Ecological science, the Biosphere

The significance of the climate change and their impacts on fruit crops, their problems, and their solutions determine the need for a book in agriculture.

Marine sediments dominate the global seabed, creating the largest ecosystem on earth.

Biology and Ecology of Earthworms is established as a key valuable text for students of agriculture, soil science, and soil invertebrate zoology and ecology.

This study of wetlands management and development policy uses integrated ecosystem modelling which links hydrology, ecology and economics.

Concerted efforts to study starvation and survival of nondifferentiating vegeta- tive heterotrophic bacteria have been made with various degrees of intensity, in different bacteria and contexts, over more than the last 30 years.

Climate changes, particularly warming trends, have been recorded around the globe.

In response to the field's need for an introductory text, the authors have distilled the vast and scattered literature relating to the biotechnology of microbial secondary metabolites.

'A fantastic little book' - BirdwatchFeaturing 130 of the most common and readily identifiable species, this illustrated pocket guide is the ideal companion for anyone interested in the naturally occurring spiders found in the British Isles.

Increasingly, mathematical methods are being used to advantage in addressing the problems facing humanity in managing its environment.

Jarvis and McNaughton provide a cogent example of the impact of physiological studies in ecology.

Ecologists have two long-standing ways to study large ecosystems such as lakes, forests, and salt-marsh estuaries.

The first book to focus exclusively on the subject, Geodiversity, Second Edition describes the interrelationships between geodiversity and biodiversity, the value of geodiversity to society, as well as current threats to its existence.

There is a growing need for cooperation between disciplines, not only to deal with the burning problems of the present, but to study the interaction of societies and their ecosystems in the past.

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date compendium of critical information for those working in the field of fungal biofilms, and those entering the field.

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This treatise is focused on early aspects of fungal pathogenesis in plant and animal hosts.

How Plants Communicate with Their Biotic Environment addresses how plants perceive the presence of organisms (other plants, microbes, insects and nematodes) living in their proximity, how they manage to be attractive when these organisms are friendly, and how they defend themselves from foes.

This book provides detailed information on the Northwestern Himalayas in India.

Global attention in scientific, industrial, and governmental communities to traces of toxic chemicals in foodstuffs and in both abiotic and biotic environ- ments has justified the present triumvirate of specialized publications in this field: comprehensive reviews, rapidly published progress reports, and archival documentations.

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

The wealth of the natural sciences no longer consists in the abundance of facts, but in the way they are linked together.

This book presents select proceedings of North-East Research Conclave (NERC 2022) that will help pave way toward disaster risk reduction through a holistic and multidisciplinary approach.

Evidence has been mounting for some time that intensive row-crop agriculture as practiced in developed countries may not be environmentally sustainable, with concerns increasingly being raised about climate change, implications for water quantity and quality, and soil degradation.

In Britain and Ireland there are about ten times more species of solitary bee than bumblebee and honeybee combined, yet the solitary bees tend to be ignored and we know much less about them.

Experts in soil and environmental sciences as well as in the theory of wave propagation and numerical modeling methods provide a comprehensive account of different aspects of pollutant migration in soils, aquifers, and other geological formations.

By the end of the 19th century both beaver species had been extirpated from large portions of their native ranges.

An exploration of the biodiversity status of coastal habitats worldwide, emphasising their importance to society, major threats and conservation challenges.

Thin Places is an eloquent meditation on what it means to move between cultures and how one might finally come home, a particular paradox in a culture that lacks deep ties to the natural world.

This book highlights new and emerging uses of stable isotope analysis in a variety of ecological disciplines.

This volume contains a cross-section of the papers presented at the International Symposium on Mathematical Modelling of Ecological, Environmental and Biological Systems held in Kanpur, India, in August 1985.

During evolution, there have been several major changes in the way that genetic information is organized and transmitted from one generation to the next.

In Rio Grande do Sul, Southern Brazil, there are hundreds of Eucalyptus forest farms for pulp production distributed in several municipalities.

Environmental Data Analysis is an introductory statistics textbook for environmental science.

This book is focused on the marine mammalian groups the Otariidae and the Odobenidae, otherwise known as fur seals, sea lions and the walrus.

R is a freely available, open-source statistical programming environment which provides powerful statistical analysis tools and graphics outputs.

Population genomics has revolutionized several disciplines of biology, genetic resource conservation and management, and breeding of crop plants by providing key and novel insights into population, evolutionary, ecological and conservation genetics, ecology, evolution and adaptation, and facilitating molecular breeding with an unprecedented power and accuracy.

Looking into the face of our alleged ape ancestor, popular Christian apologist Hank Hanegraaff dissects and debunks the astonishingly weak arguments for the evolutionary theory, revealing it as nothing more than a "e;fairy tale for grown-ups.

This book is devoted to sewage sludge, its sustainable management, and its use and implications on soil fertility and crop production.

This book is a reference material on how to sustainably manage water crises.

Despite its small size, Belize is one of the most ecologically and culturally diverse nations in Central America.

The sixth title in the bestselling Collins Guide series, this book covers the fungi of the British Isles, with considerable relevance for Europe and the wider temperate world.

Consumers are not usually incorporated into the sociological concept of 'division of labour', but using the case of household recycling, this book shows why this foundational concept needs to be revised.

This book is a collection of original research papers given at a symposium entitled "e;Sensory Systems and Behavior of Aquatic Mammals"e;, hosted by the USSR Academy of Sciences.