Ecological science, the Biosphere

This book is focused on the marine mammalian groups the Otariidae and the Odobenidae, otherwise known as fur seals, sea lions and the walrus.

R is a freely available, open-source statistical programming environment which provides powerful statistical analysis tools and graphics outputs.

Population genomics has revolutionized several disciplines of biology, genetic resource conservation and management, and breeding of crop plants by providing key and novel insights into population, evolutionary, ecological and conservation genetics, ecology, evolution and adaptation, and facilitating molecular breeding with an unprecedented power and accuracy.

Looking into the face of our alleged ape ancestor, popular Christian apologist Hank Hanegraaff dissects and debunks the astonishingly weak arguments for the evolutionary theory, revealing it as nothing more than a "e;fairy tale for grown-ups.

This book is devoted to sewage sludge, its sustainable management, and its use and implications on soil fertility and crop production.

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

This edited book offers coverage towards SDG 15 in particular, but it provides for all the SDGs in general.

This book provides the first collection of chapters written by scientists who have contributed to the understanding of disease ecology in the Galapagos Islands, an iconic and historic natural site.

This book describes the structural features and properties of important types of hydrocarbons and lipids and gives an overview of their analytical characterization in biological and environmental matrices.

This book addresses the future of urbanisation on the Galapagos Islands from a systems, governance and design perspective with the competing parameters of liveability, economic and ecological, using the Galapagos as a laboratory for the theoretical and postulative understanding of evolving settlement and habitation.

This book provides an in-depth overview on the functional ecology of daily torpor and hibernation in endothermic mammals and birds.

Much research has been done recently, and more is now in progress, to increase the effectiveness under tropical conditions of methods which have been developed in Europe for preserving timber.

Despite its small size, Belize is one of the most ecologically and culturally diverse nations in Central America.

The sixth title in the bestselling Collins Guide series, this book covers the fungi of the British Isles, with considerable relevance for Europe and the wider temperate world.

This volume is a landmark in the development of the of pilot plantations in order to demonstrate the eco- halophyte ecology research and development for the logical sustainability and the economic feasibility of saline irrigated production systems.

This survey of one the longest insect conservation campaigns in Australia deals with recovery of one of the most iconic endemic butterflies, the Richmond birdwing, threatened by clearance and fragmentation of subtropical rainforest in eastern Australia and the spread of an alien larval food-plant.

Consumers are not usually incorporated into the sociological concept of 'division of labour', but using the case of household recycling, this book shows why this foundational concept needs to be revised.

This book is a collection of original research papers given at a symposium entitled "e;Sensory Systems and Behavior of Aquatic Mammals"e;, hosted by the USSR Academy of Sciences.

The Aarhus Convention on access to information, public participation in decision-making and access to justice in environmental matters has been celebrated as a pioneering international environmental agreement.

Recent Trends in Estuarine and Coastal Dynamics: Observations and Modelling is a thorough reference guide on the most recent trends and developments in observing and modelling of estuaries and coastal oceans.

`The fundamental problem the world faces today, is the rapidly increasing pressure of population on the limited resources of the land.

This edited book aims to focus on microbial diversity in arid lands and deserts versus specific microbial assemblages associated with plants.

Volume 10 of Advances in Disease Vector Research consists of seven chapters on vectors that affect human or animal health and six chapters on plant pathogens and their vectors.

This is a concise book with comprehensive information on coal and biomass ash generated from their combustion in thermal power plants.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the fields of agricultural biotechnology, agro-food systems and forestry, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the 7th International Conference on Safety, Health and Welfare in Agriculture and Agro-food Systems (SHWA), held in Ragusa, Italy, on September 6-9, 2023.

This book is a product of Brazilian Academy of Sciences Study Group about water issue.

In this comprehensive Handbook, scholars from across the globe explore the relationships between workers and nature in the context of the environmental crises.

Because of its peculiar biology, its negative impacts on forestry, and its urticating larvae affecting human and animal health, pine processionary moth has largely been studied in many European countries during the last century.

This book reveals the interaction between the livelihood of people and the surrounding natural environment in rural and urban areas of Vietnam and discusses actions to be taken towards sustainable development, which provide some useful insights into several SDGs.

This book explores the potential of microbial metabolism in health, agriculture, and environmental technologies, serving as a comprehensive guide to microbial metabolomics with practical applications.

Ecology studies biodiversity in its variety and complexity.

Plant tissue culture (PTC) is basic to all plant biotechnologies and is an exciting area of basic and applied sciences with considerable scope for further research.

This book covers in one volume materials scattered in hundreds of research articles, in most cases focusing on specialized aspects of coral biology.

This work studies the ways vampiric narratives explore the eco-friendly credentials of the undead.

Oribatid mites are ancient, minute arthropods that live in soil, plant litter, mosses and lichens, and on trees and shrubs.

The monitoring of point sources by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the states, and the tribes has documented and helped reduce the levels of chemical stressors affecting our ecosystems.

This book documents and examines the state of health of coral reefs in the eastern tropical Pacific region.

Many industrialized and developing countries are faced with the assessment of potential risks associated with contaminated land.

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 book provides up-to-date coverage of fossil plants from Precambrian life to flowering plants, including fungi and algae.

This book explains the metabolic processes by which microbes obtain and control the intracellular availability of their required metal and metalloid ions.

This book presents an integrated, multi-disciplinary analysis that combines climate science, economics, technology and political analysis of US climate policy changes undertaken during 2021.

The recent technologies for sustainable development and maintaining ecological integrity in the field of agriculture, forestry and environmental management for the green future.