Ecological science, the Biosphere

The global nitrogen cycle is the one most impacted by mankind.

This book is an attempt to present a comprehensive view on the aquatic biogeog- raphy of a small but very dynamic and complex area of the globe.

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International Water Scarcity and Variability considers international water management challenges created by water scarcity and environmental change.

Defining ecology as a system-theory oriented synthesis ofboth earth and life sciences, the book aims at a novel co-herent understanding of chemicalimpact on the lower at-mosphere and characteristic types of terrestrial ecosystems.

Amazonian Dark Earths are not only a testament to the vanished civilizations of the Amazon Basin, but may provide the answer to how the large, sophisticated societies were able to sustain intensive agriculture in an environment with mostly infertile soils.

This book provides a comprehensive exploration of plant functional traits and their critical role in understanding and predicting ecosystem functions in response to environmental changes.

Combining breadth of coverage with detail, this cohesive introduction to insect ecology couples concepts with empirical examples and practical applications.

This edited book covers all aspects of wood degradation from its formation and growing in trees to its end usages when it is put into human usage.

Human-induced environmental change currently represents the single greatest threat to global biodiversity.

This is a book about how ecologists can integrate remote sensing and GIS in their daily work.

Piper is an economically and ecologically important genus of plant that includes a fascinating array of species for studying natural history, natural products chemistry, community ecology, and evolutionary biology.

The worst chemical disaster ever could be happening right now.

From the research results and discussions presented in this book it becomes clear that a profound understanding of the various interrelationships of the nutritional aspects allows the implementation of specific management strategies to improve stability and productivity of forest ecosystems.

This book reviews the latest developments in our understanding of microbial endophytes and their potential applications in enhancing productivity and disease protection.

El Nino is a meteorological and oceanographic phenomenon, which occurs at irregular intervals in the eastern tropical Pacific.

This books presents an updated compilation on fundamental interaction mechanisms of microbial communities with the plant roots and rhizosphere (belowground) and leaves and aerial parts (aboveground).

Advances in Marine Biology, Volume 76, the latest release in a series that has been providing in-depth and up-to-date reviews on all aspects of marine biology since 1963 is well known for its contents and editing.

Volumes 23 and 24 of this highly acclaimed series focus on methods used for the study of both ectomycorrhiza and vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhiza.

This book covers whole Europe within its geographical limits, providing not only an overview about biogeography and recent taxonomic status of Charophyte species but also in-depth information about recent knowledge about ecology, ontogenesis, morphology, palaeontology and systematics of this group of algae.

This book provides a state-of-art overview of the significant advances in understanding the impacts of wind energy on wildlife.

The proposed book aims to understand the mechanism of survival of microorganisms in response to chemical stress in various ecological niches that suffer direct human intervention, more so the agricultural, domestic and hospital settings.

Comprehensive exploration of how land use interacts with the atmosphere and carbon cycle, for advanced students, researchers and policy makers.

When we think of climate change, we often picture man-made global warming, caused by greenhouse gas emissions.

Holism and reductionism are traditionally seen as incompatible views or approaches to nature.

Fifty million years ago, the Arctic Ocean was a warm sea, bounded by lush vegetation of the warm-temperate shores of Scandinavia, Siberia, Alaska and the Northwest Territories.

Homology, the similarity between organisms that is due to common ancestry, is the central concept of all comparative biology.

Of the world's seven continents, Asia is the largest.

Die Vorräte an fossilen Brennstoffen sind einmalig und begrenzt.

Fruit flies are enormously important economic pests, as California has learned over the past few years (remember the Mediterranean Fruit Fly?

The encyclopaedia is planned for a very broad audience working in the fields of ecology and environment.

Volume 54 contains seven reviews covering key contemporary topics in the crop and soil sciences.

This book brings together comprehensive multi-disciplinary knowledge on diverse aspects of the Himalayan treeline ecotone which is considered one of the most sensitive ecosystems to climate change.

In the second edition of this book, the origin, upkeep and latex harvest from the Hevea rubber tree are dealt with succinctly.

This book introduces principles of Chaos theory (and Complex Adaptive Systems) to social science, in a lively and elegant way.

The Eurasian beaver was near extinction at the start of the twentieth century, hunted across Europe for its fur, meat and castoreum.

This book includes chapters focusing on the principles of biological control and influence of policy, ecology and diversity in establishing successful programs.

Since the 1950s, the pines native to the San Bernardino Mountains in Southern California have shown symptoms of decline that have proven to result from exposure to ozone, a major plant-damaging gas in photochemical oxidant air pollution.

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The Australasia-Pacific Region supports approximately 50% of the world's population.

This book presents peer-reviewed papers of the 2023 9th International Conference on Environment and Renewable Energy (ICERE 2023), which was held in Hanoi, Vietnam, during February 24-26, 2023, in hybrid mode (both online and in-person).

Terrestrial carbon balance is uncertain at the regional and global scale.

This edited volume covers cutting-edge research on different facets of microplastic pollution at the global level.

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

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