Ecological science, the Biosphere

The orangutan is the most highly endangered species of great ape.

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.

The Chesapeake Bay is North America's largest and most biologically diverse estuary, as well as an important commercial and recreational resource.

This book discusses growing environmental threats posed by air and water pollution, exploring their causes, impacts, and potential solutions.

Endophytes are commonly known as microorganisms, mainly bacteria and fungi, which live inside plant tissues without inducing symptoms.

On July 12, 1969, Ruth Davis, a young American volunteer at Dr.

Explore shattering ethical, political and practical quagmires in this gripping ecological thriller.

Since its discovery Antarctica has held a deep fascination for biologists.

LUDOMIR R.

Freer Trade, Sustainability, and the Primary Production Sector in the Southern European Union is the first full-scale academic work to cap- ture the primary production sector policy aspects of trade liberaliza- tion and sustainability with a detailed focus on a typical southern EU country, Greece.

Essential reading for undergraduate students of conservation biology and living natural resource management.

Advances in Marine Biology, Volume 84, 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, updates on many topics that will appeal to postgraduates and researchers in marine biology, fisheries science, ecology, zoology and biological oceanography.

This book transfers the newest service research concepts, such as value co-creation, to family forestry context.

Creating and Restoring Wetlands: From Theory to Practice describes the challenges and opportunities relating to the restoration of freshwater and estuarine wetlands in natural, agricultural, and urban environments in the coming century.

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.

Im Jahr der Fledermaus 2011/2012 der UNEP-EUROBATS/CMSKampagne, das unter dem Motto "Zusammen mit Fledermäusen" für den Schutz von Fledermäusen und ihrer Quartiere in Haus, Garten und Nachbarschaft wirbt, fand die 10.

With more than 10,000 species that vary in size, use diverse habitats that extend across latitudes and altitudes, consume a wide variety of food items, differ in how they fly (or not), communicate, and reproduce, and have different life histories, birds exhibit remarkable variation in form (anatomy) and function (physiology).

This edited book opens up new vistas for sustainable intensification in agriculture to provide food to ever growing population as well as adapting to the risks of global environmental change.

Since its inception in 2013, Mathematics of Planet Earth (MPE) focuses on mathematical issues arising in the study of our planet.

Skates have become a concern in recent years due to the preponderance of these elasmobranchs that are caught as bycatch or as a directed fishery.

Presented here are recent data on the mechanisms of action of different dusts and fibres of industrial interest.

The book , 'An Introduction to Phytoplanktons - Diversity and Ecology' is very useful as it covers wide aspects of phytoplankton study including the general idea about cyanobacteria and algal kingdom.

Have you ever thought about what a dog smells as it stops to sniff at a tree?

This volume uses chemometric mathematical modelling approaches to investigate geographic areas at risk of ecological degradation due to pollution.

This book provides in-depth information on Caatinga's geographical boundaries and ecological systems, including plants, insects, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.

This book describes the complex interplay between Earth's surface processes (erosion and sedimentation) and human interactions.

This book provides an interdisciplinary and comprehensible introduction to bioeconomy.

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) have been produced commercially since be- fore 1930.

This book comprehensively describes the major ecosystem services in dryland environments that are provided by typical land use, including forestland, grassland and farmland, using the Loess Plateau, Northwest China as an example.

Based on their extensive experience with teaching R and statistics to applied scientists, the authors provide a beginner's guide to R.

The Designing Environments book series addresses questions regarding necessary environmental transformation in the context of the fast-unfolding environmental crisis.

Salinity is one of the acute problems causing enormous yield loss in many regions of the world.

Norway spruce (Picea abies L.

This book sheds light on this global environmental issue and proposes solutions to reduce contamination through multi-disciplinary approaches.

Sensory needs are being recognised as a vital part of learning, development and engagement within the classroom and are being used more often to make education both accessible and fun.

This book documents the effects of natural hazards on coastal ecosystems in detail.

This volume synthesizes and analyzes thirty years of hydrological research in the Danum Valley Conservation Area, a lowland dipterocarp rainforest in Sabah, Malaysia.

The bioregion of Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and New Guinea possesses a unique natural heritage stretching back over 50 million years since the break-up of the great southern continent of Gondwanaland.

This book, the only one of its kind on ravine lands, reflects the significant advances made over the past two decades in our understanding of gully erosion, its controlling factors, and various aspects of gully erosion.

The book brings together research topics having a broad focus on human and climate change impacts on the terrestrial ecosystems in the tropics in general and more specifically from the most significant and vulnerable Himalayan ecosystem.

Plants have always occupied a prominent position in the life of every living being.

This is the fourth updated and revised edition of a well-received book that emphasises on fungal diversity, plant productivity and sustainability.

Environmental toxicology is generally held to be the study of the potential of constituents of outdoor environments to impact either human health or the biological structure of the ecosystems involved.

In the Anthropocene sustainable development responds to socio-economic, environmental and political crises provoked by humankind due to global warming and the great acceleration of human intervention in ecosystems.