Ecological science, the Biosphere

Lake Plusee is a small eutrophic kettle lake in northern Germany.

The NATO Advanced Research Workshop, "e;Decision Support for Natural Disasters and Intentional Threats to Water Security"e; was the result of close collaboration between environmental, security, water resource, and health officials in the United States and Croatia.

Biological and Environmental Hazards, Risks, and Disasters, Second Edition provides an integrated look at major impacts to the Earth's biosphere caused by diseases, algal blooms, insects, animals, species extinction, deforestation, land degradation, and comet and asteroid strikes, with important implications for humans.

This unique book offers a comprehensive guide to the fascinating world of polystomatid flatworms.

This book offers a comprehensive review devoted exclusively to slate as dimension stone.

In 1980, Nagra, the Swiss National Cooperative for the Storage of Radioactive Waste, began a comprehensive field investigation programme to assess the feasibility and safety of a repository for the final disposal of high-level radioactive waste in northern Switzerland.

This book comprises studies that reflect on various influences of excessive tourism development in protected areas, and solutions designed and initiated to mitigate such challenges.

In Naturschutzgebieten geschieht vieles, das auf den ersten Blick widersprüchlich ist.

Conservation and biodiversity of protists The conservation of biodiversity is not just an issue of plants and vertebrates.

This book describes how psychiatric pharmaceuticals, namely antidepressants, anxiolytics, sedatives and hypnotics are among the most prescribed active substances due to the higher occurrence of psychiatric disorders throughout the world.

This book attempts to move the family of squirrels (Sciuridae) out of the shadow of large charismatic mammals and to highlight management failures with the goal of moving towards an improved conservation approach.

An enduring controversy in evolutionary biology is the genetic basis of adaptation.

If humans are to understand and discover ways of addressing complex social and ecological problems, we first need to find intimacy with our particular places and communities.

Sound is almost always around us, anywhere, at any time, reaching our ears and stimulating our brains for better or worse.

The Proceedings of the 19th International Seaweed Symposium provides an invaluable reference to a wide range of fields in applied phycology.

In 1968 when I forsook horticulture and plant physiology to try, with the help of Sea Grant funds, wetland ecology, it didn't take long to discover a slim volume published in 1959 by the University of Georgia and edited by R.

In the preface to the softcover edition of this book in 1989, we stated: Since the publication of the first edition of this book, landscape ecology has made great strides.

Bringing together the latest methodological and scientific progress in the various research areas in the field of Environmental Genomics, this book discusses the characterization of the structure and dynamics of life, the study of the evolution and adaptation of genes and genomes, the analysis of degraded and/or old DNA, and the functional and genomic ecology of populations and communities.

Social Forestry and its most well-known variant, Community Forestry, have been practiced almost as long as people have used forests.

Much of the ecological research in the past decades has focused on rural or wilderness areas.

East Asia, with its large, fast-growing population and rapid industrialization, is an important area for global environmental problems, both in terms of the generation of greenhouse gases and the effects of any change in crop yields.

This edited volume summarizes multidisciplinary work on wildlife conservation in the Tarangire Ecosystem of northern Tanzania.

Techniques for Wildlife Investigations emphasizes the design of field studies and the statistical inferences that can be made from observed changes in animal abundance and populations.

This book addresses the fundamental issues of predator-prey interactions, with an emphasis on predation among arthropods, which have been better studied, and for which the database is more extensive than for the large and rare vertebrate predators.

Natural and constructed wetlands play a very important role within the landscape and their ecological services are highly valuable.

This book explores spatiotemporal analysis and impact assessment of agricultural drought in China and investigates the correlation coefficient between meteorological drought and agricultural drought.

The focus of this book is on the more than 2000 caves of the Greenbrier Valley of West Virginia of which the 14 with lengths greater than 10 km have an aggregate length of 639 km.

The book presents an analysis of the ecological, economic and social threats posed by the introduction and spread of non-native species.

This book reviews the latest research on innovative and sustainable biotechnologies for metal recovery from various process streams, emphasising the fundamentals and applications of biosystems.

As cities grow and climates change, precipitation increases, and with every great storm-from record-breaking Boston blizzards to floods in Houston-come buckets of stormwater and a deluge of problems.

Topical review of the role of extinction in evolution for students and researchers.

The ever-increasing population and the associated anthropogenic activities have imparted an adverse impact on the environment, resulting in an escalating pollution crisis and forcing the advancement of sustainable, green, and eco-friendly technologies.

What significance do gendered discourse structures have for the state identity of India and the EU when it comes to their respective climate policies?

Industrial Waste Water Management

Amphibians by virtue of their thin, moist, permeable skins are poorly protected from harsh environments and are especially susceptible to chemical changes, desiccation, and alteration of their habitat.

As concerns about humankind's relationship with the environment move inexorably up the agenda, this volume tells the story of the history of the concept of ecology itself and adds much to the historical and philosophical debate over this multifaceted discipline.

The book is a civil engineering handbook on winch and cable systems.

The world needs clean and renewable energy and hydrogen represents an almost ideal resource.

World population is increasing at an alarming rate and this has resulted in increasing tremendously the demand for tree products such as wood for construction materials, fuel and paper, fruits, oils and medicines etc.

This book argues that evolution arises from the activities of organisms as agents, not from the replication of genes.

This volume represents a series of papers presented at the Second International Workshop on HPV Immunology held at the University of Cambridge July 5-7 1993.

The ecology of world vegetation is described in numer- all of the drafting and photographic work.

The series Tasks for Vegetation Science is devoted to a variety of research aspects in vegetation science, pure as wellas applied.