Ecology category: 3266 books
Aquatic Animal Nutrition
A Mechanistic Perspective from Individuals to Generations
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2018
This book is a unique cross fertilization of aquatic ecology and aquaculture. It shows how diets structure the digestive tract and its microbiota and, in turn, the microbiota influences life history traits of its host, including behavior. Short-term starvation can have beneficial effects on individuals...
Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation (OPEN ACCESS)
Trade-offs and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Understanding how to sustain the services that ecosystems provide in support of human wellbeing is an active and growing research area. This book provides a state-of-the-art review of current thinking on the links between ecosystem services and poverty alleviation. In part it showcases the key findings...
The Current Status of the Date Palm Sector in the Gaza Strip, Palestine
An Ecological Survey and Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Master's Thesis from the year 2017 in the subject Biology - Ecology, grade: 90.50, Islamic University of Gaza (Faculty of Science), course: M. Sc. in biological sciences, language: English, abstract: Date Palm is considered one of the most important fruit crops in Palestine. Its cultivation has been...
An Introduction to Mathematical Population Dynamics
Along the trail of Volterra and Lotka
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2015
This book is an introduction to mathematical biology for students with no experience in biology, but who have some mathematical background. The work is focused on population dynamics and ecology, following a tradition that goes back to Lotka and Volterra, and includes a part devoted to the spread...
Kuwait
Urban and Medical Ecology. A Geomedical Study
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
by James H. Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
Social behavior occurs in some of the smallest animals as well as some the largest, and the transition from solitary life to sociality is an unsolved evolutionary mystery. In The Evolution of Social Wasps, James H. Hunt examines social behavior in a single lineage of insects, wasps of the family Vespidae....
The Drama of Conservation
The History of Pureora Forest, New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2015
This book offers a sweeping history of Pureora Forest Park, one of the most significant sites of natural and cultural history interest in New Zealand.
The authors review the geological history of the volcanic zone, its flora and fauna, and the history of Maori and European utilization of...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
This atlas aims to provide a ‘one-stop’ reference source of basic data on tropical marine ciliates that should be used for researchers worldwide. As one of main components, ciliates play vital roles in the microbial food web. Studies of ciliate diversity are, however, constrained by a lack of...
by Dave B. Nedwell, Dave G. Raffaelli, Alastair H. Fitter
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 1999
The importance and ecological significance of estuaries has been long appreciated. In the last few years, there has been increased research activity, resulting in significant advances in understanding of estuarine ecology. This special thematic volume of Advances in Ecological Research provides an...
by M. Begon, Alastair H. Fitter
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 1994
Concerns about the increasing greenhouse gases in our atmosphere and the resulting global effects have received high visibility in the general media as well as scientific journals. These concerns have been translatedinto several projects from the international scientific community-projects aimed to...
by Desmond Gahan
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Sustainable energy is energy that is consumed at insignificant rates compared to its supply and with manageable collateral effects, especially environmental effects. Another common definition of sustainable energy is an energy system that serves the needs of the present without compromising the ability...
Natura
ou les secrets du livre de la Nature
Language: French
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Tout ce que vous avez toujours voulu savoir sur la Nature, sans oser le demander !
Vous aimez la Nature ? Vous voulez retrouver la paix avec elle et l’aider à guérir ? Ce livre est votre livre, car il contient le remède !
Si vous souhaitez aller plus loin que...
Un Tejido Magico
El Bosque Tropical de Isla Barro Colorado (Spanish Edition)
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Barro Colorado Island is the crown jewel of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, and the most thoroughly studied tropical rainforest on Earth. This book reveals the extreme interconnections of life in a tropical forest, with lavishly beautiful full-color photographs. It gives an eyewitness...
The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh
A Walk Through the Forest that Inspired the Hundred Acre Wood
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Loved “Goodbye Christopher Robin”? Learn more about the real place that inspired the beloved stories.
Delve into the home of the world’s most beloved bear! The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh explores the magical landscapes where Pooh, Christopher Robin, and their friends live and play....