Ecology category: 3266 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
A groundbreaking new book, Still the Same Hawk: Reflections on Nature and New York brings into conversation diverse and intriguing perspectives on the relationship between nature and America's most prominent city. The volume's title derives from a telling observation in Robert Sullivan's contribution...
Mangrove Ecosystems: A Global Biogeographic Perspective
Structure, Function, and Services
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
This book presents a comprehensive overview and analysis of mangrove ecological processes, structure, and function at the local, biogeographic, and global scales and how these properties interact to provide key ecosystem services to society. The analysis is based on an international collaborative...
Rice Planthoppers
Ecology, Management, Socio Economics and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
The book discusses planthopper pests of rice. These insects are one of the most destructive pests, threatening food security around the world. The historical development of the rice planthopper problem shows that they are secondary pests and single-discipline control tactics or strategies were not...
Flowering Plants. Eudicots
Sapindales, Cucurbitales, Myrtaceae
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010
This volume, the tenth in the series, comprises modern treatments for the families and genera of the eudicot orders Sapindales and Cucurbitales. The circumscription of the orders, families and genera conforms to the most recent systematic studies. The family treatments include descriptions of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
This text provides both review and primary research articles for a broad audience of biologists, chemists, biochemists, pharmacologists, clinicians and nutrition experts, especially those interested in the biosynthesis, structure, function and/or bioactivity of plant natural products. Recurring themes...
A Sense of Wonder Towards Nature
Healing the Planet through Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
Environmental scientist and writer Haydn Washington argues that we will not solve the environmental crisis unless we change our worldview and ethics, and to do so we must rejuvenate our sense of wonder at nature.
This book focuses on humanity’s relation with nature, and the sense of wonder...
Still Waters
Fragments of Nature & Place
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2017
Some of the author’s most evocative writing on nature and place. From observations on the incredible partnership that is lichen to the amazing ecosystem of the Cornish hedge; the folklore of seals to the story of the American Bison. Travel with the author deep into the daily life of a...
by Rowan F. Sage, Russell K. Monson
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 1998
Due to many issues related to long-term carbon dynamics, an improved understanding of the biology of C4 photosynthesis is required by more than the traditional audience of crop scientists, plant physiologists, and plant ecologists. This work synthesizes the latest developments in C4 biochemistry,...
by Kamal H. Batanouny
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Usually authors write introductions for their books, although they know that not many readers will read it. Despite this, authors insist on writing an introduction and no publisher will publish a book without one. I would like to inform my dear readers that I have spent almost all of the first quarter...
Ants of Africa and Madagascar
A Guide to the Genera
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Across the Afrotropical and Malagasy regions, ants are one of the most conspicuous and ecologically dominant animal groups. From driver ants to weaver ants, there are over 2,000 species in Africa alone and over 600 in Madagascar.
Ants of Africa and Madagascar introduces readers to the fascinating...
Faunal Heritage of Rajasthan, India
General Background and Ecology of Vertebrates
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
This is the first ever monumental and scientific documentation of the faunal wealth of the Indian Desert state of Rajasthan. This volume, the first of two, provides background on Rajasthan and covers species diversity and distribution of fauna. A scholarly contribution to the field of knowledge, it...
Biodiversity Conservation Using Umbrella Species
Blakiston's Fish Owl and the Red-crowned Crane
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
This book focuses on Blakiston’s fish owl and the red-crowned crane as umbrella species. Healthy river, riparian and wetland ecosystems are necessary to maintain the populations of the two species. Both species have been revered by people since ancient times, but both are currently listed as endangered...
Lake Victoria Fisheries Resources
Research and Management in Tanzania
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
This book synthesises the historical trends of the lake fisheries, the lake ecology, biology and biodiversity, socio-economics, stock assessment, aquaculture, fish quality assurance, environmental quality and management of the fisheries resources.
The evolution of fisheries in Lake Victoria...
Biodiversity in Drylands
Toward a Unified Framework
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2004
Biodiversity in Drylands, the first internationally based synthesis volume in the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network Series, unifies the concepts of species and landscape diversity with respect to deserts. Within this framework, the book treats several emerging themes, among them: · how...