Ecological science, the Biosphere

This book focuses on soil and water conservation at global scale.

Biochar for Mitigating Abiotic Stress in Plants provides a unique and leading resource for utilizing biochar to address specific plant health challenges, including osmotic, ionic, and oxidative stress.

This reference guide covers information on the true bugs (Heteroptera) of Middle East and includes taxonomy, general biology, economic importance, applied aspects, and distributional data.

The aim of this book is to analyse the current development scenario in the Amazon, using Terra Preta de Indio as a case study.

This is the first ever monumental and scientific documentation of the faunal wealth of the Indian Desert state of Rajasthan.

This book provides a comprehensive guide to leveraging nature-based economic initiatives for sustainable rural development.

This book deals with the development of temperate coastal sand dunes and the way these have been influenced by human activity.

The Oceanography of the Eastern English Channel: Past, Present and Future, Volume 90 in the Advances in Marine Biology series, is 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.

Whatever theory may be advanced to explain diurnal migration, the underlying reactions involved must be demonstrated conc- sively in the laboratory before the explanation can be ?

Non-timber forest products (NTFP) hold economic and cultural signi?

Loss of biodiversity is among the greatest problems facing the world today.

This volume examines the role of fish and molluscs in everyday life as well as in terms of their impact on social structures, and as part of ideological and symbolic expression.

This book highlights clean energy transition via sustainable utilization of biomass resources, viz.

Seafloor Geomorphology as Benthic Habitat: GeoHab Atlas of Seafloor Geomorphic Features and Benthic Habitats, Second Edition, provides an updated synthesis of seabed geomorphology and benthic habitats.

A completely revised and rewritten edition of this comprehensive survey of the botanical problems of pollination ecology approached from both a theoretical and a practical viewpoint.

Following the much acclaimed success of the first volume of Key Topics in Conservation Biology, this entirely new second volume addresses an innovative array of key topics in contemporary conservation biology.

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

Environmental pollution emanating from rapid industrialization, population growth, and urbanization has been considered a major problem in recent years that affects biodiversity, ecosystems, and human health by contaminating soil and water.

The book provides an assessment of whether sustainability is realizable in the current societal framework.

There has been a tremendous increase in interest in the neuropathogenicity of viruses during the past decade as we have come to recognize that the human immunodeficiency virus, which causes the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), can infect glial cells and cause neurological disease.

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

This book aims to provide a comprehensive overview of how climate change affects planetary health and what this means for our collective future.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

The Ecology of Sandy Shores provides the students and researchers with a one-volume resource for understanding the conservation and management of the sandy shore ecosystem.

This edited series has three principal goals.

This book provides a comprehensive, updated syntheses of all the information available on Mar Chiquita, covering various aspects of the geography, geological history, biology and ecology of the site, as well as a detailed analysis of the current land-use patterns, environmental threats, and conservation issues.

Science for the Protection of Indonesian Coastal Ecosystems (SPICE) provides key information on all aspects related to the management of coastal ecosystems.

Why do baby sharks, hyenas, and pelicans kill their siblings?

This monograph examines contemporary environmental challenges facing Nepal, this landlocked country's representativeness in the wider South Asian context is both distinct and generalizable.

Many ecological phenomena may be modelled using apparently random processes involving space (and possibly time).

In the decade following the publication of the first edition of Cellular Biology of the Uterus, advances in this field have been so rapid as to require not merely a revision of the earlier text but an essentially new volume.

Relying on the latest analytical techniques, this all-embracing new reference offers comprehensive coverage of the development, evolution, and morphology of both fossil and living cephalopods.

The problems related to the process of industrialisation such as biodiversity depletion, climate change and a worsening of health and living conditions, especially but not only in developing countries, intensify.

Biogeochemistry-winner of a 2014 Textbook Excellence Award (Texty) from the Text and Academic Authors Association-considers how the basic chemical conditions of the Earth, from atmosphere to soil to seawater, have been and are being affected by the existence of life.

Mycorrhiza will be the focus of research and study for the coming decade.

Algae are important organisms that include seaweeds and a number of single-celled and multicellular microscopic forms.

DeFelice presents this intricate subject in an easy-to-follow, stepwise fashion: he reviews the fundamentals of electricity; transfers those principles to a biological context; and expands the discussion to encompass the subject's practical dimensions.

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

This book presents the definition of aeolian desertification and uncovers its processes, driving factors, and consequences, and focuses on measures to effectively combat aeolian desertification in Northeast Asia.

The population of the Persian leopard (Panthera pardus saxicolor) has drastically declined; this Asian leopard subspecies has disappeared from some parts of its former range.

An authoritative overview of the ecological activities of microbes in the biosphere Environmental Microbiology and Microbial Ecology presents a broad overview of microbial activity and microbes' interactions with their environments and communities.

The report evaluates a White Paper written by restoration planners in South Florida on the role of water flow in restoration plans.

The Central Andean Altiplane represents a unique extreme environment due to its high altitude, closed basins that modulate the salt pans and saline wetlands surrounded by deserts, as well as the considerable influence of volcanic activity.

This book provides in-depth insights into the construction of the first road to reach riparian communities and the main access point to a national park in the Amazonian rain forest.