Ecological science, the Biosphere

It is two years since a general meeting of the Gesellschaft fur Biologische Chemie first requested us to organize the 21 st Mosbach Colloquium on mammalian reproduction, and one year since we received final authorization to do so.

CONSERVATION BIOGEOGRAPHY The Earth s ecosystems are in the midst of an unprecedented period of change as a result of human action.

Ecology of Coastal Waters with Implications for Management, Second Edition is the most up-to-date book available on coastal marine ecosystems.

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

Food proteins and bioactive peptides play a vital role in the growth and development of the body s structural integrity and regulation, as well as having a variety of other functional properties.

This book introduces community science (or citizen science) projects in Japan with a focus on ecology.

stable isotope ratios act as naturally-occurring tracers for organic matter, making possible, under certain conditions, the quantification of coastal-offshore exchanges.

Advances in Agronomy, Volume 167, the latest release in this leading reference on agronomy, contains a variety of updates and highlights new advances in the field.

Forest Analytics with R combines practical, down-to-earth forestry data analysis and solutions to real forest management challenges with state-of-the-art statistical and data-handling functionality.

This book outlines the development of renewable energies in the Middle East and North Africa, it offers up-to-date information about their variability, availability and utilization, and serves as a guide for understanding the MENA renewable energy potential.

This book presents a selection of the best papers submitted to the International Ecocity World Summit held in Vancouver, October 7-11, 2019.

Wildlife researchers and ecologists make widespread use of multivariate statistics in their studies.

A how-to book on an exhilarating outdoor activity and a unique meditation on the pleasures of the natural worldFollowing the Wild Bees is a delightful foray into the pastime of bee hunting, an exhilarating outdoor activity that used to be practiced widely but which few people know about today.

This edited volume is an extensive collection of methods for investigating plant litter dynamics in ecosystems.

The past decade has seen a steady increase in studies oflemur behavior and ecology.

Medicinal plant research is an evergreen subject.

From 1965 through 1975, I conducted an extensive field and laboratory research project on thermophilic microorganisms.

A comprehensive guide to the calls of the 44 species of bat currently known to occur in Europe.

The New Naturalist editors believe this to be the greatest general work on the subject ever written.

The value of studies of monotypic populations is constantly argued in bacterial ecology.

Thorough, detailed, and scientifically up-to-date, Prairies: A Natural History provides a comprehensive nontechnical guide to the biology and ecology of the prairies, or the Great Plains grasslands of North America, offering a view of the past, a vision for the future, and a clear focus on the present.

This history of one of the most contentious educational issues in America examines bilingual instruction in the United States from the common school era to the recent federal involvement in the 1960s and 1970s.

A comprehensive, clear, and detailed guide to procedures for conducting marine ecological field studies Marine Ecological Field Methods is a comprehensive resource that offers the most relevant sampling methodologies for quantitative and qualitative studies of mesopelagic, demersal, littoral, and soft-bottom organisms, as well as relevant physical parameters.

The publication of this volume of The Viruses entitled The Togaviridae and Flaviviridae comes at an appropriate time.

This contributed volume focuses on the latest innovations in the field of marine microbiology.

The prirnates that provide the central theme of these studies by David Chivers and his colleagues are the dominant large herbi- vores of the tropical evergreen rain forest.

Exogenous Priming and Engineering of Plant Metabolic and Regulatory Genes: Stress Mitigation Strategies in Plants provides insights into metabolic adjustment, their regulation, and the regulatory networks involved in plants responding to stress situations.

This book focus on creating popularity and interest in modeling, derivation of equations for plant disease forecasting or construction and use of Web-based Expert Systems among plant pathologists.

This volume was created initially from a symposium of the same name presented at the International Primatological Society's XVIII Congress in Adelaide.

This compendium is the result of the FEMS Workshop on "e;Rapid Diagnosis of Mycoplasmas"e; which I organized and which took place in Jerusalem, Israel, August 11-23, 1991.

This book contains a wide compendium of information, which includes algal culture basics and the newest scientific and industrial advances in microalgal applications, including traditional uses such as renewable energy biofuels, wastewater treatment, edible products, aquaculture and livestock production.

This Handbook, first published in 2005, provides standard procedures for planning and conducting a survey of any species or habitat and for evaluating the data.

An essential guide for graduates, researchers and professionals to spatial analysis and the fast-growing range of methods available.

Building on more than a decade of innovative research into multi-source forest inventory (MS-NFI) this book presents full details of the development, outputs and applications of the improved k-NN method.

Land conversion, climate change and species invasions are contributing to the widespread emergence of novel ecosystems, which demand a shift in how we think about traditional approaches to conservation, restoration and environmental management.

Regions of the world with greatest biodiversity are shown to exhibit greatest linguistic diversity, strongly suggesting that the relationship between language and ecology is both symbiotic and spatially and temporally determined.

Despite decades of developments in immunization and drug therapy, tuberculosis remains among the leading causes of human mortality, and no country has successfully eradicated the disease.

This book illustrates the value of reproductive sciences in the management and conservation of wildlife species.

Readers familiar with the first three editions of Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates (edited by J.

The main goal of this book is to encourage and formalize the infusion of evolutionary thinking into mainstream conservation biology.

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology provides detailed review articles concerned with aspects of chemical contaminants, including pesticides, in the total environment with toxicological considerations and consequences.

This book is a comprehensive collection of information about the features, functions, and services of aquatic macrophytes.

Forest Degradation and Management - An Indian Perspective provides an overview of the dynamics and challenges surrounding forest degradation in India.

This edited volume documents the current nature conservation status of arable habitats in Europe.

Despite claims to the contrary, the science of ecology has a long history of building theories.

Telling people about research is just as important as doing it.