Ecology category: 3266 books
Human Impacts on Seals, Sea Lions, and Sea Otters
Integrating Archaeology and Ecology in the Northeast Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
For more than ten thousand years, Native Americans from Alaska to southern California relied on aquatic animals such as seals, sea lions, and sea otters for food and raw materials. Archaeological research on the interactions between people and these marine mammals has made great advances recently...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
This book pursues a multidisciplinary approach in order to evaluate the socio-ecological dimensions of infectious diseases in Southeast Asia. It includes 18 chapters written by respected researchers in the fields of history, sociology, ecology, epidemiology, veterinary sciences, medicine and the environmental...
Adaption of Microbial Life to Environmental Extremes
Novel Research Results and Application
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This entirely updated second edition provides an overview on the biology, ecology and biodiversity of extremophiles. Unusual and less explored ecosystems inhabited by extremophiles such as marine hypersaline deeps, extreme cold, desert sands, and man-made clean rooms for spacecraft assembly are presented....
by David Cabot, Roger Goodwillie
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
The Burren is one of those rare and magical places where geology, glacial history, botany, zoology and millennia of cultural history have converged to create a unique landscape of extraordinary natural history interest. It is without equal to any other area in Ireland or Britain. To the unsuspecting...
Phytoplankton Ecology
Structure, Function and Fluctuation
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
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Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2019
Resilience in Complex Socioecological Systems, Volume 60*,* the latest release in the Advances in Ecological Research series, includes specific chapters that cover Ecological Resilience, Socio-economic Resilience in Agriculture, Socio-ecological Resilience, Adaptive Capacity in Ecosystems, Tales of...
by Bruno David, Thomas Saucède
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
The Southern Ocean surrounding the Antarctic continent is vast, in particular, its history, its isolation, and climate, making it a unique "laboratory case" for experimental evolution, adaptation and ecology. Its evolutionary history of adaptation provide a wealth of information on the...
by Guillaume Becard
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
How Plants Communicate with Their Biotic Environment addresses how plants perceive the presence of organisms (other plants, microbes, insects and nematodes) living in their proximity, how they manage to be attractive when these organisms are friendly, and how they defend themselves from foes. Specific...
Small Cetaceans of Japan
Exploitation and Biology
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
This book summarizes and analyzes the biology, ecology, exploitation and management of small cetaceans in Japan. It describes the various types of cetacean fisheries in Japan and their historical development, the life histories and ecologies of the main species involved, and the history and problems...
Extremophile Fishes
Ecology, Evolution, and Physiology of Teleosts in Extreme Environments
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2015
This book summarizes the key adaptations enabling extremophile fishes to survive under harsh environmental conditions. It reviews the most recent research on acidic, Antarctic, cave, desert, hypersaline, hypoxic, temporary, and fast-flowing habitats, as well as naturally and anthropogenically toxic...
Insight on Environmental Genomics
The High-Throughput Sequencing Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Bringing together the latest methodological and scientific progress in the various research areas in the field of Environmental Genomics, this book discusses the characterization of the structure and dynamics of life, the study of the evolution and adaptation of genes and genomes, the analysis of...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Much effort has been devoted to developing theories to explain the wide variation we observe in reproductive allocation among environments. Reproductive Allocation in Plants describes why plants differ in the proportion of their resources that they allocate to reproduction and looks into the various...
Spatial Uncertainty in Ecology
Implications for Remote Sensing and GIS Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
This is one of the first books to take an ecological perspective on uncertainty in spatial data. It applies principles and techniques from geography and other disciplines to ecological research, and thus delivers the tools of cartography, cognition, spatial statistics, remote sensing and computer...
The Ecology of Animal Senses
Matched Filters for Economical Sensing
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
The collection of chapters in this book present the concept of matched filters: response characteristics “matching” the characteristics of crucially important sensory inputs, which allows detection of vital sensory stimuli while sensory inputs not necessary for the survival of the animal tend...