Biodiversity

The state of São Paulo, Brazil, is one of the most densely populated and developed areas in South America. Such development is evident both in term...

Freshwater ecosystems have the greatest species diversity per unit area and many endangered species. This book shows that, rather than being a marg...

The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) study is a major international initiative drawing attention to local, national and global econo...

This book begins with the principal subject of biodiversity in agriculture. The onslaught of highly soil extractive chemical farming, euphemistical...

This unique reference book represents sustainable development of UN for providing a proper life standard and mobility for people. The 17 sustainabl...

Restoration ecology is a vital tool to mitigate the crisis caused by the global destruction of biodiversity, one of the most powerful existential t...

This book examines urban water ecosystem management and restoration through selected case studies in Asia and Africa. Employing a socioecological a...

The book offers a comparative look at the social strategies of five carnivorous social predators (four terrestrial and one marine) that make them s...

CHOICE Highly Recommended title, 2022!Forest insects play important roles ecologically and economically. They pollinate plants, decompose dead plan...

Bees are flying insects of the order Hymenoptera closely related to wasps and ants. The ancestors of bees are assumed to be predatory wasps, which ...

CHOICE Highly Recommended title, 2022!Forest insects play important roles ecologically and economically. They pollinate plants, decompose dead plan...

This book provides an integrated description of the indicators of rangeland sustainability that capture ecological, economic, and social dimensions...

Modern Fisheries Engineering: Realizing a Healthy and Sustainable Marine Ecosystem is a compendium of the latest and most cutting-edge information ...

San Diego Bay is a shallow estuary surrounded by a large population center. Geological forces and changes in sea levels from the last Ice Age combi...

Key features:Presents a brief history of past classifications, a summary of present classification, and speculation on how the classification may e...

Aquatic plants play a critically important role in maintaining ecosystem health. They are natural biological filters in freshwater and estuarine we...

Agriculture transforms the environment. The simplification of agroecosystems structure increases the hazards of leaching, wind and water erosion, a...

The Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, adopted on 15 October 2010 in Nagoy...

Scattered like dots rising from the deep across vast expanses of the worlds tropical and subtropical oceans, atolls with their turquoise lagoons an...

Suppose you were designing a marine mammal. What would they need to live in the ocean? How would you keep them warm? What design features would all...

This book correlates the vast genetic diversity associated with environmental samples and still underexploited potential for the development of bio...

Trees and plants are important components of the human environment having significant presence beyond agricultural and recreational values. Colour ...