Ecological science, the Biosphere

This book describes observed features of urban climate and its long-term variations as well as the relationship of climate to heat stroke in Japan, based on observational data and statistical analyses.

The classic papers that laid the foundations of modern ecology alongside commentaries by noted ecologists.

Australia's introduced vertebrate pest species cost at least $1 billion annually in economic, environmental and social impacts.

This series is dedicated to serving the growing community of scholars and prac- titioners concerned with the principles and applications of enviromental manage- ment.

This book addresses the relationship between religion, climate change, and food security in Africa.

The southwestern Amazon basin, centering on the Territory of Rondonia and the State of Acre, is symbolically if not exactly geographically, the Wild Wild West of Brazil's northern rainforest fron tier.

A succinct review of the ecological aspects of seed biology.

This book is an ambitious integration of ecological, archaeological, anthropological land use sciences, drawing on human geography, demography and economics of development across the East Africa region.

The primary objective of this book is to offer practical means for strengthening the economics and policy dimension of the agroforestry discipline.

In recent years, development policy has responded to an increasing concern about natural resource degradation by setting up innovative payment for environmental services (PES) programs in developing countries.

Insects as a group occupy a middle ground in the biosphere between bacteria and viruses at one extreme, amphibians and mammals at the other.

Studies in landscape ecology focus on the effect of heterogeneity on ecosystem structure and function.

The book is about global energy use, its past and present, and its increasingly uncertain future.

This book was written to provide a clear and systematic sum- mary of the principles of gynaecology in synoptic form.

The United States produces 25% of the world's wood output, and wood supports a major segment of the U.

This volume presents the proceedIngs of the Twelfth Annual LIn- guistics Symposium of the UniversIty of WisconsIn-Milwaukee held March 11-12, 1983 on the campus of UWM.

Explores the relationship between correlation and causation using a series of novel statistical methods.

Pollination and Floral Ecology is the most comprehensive single-volume reference to all aspects of pollination biology--and the first fully up-to-date resource of its kind to appear in decades.

This book comprises studies that reflect on various influences of excessive tourism development in protected areas, and solutions designed and initiated to mitigate such challenges.

The growth of African immigration to France at the end of the Twentieth Century wrought cultural change in this epicentre of the avant-garde in European art and music.

This book presents the state-of-the-art of knowledge in assessing, mapping, and modeling mangrove ecosystem services and outlines various scientific tools and techniques, including environmental scenario-building, spatial and econometric modelling to understand the fluctuations and future availability of mangrove ecosystem services.

This book discusses the dynamics and resource management qualities of the peri-urban interface to address climate change consequences, focusing on the peri-urban region of the global city of Bengalaru.

Genetically modified plants are currently causing controversy worldwide; a great deal has been written about their supposed environmental effects.

Books dealing with climatic change are commonplace, as are those concerned with effects of environmental stresses on plants.

The book informs about agricultural landscapes, their features, functions and regulatory mechanisms.

This book presents projections and blueprints of the future geologic period, climate and biosphere, based on our current understanding of the Earth's history and recent developments in the atmosphere-ocean-cryosphere system.

This edited book is focused on SDG 14: life below water.

This volume presents full paper contributions from the International Conference of European Spatial Data for Coastal and Marine Remote Sensing (EUCOMARE) 2022, with the support of the ERASMUS+ Programme of the European Union, held in Saint Malo, France.

Loss of biodiversity on tropical and subtropical oceanic islands is one of the most pressing conservation issues.

Over the past decade the world has seen the rise of the fascinating and diverse field currently recognized as nanotechnology.

The present book analyses critically the tripartite mimicry model (consisting of the mimic, model and receiver species) and develops semiotic tools for comparative analysis.

This book thoroughly examines the aims of green urbanism, providing a perspective to help responding to the growing environmental challenges posed by the enormous increase in human needs.

Here we report on a 25-year long-term sequence of measures to return a deteriorated recreational urban lake, Alte Donau in Vienna to acceptable water quality.

Research whilst compiling this book has uncovered a fauna about twice the size as that previously published in the literature and consequently Systema Porifera revises and stabilizes the systematics of the phylum to accommodate this new knowledge in a contemporary framework.

Among living vertebrates bats and birds are unique in their ability to fly, and it is this common feature that sets them apart ecologically from other groups.

Das Thema der gentechnisch veränderten Lebensmittel wird vor allem in Europa zur Zeit intensiv diskutiert.

Climate Change Biology, 2e examines the evolving discipline of human-induced climate change and the resulting shifts in the distributions of species and the timing of biological events.

Adaptive management is an approach to managing social-ecological systems that fosters learning about the systems being managed and remains at the forefront of environmental management nearly 40 years after its original conception.

Sika deer, the graceful spotted deer of Japanese and Chinese art, originally were native to Asia from far-east Russia to Vietnam to the islands of Japan and Taiwan.

This book presents an historical analysis of the global paper industry evolution from a comparative perspective.

The book adopts an application-oriented approach for ecorestoration of coalmine degraded.

The earth's biodiversity is a degree of ecosystem health which is vital to ecology and environmental sustainability.

The properties of continuous variation are basic to the theory of evolution and to the practice of plant and animal improvement.

Eagles are awe-inspiring birds that have influenced much human endeavour.

MATHEMATICAL ECOLOGY Population ecologists study how births and deaths affect the dynamics of populations and communities, while ecosystem ecologists study how species control the flux of energy and materials through food webs and ecosystems.