increasingly important to governments and social researchers in recent decades.

This is the first book to describe the ecology of high latitude lakes, rivers and glacial environments in both the North and South polar regions.

The Brazilian Amazon is the largest area of tropical rainforest in Latin America.

Food is the sustenance of life.

The book seeks to cover the application of the principles of the circular economy within the context of the processing and waste management industry in sub-Saharan Africa.

This book addresses the recognition of the Rights of Nature (RoN) in Europe, examining their conceptualisation and implementation.

A wide range of crop genetic resources is vital for future food security.

Dioxin - Environmental Fate and Health/Ecological Consequences offers a unique, and comprehensive coverage of dioxins and their congeners once they are released to the environment.

This groundbreaking volume is the first comprehensive, critical examination of the rise of protected areas and their current social and economic position in our world.

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

Fungi are diverse, delicious and sometimes deadly.

Across the world, ecosystems are for sale.

Limnology provides an in-depth and current overview of the field of limnology.

Wild seashores and woodlands calm and refresh our spirits.

Changes in production, demand, supply, and trade patterns; the impact of green building and bioenergy on industry practices and policy infrastructure; and new economies with production advantages and large consumption bases all present challenges and opportunities in the forest sector.

Wireless Sensor Networks overcome the difficulties of other monitoring systems.

This book describes and illustrates 300 species of free-living marine nematodes from the East China Sea and includes eighteen new species.

Des profondeurs mystérieuses du lac Vostok, en Antarctique, aux lacs des plaines inondables tropicales, les écosystèmes lacustres partagent de nombreuses caractéristiques.

Forty years after the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, the goal of sustainable development continues via the Rio+20 conference in 2012.