The Fernow Watershed Acidification Study
ISBN: 9789048171538 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the late 1980 s, a considerable amount of research addressing the effects of acidic deposition was begun, much of it related to the Congr- sionally mandated National Atmospheric Precipitation Assessment Program (NAPAP). As a result of the 10-year NAPAP program, effects on human health, materials, structures, visibility and terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems were evaluated. As a result of NAPAP funded research, negative effects of acidic deposition were documented on freshwater lakes in the Adirondacks and on the red spruce of the Adirondacks and northern Appalachians. One of the...
In the late 1980 s, a considerable amount of research addressing the effects of acidic deposition was begun, much of it related to the Congr- sionally...
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Water, Cultural Diversity, and Global Environmental Change: Emerging Trends, Sustainable Futures?
ISBN: 9789400718661 / Angielski / Miękka / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Co-published with UNESCO A product of the UNESCO-IHP project on Water and Cultural Diversity, this book represents an effort to examine the complex role water plays as a force in sustaining, maintaining, and threatening the viability of culturally diverse peoples. It is argued that water is a fundamental human need, a human right, and a core sustaining element in biodiversity and cultural diversity. The core concepts utilized in this book draw upon a larger trend in sustainability science, a recognition of the synergism and analytical potential in utilizing a coupled biological and... Co-published with UNESCO A product of the UNESCO-IHP project on Water and Cultural Diversity, this book represents an effort to examine the c... |
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Forest Growth Responses to the Pollution Climate of the 21st Century
ISBN: 9780792359913 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Special Issue of Water, Air and Soil Pollution offers contributions from the th 18 IUFRO workshop on Air Pollution Stress, Forest Responses to the Pollution st Climate of the 21 Century held in Edinburgh, Scotland, from September 21 to 23,1998. The meeting was held under the auspices of IUFRO, Research Group 7.04.00 chaired by Dr Kevin Percy of Canada. A new session structure was adopted to stimulate activity within the six working parties and a brief resume of these is presented at the front of this volume. The two, one-day plenary sessions were devoted to the two important air...
This Special Issue of Water, Air and Soil Pollution offers contributions from the th 18 IUFRO workshop on Air Pollution Stress, Forest Responses to th...
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Sustaining Young Forest Communities: Ecology and Management of Early Successional Habitats in the Central Hardwood Region, USA
ISBN: 9789400716193 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited volume addresses a rising concern among natural resource scientists and management professionals about decline of the many plant and animal species associated with early-successional habitats, especially within the Central Hardwood Region of the USA. These open habitats, with herbaceous, shrub, or young forest cover, are disappearing as abandoned farmland, pastures, and cleared forest patches return to forest. There are many questions about "why, what, where, and how" to manage for early successional habitats. In this book, expert scientists and experienced land managers...
This edited volume addresses a rising concern among natural resource scientists and management professionals about decline of the many plant and anima...
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Stress Ecology: Environmental Stress as Ecological Driving Force and Key Player in Evolution
ISBN: 9789400720718 / Angielski / Twarda / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Not all stress is stressful; instead, it appears that stress in the environment, below the mutation threshold, is essential for many subtle manifestations of population structures and biodiversity, and has played a substantial role in the evolution of life. Intrigued by the behavior of laboratory animals that contradicted our current understanding of stress, the author and his group studied the beneficial effects of stress on animals and plants. The seemingly "crazy" animals demonstrated that several stress paradigms are outdated and have to be reconsidered. The book describes the general...
Not all stress is stressful; instead, it appears that stress in the environment, below the mutation threshold, is essential for many subtle manifestat...
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Ecological Indicators for the Assessment of the Quality of Air, Water, Soil, and Ecosystems: Papers Presented at a Symposium Held in Utrecht, October
ISBN: 9789027717085 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Papers presented at a Symposium held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, October 1982
Papers presented at a Symposium held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, October 1982
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Expert Knowledge and Its Application in Landscape Ecology
ISBN: 9781461410331 / Angielski / Twarda / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Typically, landscape ecologists use empirical observations to conduct research and devise solutions for applied problems in conservation and management. In some instances, they rely on advice and input of experienced professionals in both developing and applying knowledge. Given the wealth of expert knowledge and the risks of its informal and implicit applications in landscape ecology, it is necessary to formally recognize and characterize expert knowledge and bring rigor to methods for its applications. In this context, the broad goal of this book is to introduce the concept of expert...
