Ecological science, the Biosphere

The Sunday Times BestsellerA new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough's seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet.

This book provides an updated knowledge on the biohydrogen production from industrial and municipal organic waste materials.

This edited book details the plant-assisted remediation methods, which involves the interaction of plant roots with associated rhizospheric microorganisms for the remediation of soil and water contaminated with high levels of heavy metals, pesticides, radionuclides, agricultural by-products, municipal wastes, industrial solvents, petroleum hydrocarbons, organic compounds, and various other contaminants.

In diesem disziplinübergreifenden Fachbuch, welches die Brücke zwischen den Natur- und Sozialwissenschaften schlägt, werden sowohl die wissenschaftlichen Grundlagen der Renaturierungsökologie wie auch praktische Aspekte der Ökosystemrenaturierung umfassend dargestellt.

The classical theory of natural selection, as developed by Fisher, Haldane, and 'Wright, and their followers, is in a sense a statistical theory.

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This book discusses disaster risks and hazards as well as measures to increase people's resilience.

This book presents selected contributions of the 34th International School of Hydraulics that was held in May 2015 in Zelechow, Poland.

In this book I have collected many reports on the properties of bamboo.

Most biologists use nonlinear regression more than any other statistical technique, but there are very few places to learn about curve-fitting.

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This book provides an overview of the distribution, properties, and function of soils in the U.

The proposed monograph on 'Geomorphological Landscapes of India' will aim to describe and explain in simple words the geomorphological characteristics and the origin of the above-mentioned landforms and landscapes.

The soil is one of the great unsung disappearing resources, with over 100m tonnes being destroyed every year.

This book reports on the findings of, and swnmarizes the conclusions from, the Port Hacking Estuary Project, a model-guided, multidisciplinary study of an estuarine ecosystem.

This book presents the lectures and posters of some of the main leaders in the field of th magnesium research and medical applications delivered at the 8 International Symposium on Magnesium, which took place on 5-9 October, 1997 in Heraklion, Crete under the chairmanship of Professor Theophilos Theophanides.

Our North American forests are no longer the wild areas of past centuries; they are an economic and ecological resource undergoing changes from both natural and management disturbances.

Methane and its oxidation product, methanol, have occupied an important position in the chemical industry for many years: the former as a feedstock, the latter as a primary chemical from which many products are produced.

This book compiles the latest findings in the field of marine and brackishwater aquaculture.

Current growth in global aquaculture is paralleled by an equally significant increase in companies involved in aquafeed manufacture.

This book assesses Alaskan wolf and bear management programs from scientific and economic perspectives.

This book provides scientific evidence to underline the notion that forests offer the most reliable water catchments in the natural environment.

Referred to in the Bible, pictured on the wall-friezes of ancient Egyptian tombs, and a subject of fascination for generations of scientists, the tilapias (Cichlidae: Tilapiini) have featured in the diet and culture of humankind for thousands of years.

Insects, pests and weeds are responsible for substantial loss of crops and reduced food supplies, poorer quality of agricultural products, economic hardship for growers and processor.

This book is an informative and profound book that explores the impact of climate change on the unique and delicate environment of the Himalayan region.

The Ecology and Etiology of Newly Emerging Marine Diseases is a unique contribution to an entirely new field of scientific investigation.

Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration has increased globally from about 280 ppm before the Industrial Revolution (Pearman 1988) to about 353 ppm in 1990.

This book discusses the increase in number and capacity of wind farms in Germany and how this is affecting birds of prey.

Interactions between species are of fundamental importance to all living systems and the framework we have for studying these interactions is community ecology.

Investigating Seafloors and Oceans: From Mud Volcanoes to Giant Squid offers a bottom-to-top tour of the world's oceans, exposing the secrets hidden therein from a variety of scientific perspectives.

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This book features a comprehensive analysis of the development of shale gas resources in China, with a focus on the potential environmental impacts that may result.

This book fills a void in the literature around how urban agricultural education can be used to create opportunities to educate youth and citizens who live in urban areas about growing food.

Agroforestry reserach and development in Australia has been largely fragmented and many of the research results have never been published and are unknown.

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Scientists not infrequently succumb to the frustration they feel when they have to garner often quite fundamental information about an undeveloped field from scattered publications covering many disciplines by writing their own review of the field in question.

Thanks to the popular media, and to books by Dawkins, Fortey, Gould, Margulis and other writers, people are informed about many aspects of biology.

Advances in Agronomy, Volume 175, the latest release in this leading reference on agronomy, contains a variety of updates and highlights new advances in the field.

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to  basic ecological and biological principles underlying modern agriculture, forestry, fisheries and aquaculture, and explains how these principles are used to increase the production of food and other raw materials (wood, biofuels, fibers and other materials).

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

Explore our emotional bond with nature to heal ourselves and the natural worldWhy spend countless hours indoors in front of screens when being in nature feels so good?

This book provides an overview of the induction mechanism of imposex caused by organotin compounds in gastropods, as well as fundamental information on the physiology and biochemistry of reproduction in mollusks.

This book links the molecular evolution of silk proteins to the evolution and behavioral ecology of web-spinning spiders and other arthropods.

This book examines the biology of tuco-tucos (Ctenomys) from an evolutionary perspective.

Africa is largely dependent on natural resources in its quest to achieve sustainable development goals, with its woodlands and forests known to be among the most exploited ecosystems.