Ecological Science, The Biosphere

Silicon is among the most abundant elements on earth. It plays a key but largely unappreciated role in many biogeochemical processes, including tho...

Historically, tropical ecology has been a science often content with descriptive and demographic approaches, which is understandable given the diff...

One of the less obvious effects of population growth is that a vastly increased proportion of the Earth is now illuminated at night, with increasin...

Despite the billions of dollars we've poured into foreign wars, homeland security, and disaster response, we are fundamentally no better prepared f...

During the past 30 years, the relationship between humans and the environment has changed more drastically than during any previous period in human...

This summary of what is known about microclimatic environments and the effects of climate on plant growth presents a comprehensive statement on the...

An in-depth guide to writing high-quality and effective professional ecological reports. Mike Dean distils the knowledge and experience gained over...

All the information researchers, students, and practitioners need to conducted innovative, state-of-the-art research on small mammals.Rodents and i...

Drawing especially on insights emerging from studies of the cellular networks formed by fungi, this book describes the fundamental indeterminacy th...

The Carbon Balance of Forest Biomes provides an informed synthesis on the current status of forests and their future potential for carbon sequestra...

Throughout its history, the discipline of ecology has always been profoundly entangled with the history of space and place. On the one hand, ecolog...

“Top agricultural scientists from around the world have taken up the challenge of sustainable agriculture, with the specific focus on integrating a...

Graphs, networks and agent-based modeling are the most thriving and attracting sciences used in ecology and environmental sciences. As such, this b...

Continuing in the tradition of its bestselling predecessor, the Handbook of Ecological Indicators for Assessment of Ecosystem Health, Second Editio...

Due to the complexity and non-linearity of most ecological problems, artificial neural networks (ANNs) have attracted attention from ecologists and...

Environmental biology is a study in the conditions of life; these conditions impact the life within it. The conditions of life are not limited to t...

All life on earth occurs in natural assemblages called communities. Community ecology is the study of patterns and processes involving these collec...

Although organic farming and agroecology are normally not associated with the use of new technologies, it’s rapid growth, new technologies are bein...

This volume presents ecological consequences and evolutionary mechanisms that may be associated with behavioral alterations in parasitized hosts. A...

Birds show bewildering diversity in their life histories, mating systems and risk of extinction. Why do albatrosses delay reproduction for the firs...