The Ecology Book

Part 1 book "Approaches to plant evolutionary ecology" included contents: The domain of evolutionary ecology; natural selection in the plant population; the common garden approach; reciprocal transplant experiments; molecular approaches.

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Part 1 book "Designing urban agriculture - A complete guide to the planning, design, construction, maintenance, and management of edible landscapes" included contents: Food cities - ecology urban agriculture; planning strategies for urban food systems; vision, synthesis and form.

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Part 1 of ebook "Sustainability and human resource management: Developing sustainable business organizations" provides readers with contents including: introduction into sustainability and HRM; the role of HRM in developing economically, socially and ecologically sustainable organisations; human-resources mindfulness; corporate human capital and social sustainability of human resources;...

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There are many different ways to do the philosophy of biology. At one end of a spectrum of possibilities would be works of general philosophical interest drawing on biological examples for illustration and support. This book aims to break new ground in the philosophy of biology. Before we turn to what is new, let us briefly look at the background from which contemporary philosophy of biology emerged.

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Ebook Food spoilage microorganisms: Ecology and control focuses on the occurrence, outbreak, consequences, control, and evaluation of spoilage microorganisms in food, providing the necessary basic knowledge of food spoilage ecology and control so as to ensure food safety, especially in developing countries where food hygiene in storage requires special care.

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This new edition of John Hannigan's well-known and respected text has been thoroughly revised to reflect recent conceptual and empirical advances in environmental sociology. The book offers a distinctive and even-handed treatment of environmental issues and debates, integrating European theoretical contributions such as risk society and ecological modernization with North American empirical insights and findings.

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This work explores the difficulties of solving contemporary environmental problems within existing global institutions. It questions guidelines set out in recent influential policy reports, and suggests new agendas for sustainability, industrial ecology, and institutional reform. Including case studies from the USA, Europe and China, this book investigates a wide range of environmental problems presently confronting experts worldwide.

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Part 1 of ebook "Principles for building resilience: Sustaining ecosystem services in social–ecological systems" provides readers with contents including: an introduction to the resilience approach and principles to sustain ecosystem services in social–ecological systems; politics and the resilience of ecosystem services; principle 1 – Maintain diversity and redundancy; principle 2 – Manage connectivity; principle 3 – Manage slow variables and feedbacks;...

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Part 2 of ebook "Buildings are for people: Human ecological design" provides readers with contents including: human ecological design; the concepts; the parameters of human ecology; performative expression; architecture - interfacing people and environments;...

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Part 1 of ebook "Buildings are for people: Human ecological design" provides readers with contents including: buildings intervene; interfaces enable change; manifestations of the building envelope; people; the struggle for green; sustainable design is human-centric; obstacles to successful execution;...

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Ebook "Coastal water bodies: Nature and culture conflicts in the mediterranean" targets researchers of various disciplines whose interest lies in the integrated sustainable management of coastal water bodies. The main topic of this book is not the ecology according to its accepted meaning, but rather the ‘places and people’ concerned – the coastal zones of the Mediterranean that are rich in ecological value and the local people who survive thanks to these environmental resources.

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Ebook "Long-term ecological research: Between theory and application" fills this gap by focusing on studies dealing with the investigation of complex, long-term ecological processes with regard to global change, the development of early warning systems, and the acquisition of a scientific basis for strategic conservation management and the sustainable use of ecosystems.

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Ebook "The impact of climate change on European lakes" includes chapters on the phenology and modelling of lake ice, the supply and recycling of nitrogen and phosphorus, the flux of dissolved organic carbon and the growth and the seasonal succession of phytoplankton. There are also chapters on the coherent responses of lakes to changes in the circulation of the atmosphere, the development of a web-based Decision Support System and the implications of climate change for the Water Framework Directive.

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Ebook "Contemporary ecology research in China" provides a platform for scientific research across a variety of disciplines. It will be invaluable to experts, policymakers and local officers and will also be a highly useful resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students.This book will allow researchers, students and policymakers outside China to learn about the significant achievements and applications of ecological research within China.

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Ebook "Three gorges dam: Environmental monitoring network and practice" has nine chapters, is an introduction to TGP, including the dam project, people resettlement, and power transmission, together with an overview of the pre-TGP ecological and environmental situation of the reservoir area and the Yangtze River basin as a whole. Devoted to the environmental impact assessment (EIA) of the TGP, which contains basic and background information about the TGP ecological and environmental monitoring system, including its arrangement and targets.

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Ebook "Ecological connectivity among tropical coastal ecosystems" provides a first-time comprehensive review of the major ecological interactions across tropical marine ecosystems that result from the mutual exchange of nutrients, organic matter, fish, and crustaceans. A group of leading authors from around the world reviews the patterns and underlying mechanisms of important biogeochemical and biological linkages among tropical coastal ecosystems in 15 chapters.

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Ebook "Marginality: Addressing the nexus of poverty, exclusion and ecology" is research based with original empirical analyses at local, national, and local scales; book contributors are leaders in their fields and have backgrounds in different disciplines. An important message of the book is that economic and ecological approaches and institutional innovations need to be integrated to overcome marginality.

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Ebook "Greening in the Red zone: Disaster, resilience and community greening" provides evidence for this assertion through cases and examples. The contributors to this volume use a variety of research and policy frameworks to explore how creation and access to green spaces in extreme situations might contribute to resistance, recovery, and resilience of social-ecological systems.

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Ebook "Sabkha ecosystems - Volume IV: Cash crop halophyte and biodiversity conservation" contains a number of articles dealing with halophyte ecology, bio-geography, ecophysiology, hyper-saline soils, biofuels, biosaline agriculture, biosaline landscaping, climate change mitigation, and biodiversity. It also contains the communication of innovative ideas, such as the research into floating mangroves, seagrass terraces, as well as a World Halophyte Garden containing all known salt-tolerant plant species.

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Ebook "Bioremediation technology: Recent advances" discusses bioremediation technology-based remediation to restore contaminated sites and protect the environment. It studies the opportunities for more efficient biological processes in molecular biology and ecology. Notable accomplishments of these studies include the cleaning up of polluted water and contaminated land. The book includes invited papers by eminent contributors who provide cost-effective bioremediation strategies to immobilize contaminants for cleanup of environment.

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