Typically, landscape ecologists use empirical observations to conduct research and devise solutions for applied problems in conservation and managemen...
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Invasive Alien Arthropod Predators and Parasitoids: An Ecological Approach
ISBN: 9789400727083 / Angielski / Twarda / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Understanding invasion biology, and the dynamics of biological control practices, requires a multidisciplinary approach, embracing and integrating all the research tools at our disposal, particularly modern molecular and modelling techniques. This book provides a comprehensive and current overview of invasive alien arthropod predators and parasitoids through 20 chapters, contributed by 69 internationally renowned scientists (previously published as peer-reviewed papers in BioControl August 2011), ranging from broad reviews of key topics on invasive alien species (IAS) to taxon-specific...
Understanding invasion biology, and the dynamics of biological control practices, requires a multidisciplinary approach, embracing and integrating all...
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Information Technologies for Remote Monitoring of the Environment
ISBN: 9783642205668 / Angielski / Twarda / 502 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This exhaustive survey of the state of the art in applying ecoinformatics to the study of sustainable development takes a multilevel approach and models the physical environment using both physical parameters as well as multispectral remote sensing.
This exhaustive survey of the state of the art in applying ecoinformatics to the study of sustainable development takes a multilevel approach and mode...
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Fencing for Conservation: Restriction of Evolutionary Potential or a Riposte to Threatening Processes?
ISBN: 9781461409014 / Angielski / Twarda / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The conflict between increasing human population and biodiversity conservation is one of the IUCN s key threatening processes. Conservation planning has received a great deal of coverage and research as a way of conserving biodiversity yet, while theoretically successful, it has never been tested. Simple lines on maps to illustrate conservation areas are unlikely to be successful in the light of human encroachment. It may be that some form of overt display is necessary to ensure the protection of reserves. This may be signage, presence of guards/rangers or physical fencing structures.... The conflict between increasing human population and biodiversity conservation is one of the IUCN s key threatening processes. Conservation plannin... |
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Derivative Spectrophotometry and Electron Spin Resonance (Esr) Spectroscopy for Ecological and Biological Questions
ISBN: 9783709110065 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here is an overview of the application of high order derivative spectrophotometry and Electron Spin Resonance spectroscopy in biology and ecology. Discussion includes the characteristics of the principle methods as well as the generation of reliable spectra.
Here is an overview of the application of high order derivative spectrophotometry and Electron Spin Resonance spectroscopy in biology and ecology. Dis...
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Reviving the Dying Giant: Integrated Water Resource Management in the Zayandeh Rud Catchment, Iran
ISBN: 9783319549200 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents the results of an interdisciplinary research project that was set up to introduce Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) at the Zayandeh Rud, Central Iran's most important river.
This book presents the results of an interdisciplinary research project that was set up to introduce Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) at t...
