Ecological science, the Biosphere

This book reports on the ecological engineering of granular sludge processes for a high-rate removal of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus nutrients in compact wastewater treatment plants.

'Systemic management' describes a holistic, objective and universally applicable form of management, providing a framework for addressing environmental challenges such as global warming, emergent diseases, deforestation, overpopulation, the extinction crisis, pollution, over-fishing, and habitat destruction.

Angesichts der zunehmenden Zerstörung der Natur durch den Menschen und der technischen Fortschritte in den Biowissenschaften hat die Frage nach dem Verhältnis des Menschen zu seiner natürlichen Umwelt höchste Aktualität.

In this thoroughly updated third edition, the authors have provided a series of carefully designed and tested field and laboratory exercises that represent the full scope of limnology.

The studies in this volume provide an ethnography of a plantation frontier in central Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo.

This book delivers an outline to graduate, undergraduate students, and researchers, as well as academicians who are working on lead toxicity with respect to remediation.

Amphibian species around the world are unusually vulnerable to a variety of threats, by no means all of which are properly understood.

This book focuses on the long-term interactions between people and nature in and around Lake Biwa, one of the oldest lakes in the world.

This is an ecology textbook focused on key principles that underpin research and management at the landscape scale.

This monograph is devoted to full-scale geoecological risk assessment in gas industry impacted polar areas and the relevant risk management options using innovative nature-like biogeochemical technologies.

This book discusses the conditions that underpin configuration of specific places as resource peripheries and the consequences that such a socio-spatial formation involves for those places.

What sight is more beautiful than a high-energy beach facing lines of rolling white breakers?

The world is getting warmer.

Howler monkeys (genus Alouatta) comprise twelve species of leaf-eating New World monkeys that range from southern Mexico through northern Argentina.

Soil degradation is clearly one of the most pressing problems facing man- kind.

New Guinea, the largest tropical island, supports a spectacular bird fauna characterized by cassowaries, megapodes, pigeons, parrots, kingfishers, and owlet-nightjars, as well as the iconic birds of paradise and bowerbirds.

As an introduction to the present book I would like to explain how it was, that I, a commercial nurseryman, became so keenly interested in Conifers and their nomen- clature.

Viewing the Future in the Past is a collection of essays that represents a wide range of authors, loci, and subjects that together demonstrate the value and necessity of looking at environmental problems as a long-term process that involves humans as a causal factor.

A profoundly satisfying read Financial TimesIn Field Notes from the Edge, the acclaimed writer of the Guardian's 'Country Diary', Paul Evans, takes us on a journey through the in-between spaces of Nature such as strandlines, mudflats, cliff tops and caves where one wilderness is on the verge of becoming another and all things are possible.

This volume critiques the current model of the creative economy, and considers alternative models that may point to greener, cleaner, more sustainable and socially just cultural and creative industries.

This book examines the extent to which exotic pine plantations are a suitable strategy for maintaining the essential functions, structures, processes and identity of the Patagonian landscape over time.

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Das Auffinden und die Sanierung von Altlasten entwickelt sich zu einer der zentralen Aufgaben von Naturwissenschaftlern, Ingenieuren und Beamten von regionalen, nationalen und internationalen Behörden im Umweltbereich.

Dragonflies are among the most familiar and popular of all insects, deeply embedded in human cultural history.

This book provides an overview of our current understanding of polyembryony in insects.

PALEOECOLOGY PALEOECOLOGYPast, Present and Future Paleoecology is a discipline that uses evidence from fossils to provide an understanding of ancient environments and the ecological history of life through geological time.

Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura) (Diptera: Drosophilidae), the spotted wing drosophila (SWD), is the most important pest affecting berry crop production worldwide.

Most birds cannot cover the distance between their breeding and winter quarters in one hop.

Advances in Agronomy, Volume 153, the latest release in this comprehensive series, continues its recognition as a leading, first-rate source for the latest research in agronomy.

A stunningly illustrated look at the mating and parenting lives of the world's birdsBird Love looks at the extraordinary range of mating systems in the avian world, exploring all the stages from courtship and nest-building to protecting eggs and raising chicks.

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Plants, fungi, and viruses were among the first biological objects studied with an electron microscope.

Non-Chemical Weed Control is the first book to present an overview of plant crop protection against non-food plants using non-chemical means.

This volume constitutes a series of invited chapters based on presentations given at an International Conference on the Sensory Biology of Aquatic Animals held June 24-28, 1985 at the Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Florida.

We offer here a non-conventional approach to muhivariate ima- structured data for which the basis is well tested but the analytical ramifi- cations are still unfolding.

This volume brings together theoretical, experiential, and creative perspectives on the phenomenon of urban foraging.

Protected areas have often been defined as the backbones of biodiversity conservation.

Dieses Buch beschreibt die zukunftsfähige Gestaltung der physischen Basis von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft insgesamt durch eine gerechte Steuerung des weltweiten Ressourcenverbrauchs.

The third volume in the Global Arctic series examines the transformation of Arctic governance following the 2022 outbreak of war in Ukraine.

A fascinating and important history of foreign students in American higher education.

Falcons have been exploited by humans as food source, ornamental purposes or for the falconry practices.

Applications of Machine Learning in Hydroclimatology is a comprehensive exploration of the transformative potential of machine learning for addressing critical challenges in water resources management.

For over 350 million years, thousands of species of amphibians have lived on earth, but since the 1990s they have been disappearing at an alarming rate, in many cases quite suddenly and mysteriously.

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