Biodiversity

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 ...

Bringing together a wealth of knowledge, the Handbook of Environmental Management, Second Edition, gives a comprehensive overview of environmental ...

This book is dedicated to the spiky little freshwater ruffian known better as the ruffe, pope, 'tommy ruffe' and other local names. A fascinating l...

This book is divided into three thematic areas. The first covers a revision of the taxonomy of algae, based on the algae portal, as well as the gen...

The extreme microbiomes are those microorganisms thriving under extreme conditions where no other living being will have any chance to survive. The...

Soy in South America constitutes one of the most spectacular booms of agro-industrial commodity production in the world. It is the pinnacle of mode...

Zoo animals as a population are a diverse array of species from all around the globe. When managed in captivity, it is important that key aspects o...

The Great Lakes Basin in North America holds more than 20 percent of the world's fresh water. Threats to habitats and biodiversity have economic, p...

Biological diversity - or biodiversity - is the degree of variation of life within an ecosystem. It is a relatively new topic of study but has grow...

The Ocean Sunfishes: Evolution, Biology and Conservation is the first book to gather into one comprehensive volume our fundamental knowledge of the...

Bringing together a wealth of knowledge, Environmental Management Handbook, Second Edition, gives a comprehensive overview of environmental problem...

The world relies on very few crop and animal species for agriculture and to supply its food needs. In recent decades, there has been increased appr...

We urgently need to transform to a low carbon society, yet our progress is painfully slow, in part because there is widespread public concern that ...

Biofuels and Rural Poverty makes an original contribution to the current controversial global debate on biofuels, in particular the consequences th...

Out-migration might decrease the pressure of population on the environment, but what happens to the communities that manage the local environment w...

The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) is a pivotal piece of recent legislation, providing a route ...

The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) is a pivotal piece of recent legislation, providing a route ...

In May 2019, the United Nations released the Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services which warned that human activities wil...

In May 2019, the United Nations released the Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services which warned that human activities wil...

This volume set provides critical strategies for sustainable environmental management and biodiversity conservation in sub-Saharan Africa. They add...

Oceans cover more than 70% of the Earth's surface, with an average depth of approximately 3,800 meters. Humanity is largely excluded from this vast...

This volume was developed from the proceedings of a symposium held in Miami Beach, at the 189th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society.I...

A world of 9 billion people by mid-century will demand fundamental changes in our mindsets, behaviors, cultures, and overarching paradigm. Just as ...

Farmers have engaged in collective systems of conservation and innovation improving crops and sharing their reproductive materials since the earl...