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Fish Nutrition

Fish Nutrition, Fourth Edition is an up-to-date, authoritative presentation of all key elements of the nutrition of fish and crustaceans....

Protist Diversity and Geographical Distribution

There is still a widespread belief that microscopic organisms, such as bacteria, fungi, protists, and small multicellulars, have a cosmop...

Lake Restoration Handbook - A New Zealand Perspective

Lakes across the globe require help. The Lake Restoration Handbook: A New Zealand Perspective addresses this need through a series of cha...

Challenges in Tropical Coastal Zone Management - Experiences and Lessons Learned

This book focuses on tropical coasts, which are highly vulnerable due to a multitude of stressors. Population growth is substantial, habi...

Emerging Issues in Fish Larvae Research

This book deals with the fundamentals of key physiological mechanisms involved in the development and growth of fish larvae. Chapters inc...

Dryland Ecohydrology

By combining the analysis of biotic and abiotic components of terrestrial ecosystems, this book synthesizes material on arid and semiarid...

Selective Breeding in Aquaculture: An Introduction - An Introduction

This book provides a basic introduction to selective breeding in aquatic species, and describes the concepts behind establishing and runn...

Habitability of Other Planets and Satellites

Is the Earth the right model and the only universal key to understand habitability, the origin and maintenance of life? Are we able to de...

Tree Species Effects on Soils: Implications for Global Change - Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Trees and Soil Interactions, Implications to Global Climate Change, August 2004, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

Almost 50% of the total area of Austria is forested, and the forests are dominated by commercially valuable stands of Norway spruce ( (Pi...

Biodiversity of Armenia

Armenia is a small landlocked mountainous country located in the Southern Caucasus. It is a typical mountainous country, having its lowes...

Composting for Sustainable Agriculture

The dramatic worldwide increase in agricultural and industrial productivity has created severe environmental problems. Soil and groundwat...

Soil Degradation, Conservation and Remediation

In view of the grave consequences of soil degradation on ecosystem functions, food security, biodiversity and human health, this book cov...

Shipping and the Environment - Improving Environmental Performance in Marine Transportation

This book focuses on the interaction between shipping and the natural environment and how shipping can strive to become more sustainable....

A Primer of Ecological Statistics

A Primer of Ecological Statistics, Second Edition explains fundamental material in probability theory, experimental design, and parameter...

Stream Ecology - Structure and Function of Running Waters

Stream Ecology: Structure and Function of Running Waters is designed to serve as a textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate stude...

Marine Biology - Comparative Ecology of Planet Ocean

Marine Biology: A Comparative Ecology Approach to Planet Ocean provides a learning tool to those who love the ocean to help them understa...

Global Biodiversity - Status of the Earth¿s Living Resources

Global Biodiversity is the most comprehensive compendium of conservation information ever published. It provides the first systematic rep...

The Diversity of Fishes - Biology, Evolution and Ecology

THE DIVERSITY OF FISHES The third edition of The Diversity of Fishes is a major revision of the widely adopted ichthyology textbook, inco...

Spatial Analysis - A Guide For Ecologists

An essential guide for graduates, researchers and professionals to spatial analysis and the fast-growing range of methods available.

Plant Ecology - Origins, Processes, Consequences

This book presents a global and interdisciplinary approach to plant ecology, guiding students through essential concepts with real-world ...

Ecology and Conservation of Mountain Nyala (Tragelaphus buxtoni) - in Bale Mountains National Park in Ethiopia

Antelopes in Ethiopia are facing increasing challenges posed by anthropogenic pressures emanating from habitat destruction for human sett...

Community Ecology

An accessible introduction to community ecology which looks at the linkages between communities separated in space (metacommunity dynamic...

A Forest Journey - The Role of Trees in the Fate of Civilization

A Foundational Conservation Story Revived Ancient writers observed that forests always recede as civilizations develop and grow. The grea...

Planet Earth III - Accompanies the Landmark Series Narrated by David Attenborough

The official tie-in to the third instalment in the legendary Planet Earth franchise Few places on Earth remain untouched by humans, creat...

Beetles of the World - A Natural History

Beetles make up about a quarter of known animal species and are arguably the most diverse group of organisms on Earth: almost 400,000 spe...

Caribou Rainforest: From Heartbreak to Hope

Gaia's Web - How Digital Environmentalism Can Combat Climate Change, Restore Biodiversity, Cultivate Empathy, and Regenerate the Earth

"This book explores how tools of the Digital Age might be mobilized to solve our most pressing environmental challenges, from climate cha...

The Bathysphere Book - Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths

"A gorgeous account of William Beebe's 1934 Bathysphere expedition, the first-ever deep-sea voyage to the otherworldly environment 3,024 ...

