Kategoria BISAC: Science >> Life Sciences - Biological Diversity

One of the central research themes in ecology is evaluating the extent to which biological richness is necessary to sustain the Earth's system and the functioning of individual ecosystems. In this volume, for the first time, the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem processes in forests is thoroughly explored. The text examines the multiple effects of tree diversity on productivity and growth, biogeochemical cycles, animals, pests, and disturbances. Further, the importance of diversity at different scales, ranging from stand management to global issues, is considered. The authors...

This new volume on Biological Invasions deals with both plants and animals, differing from previous books by extending from the level of individual species to an ecosystem and global level. Topics of highest societal relevance, such as the impact of genetically modified organisms, are interlinked with more conventional ecological aspects, including biodiversity. The combination of these approaches is new and makes compelling reading for researchers and environmentalists.

Pflanzen und ihre Lebensraume - Wie konnen Pflanzen unter speziellen Lebensbedingungen gedeihen, wachsen und sich vermehren? Organismen interagieren mit ihrer Umwelt auf verschiedenen Ebenen. Die fundamentale Einheit geobotanischer Untersuchungen ist der individuelle pflanzliche und mikrobielle Organismus. Seine evolutive Entwicklung ist das Ergebnis eines selektiven Prozesses und seiner Einnischung in spezifische Lebensraume auf einem hoheren Organisationsniveau, den Populationen, den Pflanzengesellschaften und den von ihnen aufgebauten Okosystemen. Die Beziehungsgeflechte von Klima,...

Das Gesetz zur Umsetzung der Richtlinie uber Umwelthaftung zur Vermeidung und Sanierung von Umweltschaden wurde im Mai 2007 verabschiedet. Im deutschen Naturschutzrecht wird damit eine Verantwortlichkeit fur Biodiversitatsschaden auf der Grundlage des Verursacherprinzips eingefuhrt.

Die vorliegende Publikation untersucht die Regelungen der Richtlinie fur die Sanierung von Umweltschaden am Schutzgut Biodiversitat, den nach FFH- und Vogelschutzrichtlinie geschutzten Arten und naturlichen Lebensraumen. Analysiert werden die Bezuge zu den europaischen Naturschutzrichtlinien,...

Despite their enormous bulk and complexity of architecture, plants make up only around a quarter of a million of the 8 million or so species on Earth. The major components of biodiversity, instead, are the smaller, largely unseen, silent majority of invertebrates most of which are arthropods. Vertebrates, a mere blip on the biotic horizon, are elevated in importance in the bigger scheme of things only by the human psyche.

This collection of more than 30 peer-reviewed papers focuses on the diversity and conservation of arthropods, whose species inhabit virtually every recess and...

This new volume on Biological Invasions deals with both plants and animals, differing from previous books by extending from the level of individual species to an ecosystem and global level. Topics of highest societal relevance, such as the impact of genetically modified organisms, are interlinked with more conventional ecological aspects, including biodiversity. The combination of these approaches is new and makes compelling reading for researchers and environmentalists.

Covered in this volume are the following topics:

• Political requirements and statements on biotic agri-environmental indicators;


• Requirements regarding agri-environmental indicators from a scientific as well as an applied point of view;


• Scientific reviews...

This book presents evidence that UFOs are mainly invisible and consist of both physical craft and living, biological creatures. The author convincingly shows that our atmosphere is the home of huge, invisible living organisms that are sometimes confused with spacecraft when they became visible. Mr. Constable has photographed both types of UFOs with special infrared film, some of which are reproduced in this expanded and updated edition. Despite his bold leap into the future, the general public and official ufology have a hard time accepting the evidence. In recent years teams of engineers...

Thanks to advances in electronic archiving of biodiversity data and the digitization of climate and other geophysical data, a new era in biogeography, functional ecology, and evolutionary ecology has begun. In Data Mining for Global Trends in Mountain Biodiversity, Christian Korner, Eva M. Spehn, and a team of experts from the Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment of DIVERSITAS explore two of the hottest subjects in science and technology: biodiversity and data mining. They demonstrate how to harness the scientific power of biological databases for furthering ecological...