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  • Quantifying Functional Biodiversity

    by Laura Pla, Fernando Casanoves, Julio Di Rienzo ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book synthesizes current methods used to quantify functional diversity, providing step-by-step examples for defining functional groups and estimating functional indices. The authors show how to compare communities, and how to analyze changes of diversity along environmental gradients, using real-life examples throughout. One section of the book demonstrates the selection of traits, and the ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

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  • The Serengeti Rules

    The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters - With a new Q&A with the author

    by Sean B. Carroll ...
    Now the subject of an Emmy Award–winning film the New York Times calls "spellbinding"How does life work? How does nature produce the right numbers of zebras and lions on the African savanna, or fish in the ocean? How do our bodies produce the right numbers of cells in our organs and bloodstream? In The Serengeti Rules, award-winning biologist and author Sean Carroll tells the stories of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Inheritors of the Earth

    How Nature Is Thriving in an Age of Extinction

    by Chris D. Thomas ...
    Human activity has irreversibly changed the natural environment. But the news isn't all bad.It's accepted wisdom today that human beings have permanently damaged the natural world, causing extinction, deforestation, pollution, and of course climate change. But in Inheritors of the Earth, biologist Chris Thomas shows that this obscures a more hopeful truth -- we're also helping nature grow and ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Surviving the 21st Century

    Humanity's Ten Great Challenges and How We Can Overcome Them

    by Julian Cribb ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The book explores the central question facing humanity today: how can we best survive the ten great existential challenges that are now coming together to confront us? Besides describing these challenges from the latest scientific perspectives, it also outlines and integrates the solutions, both at global and individual level and concludes optimistically. This book brings together in one easy-to ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Advances in Plant Dormancy

    Edited by James V. Anderson ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Plant dormancy involves synchronization of environmental cues with developmental processes to ensure plant survival; however, negative impacts of plant dormancy include pre-harvest sprouting, non-uniform germination of crop and weed seeds, and fruit loss due to inappropriate bud break. Thus, our continued quest to disseminate information is important in moving our understanding of plant dormancy ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Animals' Influence on the Landscape and Ecological Importance

    Natives, Newcomers, Homecomers

    by Friedrich-Karl Holtmeier ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    In its first English-language edition, this book introduces the many-faceted interactions of animal populations with their habitats. From soil fauna, ants and termites to small and large herbivores, burrowing mammals and birds, the author presents a comprehensive analysis of animals and ecosystems that is as broad and varied as all nature. Chapter 2 addresses the functional role of animals in ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Cost-Benefit Analyses of Climate Change

    The Broader Perspectives

    by Ferenc Toth ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) was founded in 1992 as a "Blue List" research institute, with the Federal Ministry for Education, Science, Research and Technology and the Ministry for Science, Research and Culture of the federal state of Brandenburg each provid ing half ofthe funding. PIK currently has a staff of 100 (1997), including about 75 scientists and guest ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Linking Ecology and Ethics for a Changing World

    Values, Philosophy, and Action

    Edited by Ricardo Rozzi, S.T.A. Pickett, Clare Palmer, Juan J. Armesto, J. Baird Callicott ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    To comprehensively address the complexities of current socio-ecological problems involved in global environmental change, it is indispiseble to achieve an integration of ecological understanding and ethical values. Contemporary science proposes an inclusive ecosystem concept that recognizes humans as components. Contemporary environmental ethics includes eco-social justice and the realization that ... Read more

    $242.09 USD

  • Soil

    Reflections on the Basis of our Existence

    by Håkan Wallander ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Håkan Wallander is a professor in Soil Biology and the reader is guided through the fascinating world below ground. The book has a free form and the author mixes scientific facts with personal stories from active research experiences and everyday life. The main focus is to make the reader aware of the vast biodiversity that exists in the soil, and to describe the important processes provided by ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Structure and Function of Mountain Ecosystems in Japan

    Biodiversity and Vulnerability to Climate Change

    Edited by Gaku Kudo ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The purpose of this book is to summarize new insights on the structure and function of mountain ecosystems and to present evidence and perspectives on the impact of climate change on biodiversity. This volume describes overall features of high-mountain ecosystems in Japan, which are characterized by clear seasonality and snow-thawing dynamics. Individual chapters cover a variety of unique topics, ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Ecotones Between Forest and Grassland

    Edited by Randall W. Myster ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    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 ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Climate change and sustainable development

    Ethical perspectives on land use and food production

    Edited by Thomas Potthast, Simon Meisch ...
    Climate change is a major framing condition for sustainable development of agriculture and food. Global food production is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions and at the same time it is among the sectors worst affected by climate change. This book brings together a multidisciplinary group of authors exploring the ethical dimensions of climate change and food. Conceptual ... Read more

    $89.99 USD