Ecological science, the Biosphere

This book provides complete and up-to-date information on sika deer biology and its management, focusing on their life history with an integrated approach of population dynamics, morphology, genetics, and evolution.

The studies in this volume provide an ethnography of a plantation frontier in central Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo.

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 discusses the findings of research on the human dimensions of wildlife management conducted in Japan, demonstrating how such research and approaches have contributed to mitigating human-wildlife conflicts.

This book discusses the water and carbon cycle system in the permafrost region of eastern Siberia, Providing vitalin sights into how climate change has affected the permafrost environment in recent decades.

This book presents the major research advances relating to Chinese Danxia landforms over the past 80 years.

This book systematically discusses the vegetation dynamics in northern China since the LGM, with a focus on three dominant tree species (Pinus, Quercus and Betula).

Through this book, readers will gain a comprehensive overview of transdisciplinary knowledge co-production in local contexts as an issue-driven and solution-oriented process, and will come to understand its relationship to societal transformation processes toward sustainability.

This book systematically illustrates the underlying mechanisms of spatial variation in ecosystem carbon fluxes.

This book focuses on Blakiston's fish owl and the red-crowned crane as umbrella species.

This book comprehensively introduces recent important studies on coral reefs from various research fields including biology, ecology, chemistry, the earth sciences, and conservation studies.

This book describes the current environmental changes due to global warming in northern Eurasia, especially focusing on eastern Siberia.

The book discusses invasive-species problems in agriculture, forests and aquatic ecosystems, highlighting the invasive mechanisms and management of the selected invasive species.

This book presents narratives, perspectives and policies on the Arctic and brings to fore the strategies of five Asian countries - China, India, Japan, Republic of Korea and Singapore who were granted the status of Permanent Observers in the Arctic Council in 2013.

This comprehensive book discusses the ecophysiological features of trees affected by the two most prominent factors of climate change: atmospheric CO2 concentration and temperature.

This book demonstrates how varying levels of human disturbance manifested through different management regimes influence composition, richness, diversity and abundance of key mammal, bird and plant species, even within ecologically similar habitats.

This volume examines the topic of local biodiversity conservation in the Asia-Pacific region, one of the most rapidly changing areas in the world.

This monograph aims at bringing out a comprehensive collection of information on bamboo varieties in South Asia.

This book provides new insights into the mechanisms of plant hormone-mediated growth regulation and stress tolerance covering the most recent biochemical, physiological, genetic, and molecular studies.

This book describes the current environmental changes due to global warming in northern Eurasia, especially focusing on eastern Siberia.

This book reviews the gray system and combines its latest research results in fishery science.

This book introduces the complex world of carbon dynamics within forest ecosystems, particularly in boreal zones, while also incorporating findings from selected temperate areas.

This book is a reference material on how to sustainably manage water crises.

The book elaborates on microplastics as a global concern, prompting the need for comprehensive understanding and effective management.

This contributed volume covers all aspects of small indigenous fish for nutritional and livelihood security.

This book brings together a comprehensive overview of gender and energy to provide an invaluable resource for researchers and practitioners.

This contributed volume comprises of detailed chapters covering the biotechnological approaches employed for the removal of toxic recalcitrant xenobiotics such as petroleum hydrocarbons, textile dyes, microplastics and synthetic polymers that pose serious threat to the environment.

In this book, leading researchers from this field systematically explain the latest research results on anaerobic responses in plants.

"e;Plankton in a Changing World: The Impact of Global Change on Marine Ecosystems"e; invites readers to explore the microscopic hidden world beneath the waves.

The book elaborates on microplastics as a global concern, prompting the need for comprehensive understanding and effective management.

This book highlights clean energy transition via sustainable utilization of biomass resources, viz.

This book introduces the concept of a semi-closed ecosystem, which is necessary for the social implementation of plant production, such as agriculture, in harmony with the environment.

This book focuses on the various applications of microorganisms for sustainable environment and the reduction of hazardous pollutants released in various forms, including xenobiotics, e-waste, pesticides, insecticides, plastic, heavy metals, paper waste, medical waste, textile dyes, and their impact on environmental and human health.

The variety of theoretical themes and practical components contributing to modern insect conservation continues to diversify, together with realisation that insects affect many aspects of human wellbeing.

This book states that the new environmental challenge will also have to be faced ethically, science can provide the tools, but people will have to be sensitized so that they make their own environmental ethics.

This book presents a synopsis, with an innovative approach, of abundance, types and conditions of work performed in the tropical plantation and natural forests.

This richly illustrated textbook covers modern statistical methods with applications in medicine, epidemiology and biology.

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