Ecological science, the Biosphere

This book focuses on the challenges in conservation, management and protection of forests in India as well as other countries, using recently developed technologies.

Poultry Meat and Egg Production has been prepared primarily for use as a text for students taking their first courses in poultry manage- ment.

This contributed volume covers the applications of marine biotechnology for food, drugs and energy production using marine resources.

This book presents practical information about hemispherical photography from the perspectives of field data acquisition, image processing and information retrieval methods.

This work was begun to provide keys to the aquatic insect species known from Brazil.

Microbes are ubiquitous in nature, and plant-microbe interactions are a key strategy for colonizing diverse habitats.

Recent studies have shown that genetic polymorphisms play an important role in structuring the seasonal life cycles of insects, complementing an earlier emphasis on the effects of environmental factors.

Forest Pattern and Ecological Process is a major synthesis of 25 years of intensive research about the montane ash forests of Victoria, which support the world's tallest flowering plants and several of Australia's most high profile threatened and/or endangered species.

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Siberia's Lake Baikal is one of nature's most magnificent creations, the largest and deepest body of fresh water in the world.

This book provides an introduction into the diversity of the environmental movement through great characters in the green sector.

It has been 10 years since Plenum included a series of reviews on bacte- riophages, in Comprehensive Virology.

This book discusses a crucial paradigm shift in urban planning and architectural design, addressing the urgent need for sustainability  and adaptation in the face of rapidly changing climate and urban landscapes.

This proceedings book is devoted to the development of environmental analysis of the surface layer of atmospheric air and green areas of urbanized areas.

Genetic erosion is the loss of genetic diversity within a species.

This is one of those biographies that provide a window onto the broader understanding of science in its social and cultural context.

Ecologists traditionally regard time as part of the background against which ecological interactions play out.

This book examines the processes for the inclusion of women, and the role of women employees in Nepal's forestry bureaucracy.

This volume gathers together selected, peer-reviewed papers presented at the BIOMAT 2020 International Symposium, which was virtually held on November 1-6, 2020, with an organization staff based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Habitability of the Universe before Earth: Astrobiology: Exploring Life on Earth and Beyond (series) examines the times and places-before life existed on Earth-that might have provided suitable environments for life to occur, addressing the question: Is life on Earth de novo, or derived from previous life?

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

As the world population increases, there is increasingcompetition for waterquantity as well as quality.

Recent developments in Pleistocene research have prompted the authors to produce this up-to-date, concise account of environmental changes during the past two million years.

The main thrust of this book is focused on addressing the various interrelated processes, analysis and activities bearing upon sound river management.

The biological composition and richness of most of the Earth's major ecosystems are being dramatically and irreversibly transformed by anthropogenic activity.

Fundamentals of Ecological Modelling: Applications in Environmental Management and Research, Fourth Edition, provides a comprehensive discussion of the fundamental principles of ecological modeling.

This volume explores current knowledge and methods used to study soil organisms and to attribute their activity to wider ecosystem functions.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

The complex and multidisciplinary nature of environmental problems requires that they are dealt with in an integrated manner.

This volume is directed toward physicians who perform gynecologic sur- gery.

This fifth volume in the series The Plant Viruses, dealing with viruses with bipartite genomes, completes the coverage of viruses with isometric parti- cles and genomes consisting of single-stranded, positive-sense RNA: viruses that have tripartite and monopartite genomes of this kind were dealt with in Volumes 1 and 3, respectively.

This book updates the first edition for the status of knowledge in the physics of lake ice and the interactions between the ice cover and the liquid water underneath.

Three invited international experts present overviews of recent developments in key fields and will submit chapters for the book.

This book analyses and develops overarching concepts for forest policy and forest governance and includes a detailed investigation into the historical discussion on forests.

We hope this book will make the bewildering variety of methods for estimat- ing the abundance of animal populations more accessible to the uninitiated and more coherent to the cogniscenti.

This book deals with a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for humans and their children.

A World in Transition, Humankind and Nature is appropriately entitled after its aim for an intrinsic property of reality: change.

This book explores the sustainability aspect of organic and conventional farming systems, which is commonly categorized into three sub-aspects: social, environmental and economic.

Global warming is accelerating faster than the ability for natural repair, and environmental stresses are damaging ecosystems, all affecting physical and biological systems on Earth.

This contributed volume covers a comprehensive account of the sources, toxic biological as well as environmental impacts, and possible remediation strategies for contamination by heavy metals.

This book presents a timely review of the latest advances in rhizosphere biology, which have been facilitated by the application of omics tools.

During the past five years increased awareness of environmental contamination by nitroaromatic compounds has led to a dramatic increase in research on their biodegradation.

When trying to solicit authors for this book it became apparent that the causal factors for heterosis at the physiological and biochemical level are today almost as obscure as they were 30 years ago.

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Hazard assessment of a compound (xenobiotic) discharged to the aquatic environment requires data on both exposure and effects to various components of the ecosystem.

Microbial biosurfactant compounds are a group of structurally diverse molecules produced by microorganisms, and are mainly categorized according to their chemical structure.

The first three chapters of Vol.

This book deals with the fundamentals of key physiological mechanisms involved in the development and growth of fish larvae.