Ecological science, the Biosphere

This book is the fifth volume of the "e;Marine Algal Flora of China-Rhodophyta.

The Karl Fischer titration is used in many different ways following its publication in 1935 and further applications are continually being explored.

The book deepens understanding of biomass sources and technologies used for cooking worldwide.

This book provides a comprehensive summary of the recent advances in the biofortification of plants under climate change and how it affects food security globally.

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.

This treatise is focused on early aspects of fungal pathogenesis in plant and animal hosts.

This book is about airborne particulate matter, sources, chemistry and health and contained a complete information about their emission source, transport, atmospheric chemistry, distribution at local, regional and global levels, and their level in indoor and outdoor settings.

The economics of sustainability is much more complex than the neoclassical (Newtonian) economic approach to economic efficiency.

The ocean plays a central role in determining the climate of the earth.

This book covers the latest advances in sustainable waste management and focuses on its implementation to mitigate water and air pollution, recycle and reuse raw material, and refine valuable metals.

This book unveils forestry science and its policy and management that connect past and present understanding of forests.

The 21st century has seen the beginnings of a great restoration effort towards the world's forests, accompanied by the emergence of an increasing literature on reforestation, regeneration and regrowth of forest cover.

Science is an aspect of modern culture that carries a huge weight of prestige.

Coweeta is one of the oldest continuously operating laboratories of its type in the world.

This book will address the importance of the soil management concept, vis-a-vis chemical fertilizer use on soil.

Through use of the models Professor Horn has devised, plant ecologists, foresters, and botanists will be able to predict the growth and productivity of a forest, the invading and senile species in a forest, the effect of shade tolerance on forest succession, and similar questions.

Forest Resources Resilience and Conflicts presents modern remote sensing and GIS techniques for Sustainable Livelihood.

Recently, there has been, and continues to be, a tremendous interest on Lake Victoria and its environs, both locally and internationally.

Coral disease is quickly becoming a crisis to the health and management of the world s coral reefs.

In the past decade, the global efforts in the control of HIV disease were basically concentrated on the search for anti-retroviral agents.

This volume explains the recent findings on the mutualistic plant-microbe interactions and how they can be utilized for sustainable agriculture practices including land reclamation.

The enduring changes in the aquatic environment and the increasing influx of contaminants call for novel conceptual and methodological approaches to relating chemical pollution and ecological alterations in ecosystems.

This edited volume summarizes information about the situational context, threats, problems, challenges and solutions for sustainable pastoralism at a global scale.

The basic goal of the volume is to compile the most up to date research on the effect of ecotourism on Indonesia's primates.

This edited book provides a comprehensive account of the sustainable intensification process through various forms of case studies and scientific approaches studied across the globe.

"e;Water is life!

Soil Microbiology, Ecology, and Biochemistry, Fifth Edition addresses the increasingly important field of soil biota and their interactions in research and education.

This volume investigates the effects of human activities on coral reefs, which provide important life-supporting systems to surrounding natural and human communities.

Advances in the Study of Behavior was initiated over 40 years ago to serve the increasing number of scientists engaged in the study of animal behavior.

The poles undergo climate changes exceeding those in the rest of the world in terms of their speed and extent, and have a key role in modulating the climate of the Earth.

Water has become a challenging resource that many countries worldwide are concerned with.

A critical examination of current knowledge and ideas on cave biology, with emphasis on evolution, ecology, and conservation.

This book describes the various therapeutic and commercial applications of compounds produced by endophytes.

Molecular Mechanisms of Plant and Microbe Coexistence presents studies on the complex and manifold interactions of plants and microbes at the population, genomics and proteomics level.

Diverse as they are in their histories and in the organization of their forest sectors, most Nordic countries have this in common: their economies and cultures are substantially based on the utilization of various forest resources.

I think the reader will agree that we have attained a good balance in Volume 6 between human-or animal-host and plant-host-related topics from outstanding research scientists.

It is our conviction that professional skill in forestry will develop more readily and more efficiently if forestry students are presented with a clear understanding of the im- pact of the physical factors that both enhance and inhibit forestry activities.

The workshop "e;Genes and their products for tolerance to physical stresses in plants"e; was held in Maratea, Italy, from 24-27 September 1995.

This books explains a strategy that a country can meet its CO2 emission reduction targets (e.

This book is unique as it will cover the latest technological advancements in the field of biorefinery and how it is a major futuristic component of global biofuel research.

This book introduces what sclerotia grains are, and where and how they exist in soils, by compiling the results obtained from the studies on fungal sclerotia formed by Cenococcum geophilum (Cg) and related species, the visible black small grains persistent for a few thousand to ten thousands of years in forest soils and sediments.

This book proposes strategies for improving the resilience and conservation of temperate forests in South America, such that these forests can provide ecosystem services in a sustainable way.

While the volumes hitherto published in the Springer Series in Synergetics have been devoted almost exclusively to the self-organized formation of structures in physics, chemistry and biology, the present monograph by Weidlich and Haag deals with the formation of "e;structures"e; (or "e;patterns"e;) in society.

The European Russian forests are described within the boreal, hemiboreal and nemoral forest regions; floodplain forests are also characterized.

At the end of the first international Symposium on Rotifers diately accepted to do this, and kindly made an entire in Lunz, Austria, September 1976, entousiastic pleas were special volume of its Journal 'Hydrobiologia' available made for a second gathering of possibly the same format for this purpose.

The Oosterschelde estuary is one of the estuaries in the Netherlands which remained after the Delta scheme was completed in 1986.

Rapidly increasing interest in the problems of air pollution and source-receptor relationships has led to a significant expansion of knowledge in the field of atmospheric chemistry.