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Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 Advances in research trends in vegetables under a changing climate: A way forward -- Chapter 2 Emerging obstacles of vegetable production due to climate change and mitigation strategies -- Chapter 3 Impact of climate change on nutraceutical properties of vegetables -- Chapter 4 Nutritional stress management in vegetable crops under changing climate scenario -- Chapter 5 Impact of climate change on tuber crops production and mitigation strategies -- Chapter 6 Impact of climate change on leafy vegetables and mitigation strategies -- Chapter 7 Impact of climate change on perennial vegetable production and mitigation strategies -- Chapter 8 Impact of climate change on vegetables seed production and mitigation strategies -- Chapter 9 Protected cultivation of high-value vegetables crop under changing climate -- Chapter 10 Impact of climate change on underexploited vegetable crops production and mitigation strategies -- Chapter 11 Improvement of vegetables through grafting techniques in changing climate scenario -- Chapter 12 Improvement of vegetables through molecular breeding in changing climate scenario -- Chapter 13 Kitchen gardening for nutritional security under changing climate -- Chapter 14 Emerging insect-pests of vegetables due to changing climate -- Chapter 15 Emerging diseases of vegetables due to changing climate -- Chapter 16 Impact of climate change on postharvest quality of vegetables.

Description / Table of Contents: Foreword - Peter Singer -- Introduction: Biomedical Research in One World: Current and Future Challenges -- Part I - Biomedical Research -- Section One - Genetic and Cell Research -- Chap 1: Learning from Icarus: The Impact of CRISPR on Gene Editing Ethics -- Chap 2: Bioethical Decision Making and Genome Editing -- Chap 3: Therapeutic Genome Editing -- Chap 4: Bioethical Decision-Making about Somatic Cell Genome Editing: Sickle-Cell Disease as a Case Study -- Chap 5: Gene Therapy and Germline Cells Research -- Chap 6: Bioethical Quandaries in Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis -- Chap 7: Rare Disease Research -- Chap 8: Limits of Debate: Governance of Human Embryo Research and the Making of the Fourteen-Day Rule -- Chap 9 Human/Non-Human Chimeras -- Chap 10: Human Cloning: Recent Advances and Bioethical Issues -- Section Two - Enhancement Research -- Chap 11: The Evolutionary Optimality Challenge -- Chap 12: Mood Enhancement -- Chap 13: Superior Sport Performance: Ethical and Legal Issues -- Chap 14: Arguments over Life Extension in Contemporary Bioethics -- Section Three - Research with Human Biological Samples and Health Data -- Chap 15: Research with Human Biological Samples. Systematization of the Phases and Affected Rights -- Chap 16: Biobanks for Biomedical Research: Evolution and Future -- Chap 17: Biobanking in Global Health & Research -- Chap 18: Ethical and Legal Considerations in Genomic Data Sharing: Evolution of the Discourse and the Road Ahead -- Section Four - Biomedical Challenges in Research -- Chap 19: Human Challenge Trials in Pandemics: Risks and Benefits -- Chap 20: Ethical Considerations for Vaccine Research -- Chap 21: Global Health Partnerships and Emerging Infectious Disease -- Chap 22: Precision Medicine -- Chap 23: The Development, Implementation, and Oversight of Artificial -- Intelligence in Health Care: Legal and Ethical Issues -- Part II - Animals, Food and Environment -- Section One - Using Animals in Scientific Research -- Chap 24: The Use of Animals in Basic Biological Research -- Chap 25: The Use of Animals in the Study of Human Disease: Key Roles of General Ethical Principles -- Chap 26: Ethical Issues Concerning Genetically Modified Animals for the Study of Human Diseases -- Chap 27: Of Mice-Rats and Pig-Men: Ethical Issues in the Development of Human/Nonhuman Chimeras -- Chap 28: Animals in Research in Pharmaceutical Industry -- Chap 29: Animal Use in Toxicity Studies -- Chap 30: Ethical Issues from the Use of Animals in the Cosmetics and Fashion Industries -- Chap 31: Is it Time to Phase Out the Use of all Nonhuman Primates in Invasive Research? -- Chap 32: Growing Human Organs Inside Animals -- Chap 33: Animal Cloning -- Section Two - Decision Making and Alternatives to Animal Use in Research -- Chap 34: Replacement, Reduction and Refinement -- Chap 35: Integrating Human and Nonhuman Research Ethics -- Chap 36: Regulation of Animal Research -- Section Three - GMOs for Global Challenges -- Chap 37: Ethical Issues in Genetically Modified Foods: From Transgenesis to CRISPR-Cas9 Genome Editing Technology -- Chap 38: GMOs and Human and Environmental Safety -- Chap 39: GMOs and Sustainable Agriculture.