Authors:Marcel Dicke, Willem Takken,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: frontis, series, wageningen, ecosystem, ecology, gene, chemical
Number of Pages: 197
Published: 2006-11-28
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 1402047924
ISBN-13: 9781402047923

This book provides an overview of chemical ecology related to different ecosystems. It offers an outlook at novel directions that can be taken in chemical ecology through a molecular-ecological or eco-genomic approach. The book addresses aboveground and belowground terrestrial systems as well as aquatic systems, and the organisms involved are micro- and macro-organisms, such as plants, arthropods and mammals.

Author: E. M. Chadwick
Publisher: Canadian Government Publishing
Keywords: publication, fisheries, aquatic, scienc, special, canadian, science, public, miramichi, ecosystem, water
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 1995-03
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0660159031
ISBN-13: 9780660159034

The 15 papers and 14 abstracts in this volume summarize all current research on the Miramichi’s aquatic ecosystem exchanged between scientists and the public at a 1994 workshop. They examine the physical environment, the biological environment and historical background of research on the Miramichi River and its estuary, which is home to 47 species of fish and an important over-wintering area. Human impacts, which affect the estuary most, include heavy metal pollution and pesticides, the effect of dredging, annual release of contaminants from pulp mills, and sewage on the

Authors:Philip J. Currie, Eva B. Koppelhus,
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: revealed, life, past, ecosystem, ancient, provincial, park, spectacular, dinosaur
Number of Pages: 672
Published: 2005-08-18
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0253345952
ISBN-13: 9780253345950

Dinosaur Provincial Park, located in Alberta, Canada, is one of the grand natural locales in the world. It has also produced an abundance of dinosaur fossils, including specimens from every known group of dinosaurs from the Cretaceous period. This book, published in celebration of the site’s 50th anniversary, is the first scientific overview of the park, its flora and fauna, its major fossil discoveries, and its ecology. Philip J. Currie and Eva B. Koppelhus, along with a team of 32 other scientists, present a comprehensive synthesis of information. Chapters include studies of the parkâ€

Authors:Charles J. Krebs, Stan Boutin, Rudy Boonstra,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: kluane, project, forest, boreal, dynamics, ecosystem
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2001-04-26
List price: $119.50
ISBN-10: 0195133935
ISBN-13: 9780195133936

The boreal forest is one of the world’s great ecosystems, stretching across North America and Eurasia in an unbroken band and containing about 25% of the world’s closed canopy forests. The Kluane Boreal Forest Ecosystem Project was a 10-year study by nine of Canada’s leading ecologists to unravel the impact of the snowshoe hare cycle on the plants and the other vertebrate species in the boreal forest. In much of the boreal forest, the snowshoe hare acts as a keystone herbivore, fluctuating in 9-10 year cycles, and dragging along secondary cycles in predators such as lynx and

Authors:Michel Loreau, Shahid Naeem, Pablo Inchausti,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: enviromental, science, perspectives, synthesis, ecosystem, functioning, biodiversity
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2002-11-28
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0198515715
ISBN-13: 9780198515715

The relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning has emerged as one of the most exciting and dynamic areas in contemporary ecology. Increasing domination of ecosystems by humans is steadily transforming them into depauperate systems. How will this loss of biodiversity affect the functioning and stability of natural and managed ecosystems? This volume provides the first comprehensive and balanced coverage of recent empirical and theoretical research on this question. It reviews the evidence, provides bases for the resolution of the debate that has divided scientists on these issu

Author: Diana H. Wall
Publisher: Island Press
Keywords: problems, committee, environment, scope, series, scientific, sediments, biodiversity, ecosystem, services, soils, sustaining
Number of Pages: 275
Published: 2004-11-19
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 1559637609
ISBN-13: 9781559637602

Sustaining Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Soils and Sediments brings together the world’s leading ecologists, systematists, and evolutionary biologists to present scientific information that integrates soil and sediment disciplines across terrestrial, marine, and freshwater ecosystems. It offers a framework for a new discipline, one that will allow future scientists to consider the linkages of biodiversity below-surface, and how biota interact to provide the essential ecosystemservices needed for sustainable soils and sediments.Contributors consider key-questions regarding soils

Authors:John Peine, Samab Foundatio,
Publisher: CRC Pre
Keywords: regional, biosphere, reserve, cooperative, illustrated, practices, management, sustainability, principles, ecosystem
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 1998-06-23
List price: $129.95
ISBN-10: 1574440535
ISBN-13: 9781574440539

As the 21st century approaches, the need to put principles of sustainable living and ecosystem management into practice has never been so urgent. Ecosystem Management for Sustainability recognizes this need and shares the experiences of the editor and 54 contributing authors, each leaders in the advancement of ecosystem management and champions of the natural environment. The book uses the Man And Biosphere program as a case example of a wide variety of resource management activities at work. Through the multi-authored contributions to this book, documentation of a comprehensive spectrum of ec