Coral Reefs - Majestic Realms under the Sea

An eye-opening introduction to the complexity, wonder, and vital roles of coral reefs

Elemental - How Five Elements Changed Earth's Past and Will Shape Our Future

"Over the past four billion years of Earth's history, three organisms-cyanobacteria, plants, and humans--have altered the planet in profo...

The Journeys of Trees: A Story about Forests, People, and the Future - A Story about Forests, People, and the Future

Forests are restless. When a tree dies or a new one sprouts, the forest that includes it shifts. When new trees sprout in the same direct...

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster

In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical - and accessible - plan for how the world can get to ze...

The Ecology Book - Big Ideas Simply Explained

An accessible introduction to ecological science, with nearly one-hundred events and developments explained. Features quotes from leading...

Ocean Bestiary - Meeting Marine Life from Abalone to Orca to Zooplankton

"Ocean Bestiary tells the history of our relationship with the sea, one animal at a time, from A to Z. From the earliest Polynesian navig...

The Milkweed Lands - An Epic Story of One Plant: Its Nature and Ecology

"Ecologist Eric Lee-Mèader and noted botanical artist Beverly Duncan have teamed up to create this unique exploration of the complex ecos...

Tree Story - The History of the World Written in Rings

What if the stories of trees and people are more closely linked than we ever imagined?

How Far the Light Reaches - A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

A fascinating tour of creatures from the surface to the deepest ocean floor: this "miraculous, transcendental book" invites us to envisio...

Strangers at the German Shores. Fremd an deutschen Küsten

Immer mehr Algen und wirbellose Tiere aus Übersee werden in deutsche Küstengewässer verschleppt. Sie integrieren sich, aber verändern die...

The Forest Unseen - A Year's Watch in Nature

A biologist reveals the secret world hidden in a single square meter of old-growth forest--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Pen/...

The Songs of Trees - Stories from Nature's Great Connectors

The author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Forest Unseen visits with nature's most magnificent networkers - trees "Both a love song to...

Ice Rivers - A Story of Glaciers, Wilderness and Humanity

Longlisted for the Wainwright PrizeShortlisted for the Richard Jeffries AwardThe story of one woman's passion for glaciersAs one of the w...

Deep - Freediving, Renegade Science and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves

Covering a diving championship in Greece on a hot and sticky assignment for Outside magazine, James Nestor discovered free diving. He had...

The Uninhabitable Earth - A Story of the Future

It is worse, much worse, than you think. The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it...

No One Is Too Small To Make a Difference

'We are the change and change is coming' In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to go to school o...

The Global Environmental Catastrophe Has Begun!

Huge forest and bush fires, gigantic downpours, dying forests, floods, drought disasters, and tornadoes - almost daily reports of disaste...

Modern Approaches in Vegetation Monitoring

This volume includes contributions to a symposium entitled State of the Art in Vegetation Monitoring Approaches and organized by the Swis...

Will China Save the Planet?

Now that Trump has turned the United States into a global climate outcast, will China take the lead in saving our planet from environment...

The living sea

No One Is Too Small To Make a Difference

'Everything needs to change. And it has to start today' In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to...

No One Is Too Small To Make a Difference

'Everything needs to change. And it has to start today' In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to...

Handbook of Agricultural Biotechnology, Volume 5 - Nanobiofertilizers

The Soils of Poland

This book gives an extensive characterisation of the soils of Poland, as well as information about soil-forming environment, soil cover d...

Biodiversity Mechanisms in Continuous Cultures

Foundations of Stream and River Ecology - A Guide to the Classic Literature

"For students and practitioners, a comprehensive primer on the key literature in stream and river ecology. The study of streams and river...

Laser-based Environmental and Process Measurement

This book presents an overview of the latest in research and development of laser-based and optical measurement techniques, which are uni...

The World Atlas of Deserts and Drylands

A richly illustrated atlas of the world’s deserts and drylands, their ecosystems, and their environments Deserts and drylands account for...

Why Ecosystems Matter - Preserving the Key to Our Survival

Darwin gained a profound insight into how complex ecosystems evolve through the interactions of their species. Here, visiting some remark...

Intertwined - From Insects to Icebergs

"This work is a collection of scientific stories that use the natural world to provide readers powerful reminders that many of our toughe...

Aquatic Habitats - Aquariums Inspired by Nature

In Aquatic Habitats, Tai Strietman transports readers from their living rooms to wild and beautiful freshwater habitats around the world.

Clover Garden - A Carolinian's Piedmont Memoir

Between North Carolina's coastal plain and the Blue Ridge Mountains lies the Piedmont: some 250 linear miles of rolling, long-settled lan...