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter. 1. A diverse array of microbial taxa affianced in bioremediation to counteract environmental pollution.-Chapter. 2. Aerobic processes: best approach for the treatment of wheat starch effluents -- Chapter. 3. Banned pesticides with high persistence: the impact of their use in agriculture and their removal by microbial biodegradation -- Chapter. 4. Bioremediations for Oil Spills by Utilizing Microbes -- Chapter. 5. Genetically engineered microorganisms for bioremediation processes -- Chapter. 6. Microbial Modifications and Biochemical Pathway-mechanism for ecosystem decontamination -- Chapter. 7. Innovative biofilms mediated as empiricist of bioremediation for sustainable development -- Chapter. 8. Major groups of microorganisms employed in bioremediation -- Chapter. 9. Microbial Exploration and their Metabolic Capacity for detoxification and Restoration of Natural Ecosystems -- Chapter. 10. Microbes in Restoration of Polluted Ecosystems -- Chapter. 11. Microbial Biotechnology: Energy generation approach from the environmental waste -- Chapter. 12. Microbial degradation of industrial pollutants from different environment -- Chapter. 13. Microbial enzymes and their importance in the environmental decontamination -- Chapter. 14. Structural and Functional Dynamics of Bacterial-world for Sustainability -- Chapter. 15. Plant-Associated Bacteria in Ecosystems Functioning and Sustainability -- Chapter. 16. The science of microbial enzymes as detoxification tool for inorganic and organic pollutants.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I - Tropical and Subtropical Brazilian Coastal Zone -- 1. Brazilian Coastal Zone: Mangroves and Salt Marshes -- 2. Zonation and succession of mangrove and salt marsh ecosystems: typical and associated vegetation species -- Part II - The Mangrove Ecosystem -- 3. Variability of Mangroves along the Brazilian Coast -- 4. Ecophysiological and phenology aspects of mangrove species on the Brazilian coast -- 5. Genetic and epigenetic diversity of mangrove plants: markers of adaptation in a changing environment -- 6. A Review on litterfall in Brazilian mangroves -- Part III - The Salt Marsh Ecosystem -- 7. Brazilian salt marshes -- Part IV - The Mangroves and Salt Marshes Associates -- 8. Microbial diversity and microbial food chain -- 9. Brazilian mangrove and salt marsh macroalgal communities -- 10. Invertebrates: Ecology macro and meiofauna associated with mangroves and marshes Brazilian -- 11. Biodiversity, ecology and socioeconomic importance of brachyuran crabs from Brazilian mangroves and salt marshes -- 12. Fish composition in mangroves and salt marshes along the Brazilian coast -- 13. Birds associated with mangroves and salt marshes in Brazil -- 14. Marine mammals and mangroves and mangroves and salt marshes in Brazil: past, present and potencial scenarios -- Part V - Conservation Strategies -- 15. Historical ecology of mangroves: investigating the past to conserve the future -- 16. Economic valuation as a tool for conservation of the Brazilian marine biodiversity of mangrove and salt marsh ecosystems -- 17. Mangrove protected areas in Brazil: controversies and perspectives -- 18. Contributions of environmental education to mangrove conservation -- 19. Magrove and salt marsh ecosystems: what to expect from climate changes -- 20. Coastal zone adaptive management -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: Introduction to squirrels of the world and their conservation trends. Chapter 1: The World’s Squirrel Taxonomy -- Chapter 2: Evolution, habitat trends, and extinction rate estimates of the world squirrels -- Part 2: Squirrels of the world in the Anthropocene. Chapter 3: Habitat Trends and the Squirrel-Human Interface -- Chapter 4: A Meta-analysis based on Open Access Big Data Mining of Global Predicted Squirrel Distribution Models with Machine Learning for IUCN Conservation Status and Trend Policy Assessments -- Chapter 5: Squirrels in Cities -- Chapter : Squirrels in the Tropics -- Chapter 7: Squirrels on Islands -- Chapter 8: Tree squirrels in old-growth forests? -- Chapter 9: Can squirrels be used as indicators to identify and protect old-growth forest reserves? -- Chapter 10: Squirrel Economics -- Part 3: Problems and governance in the squirrel world. Chapter 11: Squirrel Hunting Regulations and Enforcement (Or Lack Thereof) -- Chapter 12: Where do the World’s Squirrel Hotspots and Coldspots of 230+ species go with Climate change 2100? -- Chapter 13: Squirrel’s marginalization and modern lack of conservation and poor sustainability outlook as a call to good action -- Part 4: First conclusions and the way forward. Chapter 14: A Conservation Management SWOT analysis for over 300 Squirrels of the World using 132 GIS layers confirming the PESTLE assessment -- Chapter 15: First Conclusions, Success stories, and Calls-to-action for the conservation of the world’s squirrels.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction to Construction and Demolition Debris -- Chapter 2. Construction Materials and their Properties -- Chapter 3. CDD Composition -- Chapter 4. Generation -- Chapter 5. Hazardous and Dangerous Materials in CDD -- Chapter 6. CDD Recycling Approaches and Policies -- Chapter 7. Processing CDD for Recycling -- Chapter 8. Markets for Materials Recovered from CDD -- Chapter 9. CDD Landfills -- Chapter 10. Managing Disaster Debris -- Chapter 11. Sustainable Construction Materials Management.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- How we got here, and where we need to go: The bitter fight about meat and climate -- The consequences for climate of meat consumption -- The Limits of Vegetarianism -- The Benefits of Modern Efficiency -- The Limits of Efficiency -- The Miracle of Grass -- The limits of grass -- Lightening our Carbon Hoofprint -- Policy Pathways -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction: The Relevance of Anthropogenic Factors to Coral Reef Conservation in the Coastal Areas of the East China Sea -- Chapter 2. Transitional Coral Ecosystem of Taiwan in the Era of Changing Climate -- Chapter 3. Dynamics of Coral Reef Communities in the Sekisei Lagoon, Japan, Following the Severe Mass Bleaching Event of 2016 -- Chapter 4. Succession and Emergence of Corals in High-Latitude (Temperate) Areas of Eastern Asia into the Future -- Chapter 5. Succession and Spread of Coral Diseases and Coral-Killing Sponges with Special Reference to Microbes in Southeast Asia and Adjacent Waters -- Chapter 6. Succession of Ocean Acidification and its Effects on Reef-Building Corals -- Chapter 7. Anthropogenic Stresses in Coral Reefs and Adjacent Ecosystems of the East China Sea -- Chapter 8. Development of a Compact Experimental System for Ecotoxicological Experiments on Acropora spp. -- Chapter 9. Effects of Anthropogenic Chemicals on Hermatypic Corals with Special Reference to Gene Expression -- Chapter 10. Perspective for the Conservation of Coral Reefs in the East China Sea.

Description / Table of Contents: The Physical Template of Landscapes -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Gradient Analysis -- 1.2.1. Gradient Complexes -- 1.3. The Water Balance -- 1.3.1. A Simple Model: PET = AET + Deficit -- 1.4. Estimating Elements of the Template -- 1.4.1. Temperature -- 1.4.2. Radiation -- 1.4.3. Precipitation -- 1.4.4. Soils -- 1.5. Case Study: the Sierra Nevada -- 1.5.1. The Physical Template of the Sierra Nevada -- 1.6. Summary and Conclusions -- References -- Biotic Processes as Agents of Pattern -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. The “Pattern and Process” Paradigm -- 2.3. Coupling of Demographic Processes -- 2.4. Interaction with the Physical Template -- 2.4.1. Coupling Demography and the Physical Template -- 2.4.2. Competition along Environmental Gradients -- 2.4.3. Illustration: Gradient Response in the Sierra Nevada -- 2.4.4. The Unit Pattern Revisited -- 2.5. Dispersal as an Agent of Pattern -- 2.6. Animals, Pests, and Pathogens -- 2.6.1. Animals, Pests and Pathogens as Subtle Agents -- 2.6.2. Animals as Dramatic Agents -- 2.7. Summary and Conclusions -- References -- Disturbances and Disturbance Regimes -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.1.1 Context and Definitions -- 3.2. Perspectives and Lessons -- 3.2.1. Are Disturbances “Part of the System”? -- 3.2.2. Interactions, Synergies, and Indirect Effects -- 3.2.3. Disturbances and Positive Feedbacks -- 3.2.4. Overlapping Disturbances and Legacies -- 3.2.5. Heterogeneity in Disturbance and Response -- 3.3. Disaggregating Disturbance toward Generality. 