Biodiversity
by Edward Osborne Wilson and National Academ Smithsonian Institution
Ecological Mapping from Ground, Air and Space
Interactions between species are of fundamental importance to all living systems and the framework we have for studying these interactions is community ecology. This is important to our understanding of the planets biological diversity and how species interactions relate to the functioning of ecosystems at all scales. Species do not live in isolation and the study of community ecology is of practical application in a wide range of conservation issues. The study of ecological community data invo...
Agro-biodiversity and Agri-ecosystem Management
This edited book collates latest findings in the field of agro-biodiversity and agri-ecosystem management across the globe through selected case studies. The primary aim of the book is to cover agro-biodiversity and agri-ecosystem advancements in the field of agricultural resource management. The book explores a range of technologies that support sustainable use of resources and facilities, such as Natural Resource Management (NRM), Resource Conservation Technologies (RCTs), Integrated Farming S...
Global Biodiversity in a Changing Environment (Ecological Studies, #152)
The scientific community has voiced two general concerns about the future of the earth. Firstly, climatologists and oceanographers have focused on the changes in our physical environment, ie climate, oceans, and air. And secondly, environmental biologists have addressed issues of conservation and the extinction of species. There is increasing evidence that these two broad concerns are intertwined and mutually dependent. Past changes in biodiversity have both responded to and caused changes in th...
This volume is dedicated to ethological game theory models. Game theory has played a major role in reshaping the study of animal behavior over the past 30 years. The editors and chapter authors were chosen to give an authoritative but accessible overview of the advances in the area. This book is intended for professionals, graduate students in animal behaviour, ecology and evolutionary biology.
This study contains a critical review of the Swedish producer responsibility legislation related to discarded packaging materials and newspapers, magazines, and selected other kinds of paper waste. The major finding of this analysis is that this legislation is exceedingly inefficient and that it imposes a considerable burden on society for little benefit in terms of environmental improvements. This book endeavors to destroy the romantic notion that recycling is a good thing, of itself a benefit...
Handbook of Water and Wastewater Treatment Technologies (Pollution Engineering / B-H)
by Dr Nicholas P Cheremisinoff
The New Normal
A comprehensive and up-to-date overview of climate change in the Prairie provinces, along with strategies for adapting to the "new normal." The present climate crisis shows no sign of abatement. On the contrary, it is becoming more intense, and there are increasing uncertainties and fears about the outcome of the process of climate transformation. The complexity of this transformation is, to a large extent, a product of the intricate relationships between natural and social systems, both of them...
Insect Resistance Management
Neither pest management nor resistance management can occur with only an understanding of pest biology. For years, entomologists have understood, with their use of economic thresholds, that at least a minimal use of economics was necessary for proper integrated pest management. IRM is even more complicated and dependent on understanding and using socioeconomic factors. The new edition of Insect Resistance Management addresses these issues and much more. Many new ideas, facts and case studies...
A compilation of test methods useful in risk assessment of transgenic plants. It is intended to aid the environmental researcher in finding and comparing relevant methods quickly and easily. It is also suitable as a reference work for those working in plant population biology and genetics. The major processes affecting the fate of plants are covered, with emphasis on invasion, competition and establishment, eg seed dispersal, density-dependent competition, and plant growth. Ecosystem effects and...
Comparative Neurobiology in Chiroptera
by Georg Baron, Heinz Stephan, and Heiko D. Frahm
These are three volumes to study systematically and comprehensively the brain structure in bats. Volume 1 contains comparisions of the macromorphology, main brain components and selected nuclei. The text is complemented by 53 tables, numerous original line drawings and photographs and one atlas of a megachiropteran and one of a microchiropteran brain. Volume 2 deals with the characteristics of brain structure in the taxonomic units and contains a comprehensive survey of the existing literature...
Evolution of Marine Coastal Ecosystems under the Pressure of Global Changes
Coastal and estuarine environments at the interface of terrestrial and marine areas are among the most productive in the world. However, since the beginning of the industrial era, these ecosystems have been subjected to strong anthropogenic pressures intensified from the second half of the 20th century, when there was a marked acceleration in the warming (climate change) of the continents, particularly at high latitudes. Coastal ecosystems are highly vulnerable to alteration of their physical, c...
Mountain Ash
by David Lindenmayer, David Blair, Lachlan McBurney, and Sam Banks
Mountain Ash draws together exciting new findings on the effects of fire and on post-fire ecological dynamics following the 2009 wildfires in the Mountain Ash forests of the Central Highlands of Victoria. The book integrates data on forests, carbon, fire dynamics and other factors, building on 6 years of high-quality, multi-faceted research coupled with 25 years of pre-fire insights. Topics include: the unexpected effects of fires of varying severity on populations of large old trees and their...
The Rivers of Florida (Ecological Studies, vol 83)
Examines the arguments for and against recycling and argues that purely economic approaches to recycling are incomplete and noneconomic values need to be considered as well.
Die Ostsee als groesstes Brackwassermeer der Welt ist zunehmend gefahrdet; die Verschmutzung durch Abwasser und Abfalle nimmt standig zu, ein Durchmischen und Abfliessen aber findet kaum statt. Um dieses noch junge Meer als Lebensraum zu erhalten, ist eine umfassende Analyse und ein standiges UEberwachen der oekologischen Parameter noetig. Renommierte Forscher der grossen Ostseeinstitute beschreiben in der Meereskunde der Ostsee alle wesentlichen Aspekte, die das OEkosystem Ostsee ausmachen, wie...
Landscapes of Promise (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
by William G. Robbins
Landscapes of Promise is the first comprehensive environmental history of the early years of a state that has long been associated with environmental protection. Covering the period from early human habitation to the end of World War II, William Robbins shows that the reality of Oregon's environmental history involves far more than a discussion of timber cutting and land-use planning. Robbins demonstrates that ecological change is not only a creation of modern industrial society. Native America...
Text and illustrations of dinosaur characters introduce the earth's major environmental problems and suggest ways children can help.