Ecological science, the Biosphere

The book provides the most comprehensive review of lamprey biology since Hardisty and Potter's five-volume "e;The Biology of Lampreys"e; published more than 30 years ago.

This work is a comprehensive information on the indigenous bioresources of North Eastern India with the scope of bioprospecting for discovery and commercialization of new sources and products and long-term ecological balance.

This book discusses trends in animal behavior focusing specifically on vertebrates from the tropical region.

This book examines reconstruction and resilience of historic cities and societies from multiple disciplinary and complementary perspectives and, by doing so, it helps researchers and practitioners alike, among them reconstruction managers, urban governance and professionals.

This two-volume work is a testament to the increasing interest in the role of microbes in sustainable agriculture and food security.

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.

This book presents visual plant defenses (camouflage, mimicry and aposematism via coloration, morphology and even movement) against herbivores.

Dieses Buch richtet sich in erster Linie an Studierende in Studiengängen mit umweltwissenschaftlichem Schwerpunkt sowie an Physiker, Chemiker und Biologen, die umweltbezogene Themenfelder aufgreifen und vertiefen wollen.

Among the fishes.

This book brings together the papers presented at the Smart and Sustainable Built Environments Conference, 2018 (SASBE).

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Population genomics is revolutionizing wildlife biology, conservation, and management by providing key and novel insights into genetic, population and landscape-level processes in wildlife, with unprecedented power and accuracy.

In this collection of essays, some of the leading ecologists and philosophers discuss the foundations of ecology and evolutionary biology.

This volume is a collection of reports presented at the International NATO Advanced Research Workshop Conservation of the Biological Diversity as a Prerequisite for Sustainaible Development of the Black Sea Region.

The objective of this book is to make analytical methods available to students of ecology.

This up-to-date guidebook on freshwater invertebrates of the central European region is a richly illustrated work, providing an excellent source of systematic information on freshwater macroinvertebrates.

The electric field of the heart was described diagrammatically for the first time by A.

This book explores the challenges posed by plastic pollution in terrestrial environment and focuses on the reuse of plastic waste for sustainable practices, as well as the challenges and innovative approaches to combat the growing plastic crisis.

Awaken your senses and make the most out of your next walk in the woodswith Peter Wohlleben, New York Times-bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees.

For the first time, an effort to conduct coordinated interdisciplinary research on a vast and complex saline lake has been undertaken for the purposes of providing baseline data to guide restoration project activities.

This Brief analyses and discusses the laterites in the Bengal Basin.

This is a book about proximate mechanisms.

When we think of climate change, we often picture man-made global warming, caused by greenhouse gas emissions.

This book studies human settlements in China in terms of Human Settlements Trialism in 4 typical human settlement types: valley, plain, hilly, and arid regions.

Few settings in literature are as widely known or celebrated as J.

A century of research on heterostylous plants has passedsince the publication of Charles Darwin's book "e;TheDifferent Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species"e; in1877 summarizing his extensive observations and experimentson these complex breeding systems involving geneticpolymorphisms of floral sex organs.

The Arabian Seas Marine Region encompasses marine areas from Djibouti to Pakistan, including the northern part of Somalia, the Red Sea, the Arabian/Persian Gulf, and parts of the Arabian Sea.

Transportation of species to areas outside their native ranges has been a feature of human culture for millennia.

This book comprehensively describes essential research and projects on climate change and biodiversity.

This book is an outcome of collaborative efforts of a multidisciplinary team of scientists.

​In der Bundesrepublik Deutschland überwachen die Behörden der Länder die Einhaltung der Vorschriften, die für das Inverkehrbringen und die Anwendung von Pflanzenschutzmitteln gelten.

This volume defines and analyzes the Blue Economy, a system that encompasses all the economic activities which are happening in and around the ocean within a sustainable development framework, with focus on countries in Asia.

The scientific community has voiced two general concerns about the future of the earth.

Nonindigenous plants and plant pests that find their way to the United States and become invasive can often cause problems.

Sun, wind and water draining from the land interact with the morphological features of a water body to create the environment experienced by freshwater plants and animals.

Forests in Development: A Vital Balance, shows some of the main advances in forestry over the six years spanning between the XII World Forestry Congress in Canada and the XIII WFC held in Buenos Aires.

Maintaining forest biodiversity by combining protection, management and restoration of forest and woodland landscapes is a central component of sustainable development.

Provides an accessible introduction to urban ecology, using established ecological theory to identify generalities in the complexity of urban environments.

The first stand-alone textbook for at least ten years on this increasingly hot topic in times of global climate change and sustainability in ecosystems.

This book describes the biodiversity and biogeography of nothern Mexico, documents the biological importance of regional ecosystems and the impacts of human land use on the conservation status of plants and wildlife.

The book provides an in-depth analysis of the major issues related to the conservation of threatened medicinal plants in the Indian Himalayan region.

Standardized methods and measurements are crucial for ecological research, particularly in long-term ecological studies where the projects are by nature collaborative and where it can be difficult to distinguish signs of environmental change from the effects of differing methodologies.

Since the first commercial introduction of transgenic corn plants in 1995, biotechnology has provided enormous benefits to agricultural crop production.

This textbook introduces marine biotechnology by collecting the key knowledge on genetics, fish breeding, genetic diversity, seaweed production and microalgae biotechnology, and explores marine biomaterials and how they can benefit human health.