Ecological science, the Biosphere

The word sustainability shares its root with sustenance.

This book provides an exclusive and critical in-depth analysis of paddy straw waste valorization at a broad scale for different industrial applications.

The book provides information on the sources of arsenic contamination of groundwater and their impacts in the first part of the book consisting of 8 chapters.

The latest edition of this highly successful and popular textbook has been completely revised and updated to include the latest developments in biogeography.

The Baja California peninsula is home to many forms of life found nowhere else on earth.

Jointly published with INRA, Paris.

This book explores gendered perceptions of the Sundarbans Forest in Bangladesh, and the extent to which these perceptions are affected by extreme weather events (specifically, cyclones Aila and Sidr).

This book presents a summary of terrestrial microbial processes, which are a key factor in supporting healthy life on our planet.

In this book, the editors present a view of the socioecology of primates and cetaceans in a comparative perspective to elucidate the social evolution of highly intellectual mammals in terrestrial and aquatic environments.

This book summarises investigations on Lake Verevi (surface 12.

This book covers the wider aspects of the microbiology of hot desert soil ecosystems, compiling disparate information from a range of relevant desert soil microbial fields.

All manner of models are used to describe, simulate, extrapolate, and ultimately understand the function of dynamic systems.

While studies of San children have attained the peculiar status of having delineated the prototype for hunter-gatherer childhood, relatively few serious ethnographic studies of San children have been conducted since an initial flurry of research in the 1960s and 1970s.

Stingless bees (Meliponini) are the largest and most diverse group of social bees, yet their largely tropical distribution means that they are less studied than their relatives, the bumble bees and honey bees.

This 2006 book summarises the current methods and models used in managing large herbivore populations and their habitats.

This book clearly describes the many applications of graph theory to ecological questions, providing instruction and encouragement to researchers.

This edited volume discusses the role of various microbial products in healthcare, environment and agriculture.

In the transfer of chemical species through the aquatic environment the association with fine sediment particles is often of crucial importance.

The generation of well-defined nanoparticles of excellent size and shape involves physical and chemical methodologies that are complicated, expensive, and produce hazardous toxic waste that is harmful to the environment and to human health.

No other disjunct pieces of land present such striking similarities as the widely sepa- 1 rated regions with a mediterranean type of climate, that is, the territories fringing the Mediterranean Sea, California, Central Chile and the southernmost strips of South Mrica and Australia.

This book explores the biology of decapod shrimps, a group of animals known to most people as a nutritious and tasty food item.

The oceans cover over 70% of our planet.

This book describes the outstanding features of the ecology and bio- geography of the Indian region, comprising former British India, Nepal, Bhutan, Ceylon and Burma.

Throughout history, hearing and sound perception have been typically framed in the context of how sound conveys information and how that information influences the listener.

As J understand it, a book Preface is where the author explains to the reader how the book in hand came about, something of the personal reasons for having inflicted such extended duress on one's self to complete the manllscript.

It has been over a decade since the release first edition of the now classic original edition of Murray's Mathematical Biology.

Advances in Agronomy, Volume 161, continues to be recognized as a leading reference and first-rate source for the latest research in agronomy.

Environmental Chemistry is a relatively young science.

This book proposes a reconstruction of the relationship between tourism, growth and sustainability.

This book began life as a review article.

This book investigates the potential need for an international convention on forests and establishes a multifunctional concept of forests as a cornerstone for international forest regulation.

Soil organic carbon (SOC), a key component of the global carbon (C) pool, plays an important role in C cycling, regulating climate, water supplies and biodiversity, and therefore in providing the ecosystem services that are essential to human well-being.

This book covers an overview of the Mahanadi River basin, spanning a total area of 141,581 square kilometers and extending across the states of Chhattisgarh (52.

Bacteria change the surface of the Earth.

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

This book integrates 30 years of mercury research on the Florida Everglades to inform scientists and policy makers.

Climb a mountain and experience the landscape.

This edited volume examines the challenges and solutions in the intricate landscape of Indian agriculture and global trade.

This book discusses the possibilities, reach, challenges, and limitations of agroforestry in new contexts where the security of food, nutrition, and the environment are equally vital.

Why our cats are a danger to species diversity and human healthIn 1894, a lighthouse keeper named David Lyall arrived on Stephens Island off New Zealand with a cat named Tibbles.

A comprehensive treatment of visual ecologyVisual ecology is the study of how animals use visual systems to meet their ecological needs, how these systems have evolved, and how they are specialized for particular visual tasks.

This book provides an interdisciplinary overview of the role of gardens in cities throughout different historical periods.

The ontogeny of each individual contributes to the physical, physiological, cognitive, neurobiological, and behavioral capacity to manage the complex social relationships and diverse foraging tasks that characterize the primate order.

This book deals with the multi-omics approaches to investigate the diversity of endophytes and their interaction with plants in diversified ecological systems.

This book provides a first synthetic view of an emerging area of ecology and biogeography, linking individual- and population-level processes to geographic distributions and biodiversity patterns.