Ecological Science, The Biosphere

The first book to focus exclusively on the subject, Geodiversity, Second Edition describes the interrelationships between geodiversity and biodiver...

Trophic cascadesthe top-down regulation of ecosystems by predatorsare an essential aspect of ecosystem function and well-being. Trophic cascades ar...

A groundbreaking approach to scale and scaling in ecological theory and practiceScale is one of the most important concepts in ecology, yet researc...

With the expansion of human settlements and the environmental changes brought on by human activity and pollutants, toxicology and risk assessment o...

A groundbreaking approach to scale and scaling in ecological theory and practiceScale is one of the most important concepts in ecology, yet researc...

This book gives new perspective on just whom activists must target to slow global warmingthat is, target those who are warming the globe deliberate...

The never-before-told story of the horned rabbitthe myths, the hoaxes, the very real scientific breakthrough it inspiredand how it became a cultura...

PALEOECOLOGY PALEOECOLOGYPast, Present and Future Paleoecology is a discipline that uses evidence from fossils to provide an understanding of ancie...

Rising temperatures are affecting organisms in all of Earth's biomes, but the complexity of ecological responses to climate change has hampered the...

The Murray cod is Australia's largest and most iconic freshwater fish. Tales of the species have long been part of Australian folklore and this boo...

Coastal ecosystems are centres of high biological productivity, but their conservation is often threatened by numerous and complex environmental fa...

Coastal ecosystems are centres of high biological productivity, but their conservation is often threatened by numerous and complex environmental fa...

How does nature work in our human-created city, suburb, and exurb/peri-urb? Indeed how is ecology - including its urban water, soil, air, plant, an...

To provide useful and meaningful information, long-term ecological programs need to implement solid and efficient statistical approaches for collec...

Long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) have a wide geographical distribution and extensively overlap with human societies across southeast Asia...

Interactions between competitors, predators and their prey have traditionally been viewed as the foundation of community structure. Parasites long...

Dugongs and manatees, the only fully aquatic herbivorous mammals, live in the coastal waters, rivers and lakes of more than 80 subtropical and trop...

Ecological restoration projects seek to recover the natural functioning of degraded ecosystems, most often areas disturbed by human large scale pro...

Salt marshes are highly dynamic and important ecosystems that dampen impacts of coastal storms and are an integral part of tidal wetland systems, w...

Quantum mechanics is traditionally associated with microscopic systems; however, quantum concepts have also been successfully applied to a diverse ...

Only a green world, rich in plants, can sustain us and the millions of other species with which we share this planet. But, in an era of global chan...

Through a long history of co-evolution, multicellular organisms form a complex of host cells plus many associated microorganism species. Consisting...

Distribution and Transformation of Nutrients and Eutrophication in Large-scale Lakes and Reservoirs: The Three Gorges Reservoir presents key findin...

When we think about viruses we tend to consider ones that afflict humans--such as those that cause influenza, HIV, and Ebola. Yet, vastly more viru...

The world now has more than a billion motor vehicles, and this number continues to increase as developing countries imitate developed societies in ...

This book brings together experts from different fields, who used a broad spectrum of methods to investigate the physiological and cellular adaptat...

Geomicrobiology is the study of microbes and microbial processes and their role in driving environmental and geological processes at scales ranging...

Graph theory can be applied to ecological questions in many ways, and more insights can be gained by expanding the range of graph theoretical conce...

Ecologists, land managers and policymakers continue to search for the most effective ways to manage biological invasions. An emerging lesson is tha...

Ecologists, land managers and policymakers continue to search for the most effective ways to manage biological invasions. An emerging lesson is tha...

Centring on South Africa's Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park, this book synthesizes a century of insights from the ecology and conservation management of one ...

In allen seinen Teilgebieten weist Mitteleuropa eine beachtliche natur- und kulturlandschaftliche Vielfalt auf, die unser Erleben draußen enorm ber...