Conservation of the environment

This book is intended as a conceptual roadmap to show how some of the numerous pieces of complex coastal systems intersect and might interact under changing future environmental regimes.

»Wir stehen als Menschen nicht außerhalb der Natur.

»Ich kann mir nicht vorstellen, was ich empfinden würde, wenn ich vor dem letzten Exemplar einer Art stünde.

Was ist Umweltethik?

Documenting and understanding intricate ecological interactions involving insects is a central need in conservation, and the specialised and specific nature of many such associations is displayed in this book.

This book aims to quantify and discuss how societies have directly and indirectly benefited from ecosystem services in Patagonia; not only in terms of provisioning and cultural services, but also regulating and supporting services.

This book explores today's changing intellectual climate, wherein understanding politics at different levels from global to local is considered mandatory in order to appraise the outcome of nature conservation interventions.

This second volume is the work of more than 55 authors from 15 different disciplines and includes complex systems science which studies the viability of components, and also the study of empirical situations.

This book is intended to provide an overview for the identification and establishment of biodiversity islands.

This book presents the biodiversity of the Brazilian deep-sea and its many unique geological and biological features, as well as a review of its ecology, conservation, and future research needs.

The research category of the landscape ecology, which researches the structure, functions, and the spatio-temporal changes of the ecological landscapes, has now been contributing to the human life and the shifts of the socio-economic paradigm.

This book sets out the discussion on how cities can contribute solutions to some of the challenges the urbanised world is facing, such as the pressure of growing populations, mitigation of effects of, and adaptation to globally changing environmental, climate and public health conditions.

Sea otters and polar bears are carnivorous marine mammals that still resemble their terrestrial ancestors.

Divided into three sections, this book explores the three main pillars of sustainable development, namely economy, environment and society, and their interlinkages at the regional level.

This book provides syntheses of ecological theories and overarching patterns of urban bird ecology that have only recently become available.

This book gives basic facts about litter decomposition studies, which are of guidance for scientists who start studies.

This book on 'Secondary Agriculture' discusses the goal of doubling farmers' incomes.

This book gives an overview of various aspects of blue carbon dynamics from each country bordering the Indian Ocean.

This book deals with the new concept of biodiversity offsets.

The book explores the central question facing humanity today: how can we best survive the ten great existential challenges that are now coming together to confront us?

This book explores our changing relationship with meat as food.

This book analyzes empirical data from three specific Regional Fisheries Management Organizations (RFMOs) designed to establish rules for the conservation and management of fish stocks in the ocean, in order to assess their effectiveness in converting science into policy for the recovery and maintenance of fishery populations.

With more than 1,400 species, bats are an incredibly diverse and successful group of mammals that can serve as model systems for many unique evolutionary adaptations.

The Bahia Blanca Estuary is one of the largest coastal systems in Atlantic South America.

Is nature's value only instrumental value for human beings or does nature also have intrinsic value?

Vents and seeps are the epitome of life in extreme environments, but there is much more to these systems than just black smokers or hydrocarbon seeps.

Vents and seeps are the epitome of life in extreme environments, but there is much more to these systems than just black smokers or hydrocarbon seeps.

Cranes are enigmatic birds.

Soils have been called the most complex microbial ecosystems on Earth.

Soils have been called the most complex microbial ecosystems on Earth.

The book presents a collection of large-scale network-modeling studies on coastal systems in Latin America.

The earth's subsurface contains abundant and active microbial biomass, living in water, occupying pore space, and colonizing mineral and rock surfaces.

The earth's subsurface contains abundant and active microbial biomass, living in water, occupying pore space, and colonizing mineral and rock surfaces.

This book is a completely revised, substantially extended treatment of the physical and biological factors that drive life in high mountains.

Von der revolutionären Kraft, draußen zu sein.

***Das Pionierwerk über die neue Wissenschaft vom Verhalten der Pflanzen***Durch bahnbrechende wissenschaftliche Versuche wurde inzwischen bewiesen, was Außenseiter unter den Pflanzenforschern schon vor Jahrhunderten zu behaupten wagten: Pflanzen reagieren wie Menschen!

Klaus Wiegandt gibt den Band ›Mut zur Nachhaltigkeit.

Was sind die zentralen Probleme auf dem Weg in eine nachhaltige Entwicklung?