Ecological science, the Biosphere

This book consists of a diverse collection of chapters that seeks to broaden our fundamental understanding of the ecological function and biological importance of the Earth's lower atmosphere, which provides a huge living space for billions of animals moving within and across continents.

Maize is one of the most generally grown cereal crops at global level, followed by wheat and rice.

This volume provides comprehensive overviews of the primate's and each lagomorph species' biology including palaeontology, physiology, genetics, reproduction and development, ecology, habitat, diet, mortality and age determination.

Acidic deposition and its effect on aquatic ecosystems have become major scientific and public policy issues in the United States since the early 1970s, and many diverse studies have been completed.

Primate Adaptation and Evolution, Third Edition, is a thorough revision of the text of choice for courses in primate evolution.

This book will provide the state-of-the-art on most of the topics involved in the ecology and conservation of birds of prey.

This book provides up-to-date multidisciplinary information regarding microbial physiological groups in terms of their role in the Antarctic ecology.

This volume compiles state-of-the-art scientific knowledge on the technologies that are used to quantify and reduce the environmental impact of livestock production in the cattle, pig and poultry industries.

The book, showing virtuous examples of urban planning in Italy and Europe, exposes certain doubts and open questions: what is the new role of urban planning?

What is Life?

This book is about mountainurbanology grounded in Southwest China, where mountain is a typical landform for many towns and cities.

On 4 June 1629, the Batavia, pride of the Dutch East India Company Fleet, was wrecked on her maiden voyage in a seemingly empty expanse of the Indian Ocean.

Forest management is a complex process that now incorporates information obtained from many sources.

Tropical East Asia is home to over one billion people and faces massive human impacts from its rising population and rapid economic growth.

Pine wilt disease (PWD) is unquestionably a major threat to forest ecosystems worldwide.

This book is about doing innovative research to achieve sustainable and equitable change in people's health and well-being through improved interactions with the environment.

This book explains the potential value of microbiome and microbiome composition associated with human health and diseases.

A darkly alluring plant family and the arrival of modernityVictorian Nightshades tells the story of how one plant familynotorious for centuries in England because of its frequently psychoactive and poisonous propertiesrose to social and economic prevalence during the nineteenth century.

This book delves deeply into the field of microbial biological control.

This fully revised and expanded edition of Sea Urchins provides a wide-ranging understanding of the biology and ecology of this key component of the world's oceans.

This contributed volume describes management practices based on interdisciplinary and convergence science approaches from different disciplines of agricultural science to enhance the resilience of dryland agriculture.

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.

With one new volume each year, this series keeps scientistsand advanced students informed of the latest developmentsand results in all areas of botany.

This book focuses on untapped marine resources for production of biofuel, biogas, bio-fertilizers, nutraceuticals, pharmaceutical and other value-added products.

Global climate change challenges ecologists to synthesize what we know to solve a problem with deep historical roots in our discipline.

The series Advances in Marine Biology has been providing in-depth and up-to-date reviews on all aspects of marine biology since 1963 - more than 50 years of outstanding coverage from a reference that is well known for its contents and editing.

Measuring the abundance of individuals and the diversity of species are core components of most ecological research projects and conservation monitoring.

The International Joint Commission (IJC) was established between Canada and the United States under the Boundary Water Agreement in 1909.

This edited volume focuses on the use of remote sensing techniques to assess and monitor mountainous ecosystems in Africa, with a focus on tracking changes related to climate change and human activity.

In view of the increasing problems of waste disposal in the Netherlands, plans were made to pipeline the waste to the Ems-Dollard estuary.

This book highlights new and innovative approaches to archaeological research using computational modeling while focusing on the Neolithic transition around the world.

This book is the first comprehensive global review of all aspects of alien plant invasions in protected areas.

The use of small unoccupied aerial systems (sUAS) for acquiring close-range remotely sensed data has substantially increased in the past 5 years.

This book aims to serve as a centralized reference document for students and researchers interested in aspects of marine nitrogen fixation.

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.

The field of genetics is rapidly evolving, and new medical breakthroughs are occurring as a result of advances in knowledge gained from genetics reasearch.

This book offers recent insights into some of the burning issues of our times: climate change, exposure to chemicals, refugee issues and the ecological harm that accompanies conflict situations.

Decision making in environmental projects is typically a complex and confusing process characterized by trade-offs between socio-political, environmental, and economic impacts.

Ecology and Revolution: Global Crisis and the Political Challenge is an in-depth exploration and analysis of the global ecological crisis (going far beyond the issue of global warming) in the larger context of historical conditions and political options shaped by the failure (and incapacity) of the existing political system to adequately confront the crisis.

This book aims to understand how the wellbeing benefits of urban green space (UGS) are analysed and valued and why they are interpreted and translated into action or inaction, into 'success' and/or 'failure'.

This book discusses environmental crime and individual wrongdoing.

This book presents the outcomes of the 2017 national workshop and international conference organized by CEENR of ISEC, Bengaluru and Assam University Silchar.

James Delle has solved a number of problems in Caribbean archaeology with An Archaeology of Social Space.

This is the first comprehensive science-based primer to highlight the unique ecosystem services provided by mangrove forests, and discuss how these services preserve the livelihoods of coastal populations.

This book provides an interpretative analysis of the notion of spirituality through the lens of contemporary performance and posthuman theories.

The widening interest in marine biology has led to the establishment of an increasing number of school and undergraduate courses in the subject.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of silage history, culture, and production technology.

This book provides basic information on the botanical diversity in the Czech Republic and relates the patterns in flora and vegetation to environmental factors, biogeographical history and human impact.

The last 25 years have seen significant advances in our understanding of the mycorrhizal fungi that colonize most of the world's plants, and the mycorrhizal networks that form and extend into the soil beyond plant roots.