Ecological science, the Biosphere

When we offered to host the 5th International Symposium on Trichoptera in Lyon in July 1986, we knew that for us the great Adventure was about to begin.

This book gathers older and current knowledge of the evolution and functioning of cuesta landscapes to provide a better understanding of the Luxembourgian landscape.

This book provides comparative data on fish ecology and small-scale fisheries between Tapajos (clear water) and Negro (black water) rivers, in the Brazilian Amazon.

Microbial communities and their functions play a crucial role in the management of ecological, environmental and agricultural health on the Earth.

This book conducts research on the evaluation and reduction mechanism of the negative effects of urban Transportation Energy Supply Network (TESN).

This book addresses the core tenets, logic, methodology and practice of Xi Jinping's thoughts on ecological civilization.

The oil crisis during the 1970s turned interest towards the utilization of renewable resources and towards lignocellulosics in particular.

California's Bay-Delta estuary is a biologically diverse estuarine ecosystem that plays a central role in the distribution of California's water from the state's wetter northern regions to its southern, arid, and populous cities and agricultural areas.

This book presents and summarizes the new thoughts, new methods and new achievements that have emerged in the biotechnology of lignocellulose in recent years.

Toxic substances threatens aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems and ultimately human health.

The Gashaka Primate Project has grown into one of the largest research and conservation activities in West Africa.

Until recently, the phenomenal economic development of the Asian tigers, Chile, and Malaysia, as well as the sustained economic growth of the United States, painted a very desirable and optimistic picture of free markets, fiscal responsibility, and, more generally, the entire dogma of neoclassical economics.

This book is a compilation of the research which was presented during the NATO-Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) entitled "e;Advances in Bacterial Paracrystalline Surface Layers"e; held in London, Ontario, Canada during September 27 to 30, 1992.

This book puts together all aspects of valorization of vegetable and fruit wastes (VFWs) into different biocommodities and platform chemicals using fermentation and non-fermentation processes.

This volume brings together the geological, geomorphological and ecological aspects of Japan's natural heritage, arguing for dynamic conservation of such heritage and explaining their key characteristics in an accessible format for general readers.

To assess the social processes of globalization that are changing the way in which we co-inhabit the world today, this book invites the reader to essay the diversity of worldviews, with the diversity of ways to sustainably co-inhabit the planet.

Biodiversity is the delicate ecological balance within biological systems such as species and populations.

This image atlas and reference book is written in simple language that can be understood by a broad audience.

Landscape pattern is generated by a variety of processes, including disturbances.

Knowledge of bat echolocation and social calls, and identification using ultrasonic 'bat detectors' and sound analysis software, has grown significantly in the last decade.

The aim of this book is to present, in depth, updated information on soil and microbial processes involved in mixed plantations of Eucalyptus and N2-fixing species, especially Acacia mangium, focusing on Forestry, Soils, Biology, Ecosystem Services and Sustainability.

This book consists of a series of papers that help to unravel the taxonomy of the phylum Brachiopoda and describe associated marine communities in the Levant.

This book provides both the conceptual basis and technological tools that are necessary to identify and solve problems related to biodiversity governance.

Is the Earth the right model and the only universal key to understand habitability, the origin and maintenance of life?

The Galápagos Islands are one of the world’s premiere nature attractions, home to unique ecosystems widely thought to be untouched and pristine.

This entirely updated second edition provides an overview on the biology, ecology and biodiversity of extremophiles.

This book introduces readers to nearly 600 common weeds.

This book is devoted to strengthening the theoretical and methodological basis, systematization of international experience, and scientific elaboration of prospects for developing a climate-smart economy and business as a vector of the sustainable development of Industry 4.

This book offers a new explanation for the development of flight in mammals and offers detailed morphological descriptions of mammals with flapping flight.

This book is a focussed and up-to-date review about the key challenges, trends, implications, strategies, and ways of overcoming, that dynamic and competitive organizations are facing now and increasingly in future by climate change.

Dieses Lehrbuch behandelt zentrale naturphilosophische Probleme, die durch Theorien der modernen Naturwissenschaften aufgeworfen werden.

This book gathers older and current knowledge of the evolution and functioning of cuesta landscapes to provide a better understanding of the Luxembourgian landscape.

This textbook introduces readers to basic scientific principles of climate change.

This colourful textbook introduces students to conservation biology, the science of preserving biodiversity.

This book provides cutting-edge scientific idea and novel concepts on the ecosystem-based approach to fisheries management.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of innovative biosystems engineering for sustainable agriculture, forestry and food production.

This book details theexperiences gained by the Catalan Water Agency (ACA) in a Mediterraneanwatershed the Catalan River Basin District following the launch of the EUWater Framework Directive (WFD) in the year 2000.

How Plants Communicate with Their Biotic Environment addresses how plants perceive the presence of organisms (other plants, microbes, insects and nematodes) living in their proximity, how they manage to be attractive when these organisms are friendly, and how they defend themselves from foes.

Functional and Phylogenetic Ecology in R is designed to teach readers to use R for phylogenetic and functional trait analyses.

Considers the influence of wind, fire and grazing on forest dynamics.

This work analyzes the effects of one of the most dramatic changes of entire societies that the world has ever witnessed.

Worldwide concern in scientific, industrial, and governmental com- munities over traces of toxic chemicals in foodstuffs and in both abiotic and biotic environments has justified the present triumvirate of specialized publications in this field: comprehensive reviews, rapidly published progress reports, and archival documentations.

Connects river sciences to queer and trans theory through collaborative restoration workRivers host vibrant multispecies communities in their waters and along their banks, and, according to queer-trans-feminist river scientist Cleo Wlfle Hazard, their future vitality requires centering the values of justice, sovereignty, and dynamism.

This book focuses on China's efforts to address climate change on both the strategic and practical levels since the Katowice Climate Change Conference.