Ecology

That residues of pesticide and other "foreign" chemicals in food stuffs are of concern to everyone everywhere is amply attested by the reception accorded previous volumes of "Residue Reviews" and by the gratifying enthUSiasm,...

A new era in wildland fuel sciences is now evolving in such a way that fire scientists and managers need a comprehensive understanding of fuels ecology and science to fully understand fire effects and behavior on diverse ecosystem and landscape...

Sea cucumbers belong to the Phylum Echinodermata. There are more than 900 recorded species of sea cucumber of which more than 40 are edible. As a food source, sea cucumbers are rich in protein, low in fat, rich in collagen, sulfated polysaccharides,...

This book focuses on tropical coasts, which are highly vulnerable due to a multitude of stressors. Population growth is substantial, habitats are lost and biodiversity is reduced at an alarming rate, severely affecting many ecosystem services. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950313143Author Sean BaumgartenFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint San Francisco Estuary InstitutePublisher San Francisco Estuary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639227451Author James LuxtonFormat PaperbackImprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786207794959Author Neuma Rúbia Figueiredo SantanaFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Our Knowledge PublishingPublisher Our Knowledge...

Proceedings of the VIIth International Colloquium on Amphipoda held in Walpole, Maine, USA, September 14-16, 1990Book InformationISBN 9789401055680Author L. WatlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 299Imprint SpringerPublisher SpringerWeight(grams) 679g

That residues of pesticide and other "foreign" chemicals in foodstuffs are of concern to everyone everywhere is amply attested by the reception accorded previous volumes of "Residue Reviews" and by the gratifying en thusiasm,...

The aim of this book is to provide a straightforward summary of the knowledge required for examinations in specialist Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Part Two of the examination for Membership of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists would be...

Sir Hugh W. Springer This book is the outcome of a symposium organized jointly by the Commonwealth Human Ecology Council and the Hudders field Polytechnic and held in Huddersfield in April 1973. It is the third book to have resulted from the work of the...

Biodiversity is decreasing at the fastest rate in the history of the earth. The sustainable use of ecosystems allowing maintenance of biological diversity is an urgent problem that must be solved. The work featured in this book presents the results...

This book describes the emergence of landscape ecology, its current status as a new integrative science, and how distinguished scholars in the field of landscape ecology view the future regarding new challenges and career opportunities. Over the past...

This is the fourth volume in a series designed to publish theoretical, empirical and review papers on scientific human ecology. Human ecology is interpreted to include structural and functional changes in human social organization and sociocultural...

Global climate change is one of the most important environmental issues facing the world today. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) acknowledges the potential for global climate change to have major effects on the world...

That residues of pestieide and other "foreign" chemieals in foodstuffs are of eoneern to everyone everywhere is amply attested by the reeeption aeeorded previous volumes of "Residue Reviews" and by the gratifying enthusiasm,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639234978Author Tijl EssensFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 141g

During the middle and late 1960s, concern about the way the world might be going began to move out of the arena of academic debate amongst specialists, and became a topic of almost everyday interest to millions of people. Concern about mankind's...

In the summer of 2003, a workshop was held in Portsmouth, NH, to discuss land measurement techniques for the North American Carbon Program. Over 40 sci- tists representing government agencies, academia and nonprofit research organi- tions located in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639311945Author M B ShrivastavaFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 390g

The exigencies of life in the desert environment have resulted in the se lection of a diversity of adaptations, both morphological and physiologi cal, in the flora and fauna. At the same time, many plants and most small animals are able not merely to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639710588Author Marietta PresteleFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Scholars' PressPublisher Scholars' PressWeight(grams) 154g

This book addresses the question of what determines species richness in tropical animals by comparing and contrasting the communities of the five major classes of vertebrates in two environments considered to be the most species-rich on Planet Earth -...

The seventh volume in the series "Ethology and Behavioral Ecology of Marine Mammals" describes aspects of the often-complex relationship between humans and marine mammals. From a primeval condition of occasional predators, during the last...

Worldwide concern in scientific, industrial, and governmental com munities over traces of toxic chemicals in foodstuffs and in both abiotic and biotic environments has justified the present triumvirate of specialized publications in this field:...

Up to now, environmental policies have relied mainly on rules, regulations, and prohibitions. This kind of environmental policy -- a clearly reactive approach - has shown a mounting array of limitations. There is a clear need to seek new solutions, in...

Harold A. Mooney and Richard J. Hobbs At present there is enormous concern about the changes that are occurring on the surface of the earth and in the earth's atmosphere, primarily as a result of human activities. These changes, particularly in the...

Global warming is likely to have the greatest impact at high latitudes, making the Arctic an important region both for detecting global climate change and for studying its effects on terrestrial ecosystems. The chapters in this volume address current and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639013726Author Lisa LevesqueFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publisher VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Weight(grams) 191g

Dramatic advances in computing power enable simulation of DNA sequences generated by complex microevolutionary scenarios that include mutation, population structure, natural selection, meiotic recombination, demographic change, and explicit spatial...

This volume contains papers presented at a NATO Advanced Research Institute, sponsored by their Eco-Sciences Panel, on "The effects of acid precipitation on vegetation and soils," held at Toronto, Canada from May 22-26, 1978. The organizing...

Biology of Antarctic Fish presents the most recent findings on the biology of fish in the unique environment of the Antarctic ocean. At present the year-round temperature of the coastal waters is very near -1,87 Degrees C, the equilibrium temperature of...

Worldwide concern in scientific, industrial, and governmental com in foodstuffs and in both abiotic munities over traces of toxic chemicals and biotic environments has justified the present triumvirate of specialized publications in this field:...

This is a book about fishermen's reasons for obeying fisheries law. The fish harvesting industry has become subject to state interference to an increasing extent over the past twenty years. As natural resources become scarce and subsequent fisheries...

This book has its genesis in materials collected in the Hestern Central Atlantic region in preparation for a regional seminar on the Changing Law of the Sea and its Implications for Fisheries in the Hestern Atlantic. The Seminar, which was organised by...

Tanzania is one of the most biologically diverse nations in the world. Traveling from west to east across Tanzania, one encounters an incredible array of ecosystems and species. Beginning at Lakes Victoria, Tanganyika, and Nyasa that form much of the...

The New Zealand insect fauna 508 Endemism 513 Relationships ...516 Shore insects ...519 Ground-dwelling and soil insects 521 Insects of dead wood and fungi. 525 Cave and ground-water insects 526 Alpine insects ...529 Moss insects ...531 Insects...

This book offers a rare and detailed insight into 20 years' of in-depth field research and conservation of the white-headed langur. It focuses on the white-headed langur's natural refuge, territory and home range, diets and foraging strategies, behavior...

Although the ancestral home of chelicerates was the sea, the vast majority of modern species live on land. Most students of spiders and mites also restrict themselves to terrestrial habitats. However, a surprising number of mites (Arachnida: Acari) have...

This open access book examines how and why various forms of climate (im)mobilities can impact people's objective and subjective well-being. Worsening climate impacts are forcing subsistence farmers worldwide to decide between staying or leaving their...