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Plants and Climate Change
ISBN: 9789048171293 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Plants and Climate Change focuses on how climate affects or affected the biosphere and vice versa both in the present and past. The chapters describe how ecosystems from the Antarctic and Arctic and from other latitudes respond to global climate change. The papers highlight plant responses to atmospheric CO2 increase, to global warming and to increased ultraviolet-B radiation as a result of stratospheric ozone depletion. Depending on how and how well plant responses to increased temperature, atmospheric CO2 and ultraviolet-B have been preserved... Plants and Climate Change focuses on how climate affects or affected the biosphere and vice versa both in the present and past. The chapte... |
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From Energetics to Ecosystems: The Dynamics and Structure of Ecological Systems
ISBN: 9789048173471 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ecosystems are complex and enigmatic entities that are ultimately our life support systems. Understanding these systems to the point of being able to predict their behaviour in the face of perturbations requires that researchers adopt a number of strategies that vary in both approach and scale. This book, in a sense, is representative of some of the developments that have unfolded when math and physics met ecology. Here, some of the world s leading ecologists examine ecosystems from theoretical, experimental, and empirical viewpoints, from energetics to ecosystems. The book begins with... Ecosystems are complex and enigmatic entities that are ultimately our life support systems. Understanding these systems to the point of being able ... |
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Ecotones Between Forest and Grassland
ISBN: 9781461437963 / Angielski / Twarda / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ecotones are dynamic over-lapping boundary areas where major terrestrial biomes meet. As past studies have shown, and as the chapters in this book will illustrate, their structure, size, and scope have changed considerably over the millennia, expanding and shrinking as climate and/or other driving conditions, also changed. Today, however, many of them are changing at a rate not seen for a long time, perhaps largely due to climate change and other human-induced factors. Indeed ecotones are more sensitive to climate change than the biomes on either side, and thus may serve as critical early... Ecotones are dynamic over-lapping boundary areas where major terrestrial biomes meet. As past studies have shown, and as the chapters in this book ... |
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Regional Environmental Changes in Siberia and Their Global Consequences
ISBN: 9789400745681 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume presents a state-of-the-art assessment of the Earth's climate system in Siberia and relationships between climate, ecosystems and people in that region. Changes in climatic variables and land cover in Siberia are among the earliest indicators of the Earth's response to climate warming. The volume is a compilation of results from studies on climate, land-cover and land-use changes and their interactions with biogeochemical and water cycles, atmospheric aerosol, and human and wildlife populations in Siberia. Regional changes in Siberia are predicted to affect climate and people... This volume presents a state-of-the-art assessment of the Earth's climate system in Siberia and relationships between climate, ecosystems and peopl... |
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The Entolomataceae of Tasmania
ISBN: 9789400746787 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the result of 14 years of collecting Entolomataceae in the native forests of Tasmania, Australia. Although initially involving only the Tasmanian residents Genevieve Gates and David Ratkowsky, who made twice- or thrice-weekly forays into the forests throughout the year, the project was subsequently joined by agaric specialist Machiel Noordeloos from the Netherlands, and by fungi photographer Michael Pilkington from the United Kingdom. The international character of the project is further evidenced by the earlier contributions of American mycologist Tim Baroni to the... This book is the result of 14 years of collecting Entolomataceae in the native forests of Tasmania, Australia. Although initially involving only th... |
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Ancient Animals, New Challenges: Developments in Sponge Research
ISBN: 9789400746879 / Angielski / Twarda / 351 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book summarizes the latest advances in sponge science through a concise selection of studies presented at the VIII World Sponge Conference. The collection of articles reflects hot, ongoing debates in molecular research, such as the monophyletic versus paraphyletic nature of the sponge group, or the new awareness on pros and cons of standard barcodes and other markers in sponge taxonomy and phylogeny. It also features articles showing how the new sequencing technologies reveal the functional and phylogenetic complexity of the "microbial universe" associated to sponge tissues. The... This book summarizes the latest advances in sponge science through a concise selection of studies presented at the VIII World Sponge Conference. Th... |
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The Mongolian Ecosystem Network: Environmental Issues Under Climate and Social Changes
ISBN: 9784431540519 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This detailed presentation of the ecological and social aspects of environmental issues in Mongolia, such as desertification and the sustainability of nomadism, deploys the latest field research techniques to assess the nature of the threats the country faces.
This detailed presentation of the ecological and social aspects of environmental issues in Mongolia, such as desertification and the sustainability of...
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Echinoderm Research and Diversity in Latin America
ISBN: 9783642200502 / Angielski / Twarda / 658 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book compiles for the first time the development of echinoderm research in Latin America. The book contains 17 chapters, one introductory, 15 country chapters, and a final biogeographic analysis. It compiles all the investigations published in international and local journals, reports, theses and other gray literature. Each chapter is composed of 7 sections: introduction describes the marine environments, and main oceanographic characteristics, followed by a history of research account divided by specific subjects. The next section addresses patterns of distribution and diversity. A...
This book compiles for the first time the development of echinoderm research in Latin America. The book contains 17 chapters, one introductory, 15 cou...
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