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  • Invasive Alien Species

    A New Synthesis

    Edited by Harold A. Mooney, Richard Mack, Jeffrey A. McNeely, Laurie E. Neville, Peter Johan Schei, Jeffrey K. Waage ...
    Series series SCOPE Series
    Invasive alien species are among today's most daunting environmental threats, costing billions of dollars in economic damages and wreaking havoc on ecosystems around the world. In 1997, a consortium of scientific organizations including SCOPE, IUCN, and CABI developed the Global Invasive Species Programme (GISP) with the explicit objective of providing new tools for understanding and coping with ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

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  • From Populations to Ecosystems

    Theoretical Foundations for a New Ecological Synthesis

    by Michel Loreau ...
    Series Book 46 - Monographs in Population Biology
    The major subdisciplines of ecology--population ecology, community ecology, ecosystem ecology, and evolutionary ecology--have diverged increasingly in recent decades. What is critically needed today is an integrated, real-world approach to ecology that reflects the interdependency of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. From Populations to Ecosystems proposes an innovative theoretical synthesis ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Animals, Ethics and Trade

    The Challenge of Animal Sentience

    Edited by Joyce D'Silva, Jacky Turner ...
    Modern urban life cuts us off from direct connection with the animal world, yet daily the lives of millions of animals are affected by what we consume and wear and what we trade in. The use of animals for food, labour and pleasure pursuits has long been justified with the assumption that unlike humans, animals aren't fully sentient beings. In recent years, however, science has revealed an ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Biocultural Diversity Conservation

    A Global Sourcebook

    by Luisa Maffi, Ellen Woodley ...
    The field of biocultural diversity is emerging as a dynamic, integrative approach to understanding the links between nature and culture and the interrelationships between humans and the environment at scales from the global to the local. Its multifaceted contributions have ranged from theoretical elaborations, to mappings of the overlapping distributions of biological and cultural diversity, to ... Read more

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  • Animal Welfare

    by Sir Colin Spedding ...
    Awareness of the use of animals in human society in fields such as farming, biotechnology and sport is dogged by the lack of a clear and objective exposition of the issues involved and a sense of possible conflict between human and animal welfare. This text addresses these dilemmas - what is the actual scale of the animal welfare problem; where does responsibility begin; what positive steps are ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Plant Invasions in Protected Areas

    Patterns, Problems and Challenges

    Edited by Llewellyn C. Foxcroft, Petr Pyšek, David M. Richardson, Piero Genovesi ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book is the first comprehensive global review of all aspects of alien plant invasions in protected areas. It provides insights into advances in invasion ecology emanating from work in protected areas, and the link to locally relevant management support for protected areas. The book provides in-depth case studies, illuminating interesting and insightful knowledge that can be shared across the ... Read more

    $242.09 USD

  • Ecological Succession on Fallowed Shifting Cultivation Fields

    A Review of the Literature

    by Claudio O. Delang, Wing Man Li ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The book reviews the literature on the ecological succession of plants on fallowed swiddens in tropical forests. Patterns of ecological succession in tropical forests are insufficiently understood, partly because results are scattered through a large number of case studies reported in academic articles. So far, no publication has attempted to bring these different case studies together to identify ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Integrative Observations and Assessments

    Edited by Tetsukazu Yahara, Tohru Nakashizuka, Shin-ichi Nakano ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This volume focuses on new trends in monitoring biodiversity in the Asia-Pacific region, one of the most rapidly changing areas in the world. It provides reviews of the challenges in studying the spatial variability of biodiversity across various ecosystems. This book also describes newly developed concepts and methods for biodiversity observation including ubiquitous genotyping, systematic ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Agroecological Crop Protection

    Edited by Jean-Philippe Deguine, Caroline Gloanec, Philippe Laurent, Alain Ratnadass, Jean-Noël Aubertot ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book is devoted to Agroecological Crop Protection, which is the declension of the principles of agroecology to crop protection. It presents the concepts of this innovative approach, case studies and lessons and generic keys for agroecological transition. The book is intended for a wide audience, including scientists, experimenters, teachers, farmers, students. It represents a new tool, ... Read more

    $152.09 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

  • Global Soil Security

    Edited by Damien J. Field, Cristine L.S. Morgan, Alex B. McBratney ...
    Series series Progress in Soil Science
    This book introduces the concept of soil security and its five dimensions: Capability, Capital, Condition, Connectivity and Codification. These five dimensions make it possible to understand soil's role in delivering ecosystem services and to quantify soil resource by measuring, mapping, modeling and managing it. Each dimension refers to a specific aspect: contribution to global challenges ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

  • Bioprospecting

    Success, Potential and Constraints

    Edited by Russell Paterson, Nelson Lima ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book considers all aspects of bioprospecting in 14 succinct chapters and a forward by David Hawksworth. The organisms addressed include plants, insects, fungi, bacteria and phages. Bioprospecting has never been more relevant and is of renewed interest, because of the extremely worrying rise in novel, resistant pathogenic microorganisms. The practices in pharmaceutical companies have failed to ... Read more

    $143.09 USD