Proceedings of the Green Economics Institute's, 1st Ever Biodiversity Conference 2014
by Miriam Kennet, Anna Wainer, and Odeta Grabauskaite
Farmers' Bounty: Locating Crop Diversity in the Contemporary World (Yale Agrarian Studies)
by Professor Stephen B Brush
Biodiversity of Coral Reefs (Biodiversity - Macmillan Library) (Biodiversity)
by Greg Pyers
"Discusses the variety of living things in a coral reef's ecosystem"--Provided by publisher.
Der bedeutende Chirurg, Ernst von Bergmann (1836-1907), besonders bekannt für die operative Säuberung großer Wund gebiete ("Wundtoilette"), hat vor Sanitätsoffizieren der Militärärztlichen Bildungsanstalten in Berlin am 2. Aug. 1883 eine Rede gehalten, bei welcher er kritisch zu Erfahrungen über Bluttransfusionen beim Menschen Stellung nimmt . . . "je weniger man vom Blute wußte, um so mehr sah man in ihm die Kraft, welche alle und jede Eigentümlichkeit wie Äußerung des Lebens bestimmt und scha...
Biodiversity Research, Bioprospecting and Commercialization (People and Plants International Conservation)
by Sarah A. Laird and Rachel Wynberg
The access and benefit-sharing (ABS) policy process of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), and wider discussions about the ethical and conservation issues arising from the commercial use of biodiversity and traditional knowledge, depend upon a well-developed understanding of the activities known broadly as 'bioprospecting'. However, the pace at which our understanding of genetic and other biological resources is accelerating, and market and industry trends are also undergoing constant...
Restoration ecology is a vital tool to mitigate the crisis caused by the global destruction of biodiversity, one of the most powerful existential threats to future generations. Johnny Armstrong's Rescuing Biodiversity tells the story of one man's attempts to preserve a vanishing Louisiana ecosystem and restore the animal and plant species that once lived there. As a grandfather and perpetual student, Armstrong witnessed the speed at which the timber industry pillaged local landscapes, and he re...
Agrodiversity
Through generations of innovation and experiment, smallholder farms (cultivated pieces of land smaller than 50 acres) have nurtured a rich diversity of both wild and domestic plants and animals. While most academic literature emphasizes the accelerated loss of biodiversity, this book describes how large numbers of smallholder farmers are conserving biodiversity in their farmland and surrounds. Based on the fieldwork of the United Nations University Project on People, Land Management, and Environ...
Galway's Living Landscapes
by R. Hennessy, Claire L. Carlin, C. Cunniffe, B. Feeney, B. Gormally, M. Mannion, Martin Feely, E. O'Riordan, and M. Sheehy-Skeffington
Biology and Its Relation to Mankind, V2
by A M Winchester and B J Kaston
On the Genesis of Species. with illustrations (Life Science Books)
by Mivart St George
Most textbooks on measuring terrestrial vegetation have focused on the characteristics of biomass, cover, and the density or frequency of dominant life forms (trees, shrubs, grasses, and forbs), or on classifying, differentiating, or evaluating and monitoring dominant plant communities based on a few common species. Sampling designs for measuring species richness and diversity, patterns of plant diversity, species-environment relationships, and species distributions have received less attention....
Information and Communication Technologies for Biodiversity Conservation and Agriculture
Conserving Our Natural Heritage
by Mieke Mullyaert and Dominic Berridge
An award-winning journalist, aquatic ecologist, and lifelong fisherman tells for the first time the surprising story of the rainbow trout, a revered icon for some and an all-too-common vexation for others Anders Halverson provides an exhaustively researched and grippingly rendered account of the rainbow trout and why it has become the most commonly stocked and controversial freshwater fish in the United States. Discovered in the remote waters of northern California, rainbow trout have been artif...
Freshwater Biodiversity in the Irish Agricultural Landscape: The Significance of Ponds (STRIVE Report, #80)