Ökologie

A Changing World

<P>Modern landscape research uses a panoply of techniques to further our understanding of our changing world, including mathematics, statistics and advanced simulation techniques to combine ...

Housing Contemporary Ireland

Geological Approaches to Coral Reef Ecology

<P>This book provides a unique perspective on the destruction - both natural and human-caused - of coral reef ecosystems. Reconstructing the ecological history of coral reefs, the authors ev...

White Sea

Nikolai Filatov / Dmitry Pozdnyakov / Olaf M. Johannessen / Lasse H. Pettersson / Leonid P. Bobylev

<P>This unique collaboration of Russian and Norwegian scientists examines the most recent data on the White Sea bathymetry, examines the ecosystem profile, and provides extensive historical ...

Galling Arthropods and Their Associates

<P>This book addresses recent developments in the ecology, evolution, systematics, physiology, and biodiversity of gall-inducing arthropods, with individual contributions ranging in scope fr...

Aquatic Oligochaete Biology IX

<P>This volume contains selected papers from the 9th Symposium on Aquatic Oligochaeta, 6–10 October 2003, Wageningen, The Netherlands. 18 contributions deal with the biology of aquatic oli...

Nature Conservation

<P>This book provides a multi-disciplinary coverage of the broad fields of species, community and landscape conservation. The panel of contributors consider a range of topics in vegetation a...

Biological Invasions

<P>This new volume on Biological Invasions deals with both plants and animals, differing from previous books by extending from the level of individual species to an ecosystem and global leve...

Marine Biodiversity

<P>This volume presents the four sub-themes of the 38th European Marine Biology Symposium. These are patterns and processes, assessment, threats and management and conservation. Understandin...

Arthropod Diversity and Conservation

<P>This collection of more than 30 peer-reviewed papers focuses on the diversity and conservation of arthropods, whose species inhabit virtually every recess and plane – and feature in vir...

Plants and Climate Change

<P>This book focuses on how climate affects or affected the biosphere and vice versa both in the present and in the past. The chapters describe how ecosystems from the Antarctic and Arctic, ...

Nitrogen Cycling in the Americas: Natural and Anthropogenic Influences and Controls

<P>Advances in our understanding of the nitrogen cycle and the impact of anthropogenic activities on regional to global scales depend on the expansion of scientific studies to these fast-dev...

Changing Land Use Patterns in the Coastal Zone

<P>Coastal ecosystems make up some of the most important and, yet, most endangered, regions in the world. The protection of the unique processes that take place in these ecosystems requires ...

Landscape Pattern Analysis for Assessing Ecosystem Condition

Glen D. Johnson / Ganapati P. Patil

<P>This book presents a new method for assessing spatial pattern in raster land cover maps based on satellite imagery in a way that incorporates multiple pixel resolutions. This is combined ...

Terrestrial Ecosystems in a Changing World

<P>This book examines the impacts of global change on terrestrial ecosystems. Emphasis is placed on impacts of atmospheric, climate and land use change, and the book discusses the future cha...

Microorganisms in Soils: Roles in Genesis and Functions

<P>For this third volume of the series Soil Biology, internationally renowned scientists shed light on the significant roles of microbes in soil. Key topics covered include: bioerosion, humi...

Exkursionsbericht Böhmerwald

Benny Alze / Jens Kusenberg

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Biologie - Ökologie, Note: 2,0, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Böhmerwald ist der tschechische Teil des Gebirgsmassiv...

The Becher Wetlands - A Ramsar Site

Christine Semeniuk

<P>This is a landmark study of the Holocene evolution and functioning of a suite of seasonal wetland basins in the temperate coastal zone of Western Australia, which were added to the the Ra...

Natural History of Families

Scott Forbes

Why do baby sharks, hyenas, and pelicans kill their siblings? Why do beetles and mice commit infanticide? Why are twins and birth defects more common in older human mothers? A Natural History of F...

Modern Biogeochemistry

Vladimir N. Bashkin

<P>This book is aimed at generalizing the modern ideas of both biogeochemical and environmental risk assessment that have been developed in recent years. Only a few books are available in th...