Ecological Science, The Biosphere

This book discusses trends in animal behavior focusing specifically on vertebrates from the tropical region. It includes topics on a wide range of ...

This book introduces the complex world of carbon dynamics within forest ecosystems, particularly in boreal zones, while also incorporating findings...

This book charts the multidimensional course of what has come to be known as the Vegetal Turn in environmental humanities - a wave of theoretical a...

The paleontological site of Senèze (Haute Loire, central France) was discovered in 1892 inside a volcanic crater. For over 40 years, local peasant ...

This volume presents an array of different case studies which take as primary material data sourced from the NOW (New and Old Worlds) database of f...

This book delivers an outline to graduate, undergraduate students, and researchers, as well as academicians who are working on lead toxicity with r...

Drawing together the evidence of archaeology, palaeoecology, climate history and the historical record, this first environmental history of Scotlan...

Water is the essential substance for life on Earth. The natural patrimony of all living beings and the material and cultural heritage, a common goo...

The narrative of the progression of the horse family through geological time, from dog-sized fruit-eating animals with four toes on their front and...

This book provides a multi-scale reading of the spatial elements in which the extensive urbanity in Yangtze River Delta is constructed, and from th...

This open access book describes the complex dynamics that coevolve in cities and from cities, to inform agendas for urban research and urban policy...

Rock surfaces provide a challenging habitat for a broad diversity of micro- or small-sized organisms. They interact with each other forming complex...

This open access book addresses the following topics for the Seaflower Biosphere Reserve (BR) in the Colombian Archipelago of San Andrés, Providenc...

Latin America has extensive microbial diversity and is endemic for a wide array of infectious agents including dengue, chikungunya, malaria and tub...

This book focuses on various psycho-social and socio-physical aspects of climate change and includes a wide range of case studies. Included topics ...

To avoid any misunderstandings: this book is not about spiders as pets, but about those spiders that live in our houses and apartments as lodgers. ...

Nanoparticles Synthesis by Soil Microbes: Application in Plant Production and the Environment, a volume in the Plant and Soil Microbiome series, pr...

The aquatic habitats of the Amazon region are subject to natural daily and seasonal variations in the physico-chemical properties of the water. The...

What's it like to study polar bears in the wild? How do you raise children among large carnivores? And how do you find a frog that no-one has seen ...

This monograph puts a focus on the fundamental role of timber, in the European industrialization process. This ties into analyzing the early stages...

This book provides the latest information on aquatic AMR from the perspective of inflammation and presents new ideas on the complicated mechanisms ...

Energy Transition is not only one of the most daring technological endeavours of the present, it is also its new master narrative. This open access...

This book delves into the concept of city-sea interface as a space of strong physical, ecological, social and functional connection between the edg...