Ecological science, the Biosphere

This book is about the varied range of emerging applications using specially trained detection dogs to monitor and protect aquatic ecosystems, animals, plants and related resources.

"e;awareness"e; of the world's citizens and encourage governments to devote more attention and resources to address this issue.

The underlying theme of this book is that a widespread, taxonomically diverse group of animals, important both from ecological and human resource perspectives, remains poorly understood and in delcine, while receiving scant attention from the ecological and conservation community.

This book presents an analysis of forest politics that employs a broader scope to include non-institutionalized actors.

Documenting and understanding intricate ecological interactions involving insects is a central need in conservation, and the specialised and specific nature of many such associations is displayed in this book.

This volume contains five papers dealing with a wide range of plant, animal, and soil biological topics.

Von der Arbeits gruppe Systemforschung an der Universität Osnabrück wird im Auftrag der International Union of Biologica1 Sciences (IUBS) ein Projekt zur Erstellung von sogenannten Element-Konzentrations­ Katastern in Ökosystemen (ECCE) entwickelt, das alle großen Ökosysteme der Erde einschließen soll.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of grassland ecosystems based on publications by Chinese scholars.

A decline in populations of Allegheny woodrats (Neotoma magister) was first noticed in the 1980s.

This unique book presents for the first time the current status of the Danube River Delta, the challenges facing it, and proposed strategies to solve it.

Seaweeds (macroalgae) represent the most striking living components in the Antarctic's near-shore ecosystems, especially across the West Antarctic Peninsula and adjacent islands.

This edited volume covers the application of modern breeding tools for developing climate-smart pulse crop cultivars.

The transformation of the dominant model of centralized energy production from fossil fuels to renewable energies is at the center of the public and scientific debate, as well as the subject of national and European policies, as it is connected to highly topical issues such as climate change, emissions reduction and natural disasters, security of supply and sustainability of the current economic development model.

Since the appearance of the first volume of Advances in Microbial Ecology in 1977 under the editorship of Martin Alexander, the series has achieved wide recognition as a source of in-depth, critical, and sometimes provocative reviews on the ecology of microorganisms in natural and man-made ecosystems.

Volume 3 covers recent research with expanded coverage on this important area of remediation.

Ecological Modeling:A Commonsense Approach to Theory and Practice explores how simulation modeling and its new ecological applications can offer solutions to complex natural resource management problems.

Soil as World Heritage celebrates a half century of field experiments on the Balti Steppe, in Moldova - where Dokuchaev first described the Typical Chernozem in 1877, protected from the elements by a unique system of shelter belts designed by the great man, and now provisionally listed as the first World Heritage Site for soil.

Plant mycobiome represents a diverse array of plant-associated communities of endophytic and epiphytic fungi.

This textbook provides an introduction to the mathematical models of population dynamics in mathematical biology.

Boden-, Luft- und Grundwasserverunreinigungen durch gesundheitsgefährdende Abfallstoffe z.

In the more than thirty years since the publication of Daniel H.

This book investigates the role of land titling in delivering sustainable means of poverty alleviation in developing countries.

This book is the first comprehensive history of international efforts to protect the ozone layer, the greatest success yet achieved in managing human impacts on the global environment.

This book provides the latest information on fish lectins from the perspective of inflammation and presents new ideas on the complicated mechanisms of lectin biochemistry and associated interactions.

This book is intended as a general text for undergraduates studying the manage- ment of forest insect pests.

The dynamics, politics, and richness of knowledge production in social movements and social activist contexts are often overlooked.

The second edition of this widely cited textbook continues to provide a concise but comprehensive introduction to cave and subterranean biology, describing this fascinating habitat and its biodiversity.

Biological insecticides are competing more and more with traditional chemical pesticides.

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

The Missouri River Ecosystem: Exploring the Prospects for Recovery resulted from a study conducted at the request of the U.

This comprehensive book covers a wide variety of methods for estimating the sizes and related parameters of closed populations.

Chordate Origins and Evolution: The Molecular Evolutionary Road to Vertebrates focuses on echinoderms (starfish, sea urchins, and others), hemichordates (acorn worms, etc.

Kevin Marshall is a hard act to follow.

An eagerly anticipated addition to the New Naturalist series.

The book is dedicated to the Ionian Sea, which is part of the Mediterranean.

This book contains a set of papers which explore the subject matter of human and planetary health at various anglesThe year 2015 was a special year in the field of human and planetary health.

This book reviews recent research advances in sustainable agriculture, with focus on crop production, biodiversity and biofuels in Africa and Asia.

This book, written by a multidisciplinary team of authors comprising scientists, artists and communicators, explores one of the most pressing issues of our time - the menace plastics pose to marine environments and organisms.

The book on sea ice ecology is the ecology of sea ice algae and other microorganism as bacteria, meiofauna, and viruses residing inside or at the bottom of the sea ice, called the sympagic biota.

COMPARATIVE EMBRYOLOGY OF ANGIOSPERMS is a review of thedevelopmental processes leading to sexual reproduction inflowering plants.

Asaresultofvarioushumanactivities,suchasincreaseinhumanpopulation,decrease in arable land due to soil degradation, urbanization, industrialization and associated increase in the demand for livestock products, dramatic changes are occurring in the global ruminant livestock sector.

This book is about mountainurbanology grounded in Southwest China, where mountain is a typical landform for many towns and cities.

This book presents selected papers from the II International Conference "e;Ecosystems without Borders 2021"e;, held at Kaliningrad State Technical University in Kaliningrad, Russia on October 5-7, 2021.

This compendium looks at Asian and European policies for dealing with climate change, and possible impacts on conflicts and security.

Earth scientists, who have worked together for 6 years in the priority pro- gram "e;Hydrogeochemical Processes in the Hydrological Cycle Within the Unsaturated and Saturated Zones"e;, have summarized the results of their research in this volume.