Ecology category: 3266 books
Trapping of Small Organisms Moving Randomly
Principles and Applications to Pest Monitoring and Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
This new book is the first to make logical and important connections between trapping and foraging ecology. It develops and describes—both verbally and mathematically--the underlying principles that determine and define trap-organism interactions. More important, it goes on to explain and illustrate...
Principles of Environmental Physics
Plants, Animals, and the Atmosphere
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
Principles of Environmental Physics: Plants, Animals, and the Atmosphere, 4e, provides a basis for understanding the complex physical interactions of plants and animals with their natural environment. It is the essential reference to provide environmental and ecological scientists and researchers...
by Gwanael Piganeau
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Advances in Botanical Research publishes in-depth and up-to-date reviews on a wide range of topics in plant sciences. The series features a wide range of reviews by recognized experts on all aspects of plant genetics, biochemistry, cell biology, molecular biology, physiology and ecology. This thematic...
Stress Ecology
Environmental Stress as Ecological Driving Force and Key Player in Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
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...
The Fungal Community
Its Organization and Role in the Ecosystem, Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
"…a number of chapters provide excellent summaries of the modern methods available for studying fungal ecology, along with those more traditional methods that are still extremely valuable…overall it is a hugely valuable compendium of fungal ecology research. It is a must for the library shelf."
-Lynne...
Lyme Disease
The Ecology of a Complex System
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
Most human diseases come from nature, from pathogens that live and breed in non-human animals and are "accidentally" transmitted to us. Human illness is only the culmination of a complex series of interactions among species in their natural habitats. To avoid exposure to these pathogens, we must understand...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Advances in the Study of Behavior was initiated over 40 years ago to serve the increasing number of scientists engaged in the study of animal behavior. That number is still expanding. This thematic volume makes another important "contribution to the development of the field" by bringing together material...
Conservation Behavior
Applying Behavioral Ecology to Wildlife Conservation and Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Conservation behavior assists the investigation of species endangerment associated with managing animals impacted by anthropogenic activities. It employs a theoretical framework that examines the mechanisms, development, function, and phylogeny of behavior variation in order to develop practical tools...
by Hans Lambers, Thijs L. Pons, F Stuart Chapin III
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2008
Box 9E. 1 Continued FIGURE 2. The C–S–R triangle model (Grime 1979). The strategies at the three corners are C, competiti- winning species; S, stress-tolerating s- cies; R,ruderalspecies. Particular species can engage in any mixture of these three primary strategies, and the m- ture is described...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
This volume addresses recent developments in weed science. These developments include conservation agriculture and conservation tillage, climate change, environmental concerns about the runoff of agrochemicals, resistance of weeds and crops to herbicides, and the need for a vastly improved understanding...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
With more than 500 species distributed all around the Northern Hemisphere, the genus Quercus L. is a dominant element of a wide variety of habitats including temperate, tropical, subtropical and mediterranean forests and woodlands. As the fossil record reflects, oaks were usual from the Oligocene...
Water Quality
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Water quality is important to everyone, but professionals in many disciplines need an understanding of this subject. Although water quality is complex, its general aspects can be grasped readily and with little background - only introductory chemistry and biology and a little algebra are needed. Unfortunately,...
Coffee Agroecology
A New Approach to Understanding Agricultural Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services and Sustainable Development
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Based on principles of the conservation and optimization of biodiversity and of equity and sustainability, this book focuses on the ecology of the coffee agroecosystem as a model for a sustainable agricultural ecosystem. It draws on the authors' own research conducted over the last twenty years...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
This book provides both the conceptual basis and technological tools that are necessary to identify and solve problems related to biodiversity governance. The authors discuss intriguing evolutionary questions, which involve the sometimes surprising adaptive capacity of certain organisms to dwell in...