Ecological science, the Biosphere

Over the last decades, scientists have been intrigued by the fascinating organisms that inhabit extreme environments.

This book is the first comprehensive account of the modern Kenya Rift Valley lakes and their precursor lakes preserved in the sedimentary record.

This book studies the low-carbon transformation path of the automotive industry.

Although, the first edition had a similar focus, more than five years have passed since its publication and the biological and social circumstances of the lake have drastically changed due to, for example, the further expansion of alien species, the decrease of indigenous species, the progress of integrated watershed management by the Union of the Kansai Government which was established in 2010, the legislation of the Conservation and Restoration Act of Lake Biwa in 2015 and more.

Advances in Agronomy, Volume 153, the latest release in this comprehensive series, continues its recognition as a leading, first-rate source for the latest research in agronomy.

Advances in Agronomy, Volume 154 continues the legacy of this leading series and first-rate source for the latest research in agronomy.

The book contains papers on the biology of aquatic oligochaetes and some related groups.

Phase transitions--changes between different states of organization in a complex system--have long helped to explain physics concepts, such as why water freezes into a solid or boils to become a gas.

THE EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGIES THAT SHAPE ECOSYSTEMS In 1837 a young Charles Darwin took his notebook, wrote I think , and then sketched a rudimentary, stick-like tree.

'a true gem' -London Naturalist'I love this book' Nick BakerThe author completes the book with an identification guide to dung itself, so that you can identify the animal that left it behind.

This book constitutes a key reference on the use of algae in the biopharmaceuticals production field; providing an updated outlook on the achievements accomplished thus far and transmitting a prospective view for this biotechnological application.

In recognising an urgent need to move beyond case studies and develop a conceptual synthesis, the scope of this volume is broad, covering the principal elements of both the invasion process and human responses to seaweed invasions.

Advances in Botanical Research publishes in-depth and up-to-date reviews on a wide range of topics in plant sciences.

Comprehensive introductory textbook for students and specialists in ecology, environmental science, and chemistry.

This book provides a broad overview of how the promotion of ocean and coastal literacy is being planned, applied and evaluated in Brazil, a country of continental dimensions with a great diversity of cultural, educational and social realities.

Over forty years ago, concern was first focussed on cadmium contamination of soils, fertilisers and the food chain.

University Coeducation in the Victorian Era chronicles the inclusion of women in state-supported male universities during the nineteenth century.

Despite their rich fossil history, there are only four surviving species of sirenians or sea cows, the only fully aquatic herbivorous mammals.

Advances in Botanical Research

What was our planet like before the advent of our modern civilization?

This book explores various aspects of thermophilic and halophilic microbes from Eurasian ecosystems, which have proved to offer a unique reservoir of genetic diversity and biological source of extremophiles.

This book introduces the concept of bacterial communication systems from a mathematical modeling point of view.

This book mainly focuses on ecological approaches for preventing and controlling non-point source (NPS) pollution on the basis of forestry measures.

This book aims to be a comprehensive review of the literature on the conservation genetics of the New World crocodilians, from the biological and demographical aspects of the living species to the application of molecular techniques for conservation purposes.

The book provides an accessible introduction to the core concepts of nanotechnology, the interactions between plants and nanoparticles, and the basic techniques for delivering nanoparticles to plant systems.

This book focuses on the indirect effects on environmental resilience.

This book provides an accessible overview of how efforts to combat climate change and social inequalities should be tackled simultaneously.

Trapped between the caricatured causalities of biological determinism and the sinister abdications of sociological relativism, socio-ecological interdisciplinarity stagnates.

Synthesizes the latest developments in the ecology and evolution of animal parasites for a new generation of parasitologists.

An ecosystem's complexity develops from the vast numbers of species interacting in ecological communities.

The authoritative overviews in this volume provide a wealth of practical information on current approaches to the study of insect-plant interactions.

Great Salt Lake is an enormous terminal lake in the western United States.

Forest stands are thinned all over the world.

The impetus for this volume comes from two sources.

This book covers the latest advances in sustainable waste management and focuses on its implementation to mitigate water and air pollution, recycle and reuse raw material, and refine valuable metals.

A global synthesis of the impacts of wildfires and controlled burning on insects, bringing together much hitherto scattered information to provide a guide to improved conservation management practice.

This book is an introduction to mathematical biology for students with no experience in biology, but who have some mathematical background.

This book presents definitions, key concepts and projects in landscape research and related areas, such as landscape science and landscape ecology, addressing and characterising the international role, status, challenges, future and tools of landscape research in the globalised world of the 21st century.

This book develops and applies an integrated socio-economic assessment of multi-use offshore platforms in European marine locations.

Nature and Identity in Cross-Cultural Perspective presents 20 essays which explore diverse cultural interpretations of the earth's surface.

This monograph provides a summary of the basic theory of branching processes for single-type and multi-type processes.

This book is based on an international meeting organized by the University of Tokyo and the University of Rochester, and is published as one belonging to the series of Rochester International Conferences in Environmental Toxicity.

An updated text exploring the properties of the soil microbial community Today, the environmentally oriented specialties of microbiology are shifting from considering a single or a few microbial species to focusing on the entire microbial community and its interactions.

This is the first comprehensive book focusing on the form and function of insect mouthparts.

The oceans are shrinking.

The vast majority of the world's lakes are small in size and short lived in geological terms.

This book contains a selection of papers presented at the Advanced Research Workshop on 'The Socio-economic causes and consequences of desertification in Central Asia' held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, in June 2006.