Ecology category: 3266 books
by Peter A. Henderson, T. R. E. Southwood
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
4th edition of this classic Ecology text
Computational methods have largely been replaced by descriptions of the available software
Includes procedure information for R software and other freely available software systems
Now includes web references for equipment, software and detailed methodologies
Wetland Techniques
Volume 2: Organisms
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Wetlands serve many important functions and provide numerous ecological services such as clean water, wildlife habitat, nutrient reduction, and flood control. Wetland science is a relatively young discipline but is a rapidly growing field due to an enhanced understanding of the importance of wetlands...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Oilseed rape is a major arable crop in both Europe and North America. It is attacked by unique complexes of insect pests still largely controlled through the application of chemical insecticides. Crop management systems for the future must combine sustainability with environmental acceptability to...
by Mamoru Watanabe
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
This book describes about 30 years of theoretical, empirical, and experimental work on butterfly sperm competition. It considers the reproductive morphology and sperm utilisation interests of males and females, which shape the mating tactics of each sex. Females of most butterfly species mate multiple...
Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates
Volume 3: Keys to Neotropical Hexapoda
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
Thorp and Covich’s Freshwater Invertebrates, Fourth Edition: Keys to Neotropical Hexapoda, Volume Three, provides a guide for identifying and evaluating a key subphylum, hexapoda, for Central America, South America and the Antarctic. This book is essential for anyone working in water quality management,...
Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates
Volume 4: Keys to Palaearctic Fauna
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2019
Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates: Keys to Palaearctic Fauna, Fourth Edition, is part of a multivolume series covering inland water invertebrates of the world that began with Vol. I: Ecology and General Biology (2015), then Vol. II (2016) Keys to Nearctic Fauna, and finally in Vol. III...
Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates
Keys to Nearctic Fauna
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2015
Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates: Keys to Nearctic Fauna, Fourth Edition presents a comprehensive revision and expansion of this trusted professional reference manual and educational textbook—from a single North American tome into a developing multivolume series covering inland water...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
This is the second volume since the reintroduction of the Recent Advances in Phytochemistry (RAP) series, an annual journal supported by the Phytochemical Society of North America. Topics appropriate for RAP include the biosynthesis of natural products and regulation of metabolism, the ecology of...
Integrated Land Use and Environmental Models
A Survey of Current Applications and Research
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
This volume is the result of an invited symposium titled "Integrated Land-Use and Environmental Models: A Survey of Current Applications and Research" that was held in October 2000 at Arizona State University. The idea for the symposium arose from a belief held by many academics that we...
The Adélie Penguin
Bellwether of Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
The Adélie penguin is one of the best-studied birds in the world and is the subject of research programs from a dozen nations interested in monitoring changes in the environment and the food webs of the Southern Ocean. This species' population has been changing dramatically over the past few decades...
Wetlands in Central Europe
Soil Organisms, Soil Ecological Processes and Trace Gas Emissions
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Wetlands are very sensitive ecosystems, functioning as a habitat for many organisms. Protection and regeneration of wetlands are of great importance in ecological research and in nature conservation. A huge amount of research has been done on the hydrology, plants and animals in wetlands. Knowledge...
Extinctions and Invasions
A Social History of British Fauna
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2010
Eight thousand years ago, when the sea cut Britain off from the rest of the Continent, the island's fauna was very different: most of the animals familiar to us today were not present, whilst others, now extinct, were abundant. Over the course of millennia humans have manipulated Britain's fauna....
Lost Fens
England's Greatest Ecological Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
The Lost Fens is the history of the cultural landscape of the Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, and Yorkshire Fenlands from the Humber and the Vale of York, to Norfolk. The book draws together the story of changing landscapes, lost cultures and ways of life, and the wildlife that has gone, too. This story...
Ecological Statistics
Contemporary theory and application
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
The application and interpretation of statistics are central to ecological study and practice. Ecologists are now asking more sophisticated questions than in the past. These new questions, together with the continued growth of computing power and the availability of new software, have created a new...