Ecological science, the Biosphere

This book highlights the common ground between biomedicine and traditional healing.

This book examines civil society's peacebuilding role in sub-Saharan Africa in the contextof climate change and the pursuit of environmental peace and justice in the Anthropocene.

This book is intended as an introductory text for students studying a wide range of courses concerned with animal management, zoo biology and wildlife conservation, and should also be useful to zookeepers and other zoo professionals.

Recent scientific literature has raised many concerns about whether fisheries have caused more extensive changes to marine populations and ecosystems than previously realized or predicted.

This book delves into microbial production and its implications for various industries and presents the latest advancements in the field of bioactive compound production by microorganisms.

This book reveals the benefits of describing and modeling trees as the combined surface areas of their stems, and provides a concise overview of the fundamental grounds for adopting such an approach.

The oceans cover about 72 percent of our planet (which is named for the remaining 28 percent).

Raptors are popular and iconic birds, and are important ecologically, with some species listed as threatened.

Advance in barley sciences presents the latest developments in barley sciences.

Die konkreten gesellschaftlichen Folgen des Klimawandels sind sehr unsicher und nicht vorhersagbar.

The dazzling variation in plant chemistry is a primary mediator of trophic interactions, including herbivory, predation, parasitism, and disease.

The book provides an overview relevant to various biological mechanisms that regulate carbon exchanges between the major components and their response to climate change.

Volume 19 in this prestigious series is the second under the new editorial team and benefits once again from their own special interests.

Plants and Climate Change focuses on how climate affects or affected the biosphere and vice versa both in the present and past.

"e;Carlsen sees a world of wonder hiding in plain sight and may just change how you look at the world around you.

This edited book is comprised of original research that focuses on technological advancements for effective teaching with an emphasis on learning outcomes, ICT trends in higher education, sustainable developments and digital ecosystem in education, management and industries.

This book documents analyses of the Late Cretaceous dinosaur nesting sites of the Lameta Formation at Jabalpur, Districts Dhar and Jhabua, Madhya Pradesh; Districts Kheda and Panchmahal (Gujarat); and the Pisdura, Dongargaon and Pavna sectors in the Chandrapur Districts of Maharashtra, which are exposed in India along an east-west and central axis.

An overview of the wide range of spatial statistics available to analyse ecological data.

Birds of Prey of the West and its companion volume, Birds of Prey of the East, are the most comprehensive and authoritative field guides to North American birds of prey ever published.

Chemische Substanzen in der Umwelt sind vielfältigen chemischen Reaktionen und Transportvorgängen unterworfen.

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This book empirically discusses recent struggles over land and mining, exploring state-society relations conflicts on various scales.

Understanding the current state and dynamics of any forest is extremely difficult - if not impossible - without recognizing its history.

This book presents advanced knowledge on the relationships between climate change and agriculture, and various adaptation techniques such as low tillage, salt-adapted beneficial microbes and closed systems.

This book bridges natural, physical and social sciences to show how ecosystem ecology can inform the ecosystem services approach to environmental management.

This encyclopaedia is unique in the sense that it presents contemporary ecology and environment in a chronological order for the first timer Not only it helps trace the process of evolution of regulatory framework for the global and national environmental legislations, it helps the readers to evaluate the development of national environmental consciousness vis-a vis the international one.

As part of its efforts to improve fertilizer use and efficiency in West Africa, and following the recent adoption of the West African fertilizer recommendation action plan (RAP) by ECOWAS, this volume focuses on IFDC's technical lead with key partner institutions and experts to build on previous and current fertilizer recommendations for various crops and countries in West Africa for wider uptake by public policy makers and fertilizer industry actors.

With improved microscope and preparation techniques, studies of histo- logical structures of plant organisms experienced a revival of interest at the end of the 19th century.

Resulting from a Royal Society discussion meeting, this volume presents a short review of the topic of parasite-host co-evolution.

The period since World War II, and especially the last decade influenced by the International Biological Program, has seen enormous growth in research on the function of ecosystems.

This contributed volume covers the applications of marine biotechnology for food, drugs and energy production using marine resources.

Islands are special places; they can be havens for unique plants and animals and refuges for wildlife.

The 2nd international tagging and tracking symposium was held in San Sebastian, Spain, in October 2007, seven years after the first symposium was held in Hawaii in 2000 (Sibert and Nielsen 2001).

The Effective Ecologist covers the stuff that no-one told you about at university - how to develop your office-related and business skills to succeed in your career as a professional ecologist.

Phenomorphology of flowering plants deals with starts growing, how long it grows and what happens the study of temporal changes in the morphology of to it when it stops growing.

The papers in this volume were presented at the Symposium on Steroid Hormone Receptor Systems held October 18-20, 1978, at the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology, Shrewsbury, Mass.

Tropical island species and ecosystems are threatened worldwide as a result of increasing human pressure.

The role of parasites and pathogens in the evolution of life history traits is of increasing interest to both ecologists and evolutionary biologists.

In recent decades it has become increasingly urgent to protect human health and wellbeing from the possible negative consequences of man's economic activities, both at the actual production sites and in areas where the im- pact is felt.

This book introduces the concept of 'biological weathering.

In an effort to implement conservation measures farmers have used a variety of production methods, including the use of reduced or zero tillage and cover crops.

This handbook defines the contours of environmental sociology and invites readers to push boundaries in their exploration of this important subdiscipline.

This book collects information on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, especially from the agro-ecosystems.

The contents of this volume involve selection, emendation and up-dating of papers presented at the NATO Conference "e;Mathe- matical Analysis of Decision problems in Ecology"e; in Istanbul, Turkey, July 9-13, 1973.

Eine fortschreitende Fragmentierung der Kulturlandschaft in Mitteleuropa führte und führt zu einer zunehmenden Isolation der verbleibenden Lebensräume für heimische Tier- und Pflanzenarten.

The present book includes the papers covering the introduction of ecosystems, ecological features, ecological factors, propagation areas of ecosystems, the ecosystems, the vegetation, the tropical rain forest landscape, paleoecology of high mountains, and global environmental prospects, The book gives an insight and understanding of the ecosystem and the causes of environmental degradation.

The book in your hands is a collection of papers delivered at the II International Conference "e;Ecosystems Without Borders: Opportunities and Challenges"e; held at Kaliningrad State Technical University in February 2023.

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