3.3.1 A Not-too-General Model -- 3.3.2. The Fire Regime in the Sierra Nevada -- 3.4. Characteristic Dynamics -- 3.5. Humans and Disturbance Regimes -- 3.5.1. Human Impacts on Natural Disturbances - 3.5.2. Novel Disturbance Regimes -- 3.5.3 Human Perception and Landscape Change -- 3.6. Agents of Pattern: Reprise -- 3.7. Summary and Conclusions -- References 78 -- 4. Scale and Scaling - 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. The Importance of Scale in Ecology -- 4.2.1. Observational Scale as a Filter on Nature -- 4.2.2. Characteristic Scaling -- 4.2.3. Sampling Grain and Extent, and Statistical Behavior -- 4.3. Scaling Techniques -- 4.3.1. Scaling Techniques for Geostatistical Data -- 4.3.2. Illustration: Scaling of the Sierran Physical Template -- 4.4. Tactical Scaling -- 4.4.1. Tactical Targeting of Sampling Scale(s) -- 4.4.2. Avoid or Embrace Space? -- 4.5. Summary and Conclusions -- References -- 5. Inferences on Landscape Pattern -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Patchiness and Patches -- 5.2.1. Patch Definition -- 5.3. Landscape Pattern Metrics -- 5.3.1. Levels of Analysis -- 5.3.2. Components of Pattern -- 5.3.2 Correlation and Redundancy -- 5.3.4. Alternative Framings for Landscape Pattern -- 5.4. Interpreting Landscape Metrics -- 5.4.1. Neutral Models and Neutral Landscapes -- 5.4.2. Neutral Templates for Landscape Processes -- 5.4.3. Extending Neutral Models: Agents of Pattern -- 5.5. Explanatory Models and Inferences -- 5.5.1. Approaches to Inferences on Pattern -- 5.5.2. Illustrations -- 5.5. Explanatory Models and Inferences -- -- 5.5.1. Approaches to Inferences on Pattern -- 5.5.2. Illustrations -- 5.5.3. Inferences on Pattern: Area versus Configuration -- 5.5.4 Inferences on Pattern: the State-of-the-Art -- 5.6. Summary and Conclusions. References -- Implications of Pattern: Metapopulations -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Metapopulations in Theory -- 6.2.1. The Levins Model -- 6.2.2. The Spreading-of-Risk Model -- 6.2.3. The Source-Sink Model -- 6.2.4. The Incidence Function Model -- 6.2.5. Commonalities among Metapopulation Models -- 6.2.6. Characteristic Behaviors of (Model) Metapopulations -- 6.3. Metapopulations in Practice -- 6.3.1. Are there Real Metapopulations in Nature? -- 6.3.2. Macroscopic Approaches to Metapopulations -- 6.4. Network Models of Metapopulations -- 6.4.1. Graphs and Metapopulations -- 6.5. Metapopulations and Connectivity Conservation -- 6.5.1. Structural and Functional Connectivity -- 6.5.2. Metapopulations and Landscape Genetics -- 6.6. A Model Template for Applications -- 6.7. Summary and Conclusions -- References -- Supplement 6.1. Details on the Metapopulation Models -- S6.1.1. The Levins Model -- S6.1.2. The Spreading-of-Risk Model -- S6.2.3. The Source-Sink Model -- S6.2.4. The Incidence Function Model -- S6.2.5. Notes on the Individual-based Simulators Metapop1 -- Communities and Patterns of Biodiversity -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. Island Biogeography and Landscapes -- 7.2.1. Area and Isolation Effects -- 7.2.2. Island Biogeographic Theory and the SLOSS Debate -- 7.2.3. A Diversity of Diversities -- 7.3. Perspectives on Metacommunities -- 7.3.1. A General Framing -- 7.3.2. Inferences and Limits to Inference -- 7.4. Approaches and Lines of Evidence -- 7.4.1. The Incidence Matrix and Community Assembly -- 7.4.2. Metacommunity Models: Variations on a Theme -- 7.4.3. Species Distribution Models -- 7.4.4. Multvariate Approaches to Partitioning Beta-diversity -- 7.4.5. Lines of Evidence and Complementary Analyses -- 7.5. Illustration: Sierran Forests -- 7.5.1. The Perspective of Ordination and Gradient Analysis -- 7.5.2. Partitioning Beta-diversity -- 7.6. Managing Metacommunities -- 7.7. Summary and Conclusions -- References -- Supplement 7.1. Disciplinary Approaches (Details) -- S7.1.1. Incidence Matrices and Community Assembly -- S7.1.2. Metacommunity Models: Variations -- S7.1.3. Species Distribution Models -- S7.1.4. Ordination Techniques -- IImplications of Pattern for Ecosystems -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. Spatial Heterogeneity and Ecosystems -- 8.2.1. Spatial Heterogeneity in the Physical Template -- 8.2.2. Lateral Fluxes on Landscapes -- 8.2.3. Landform and Landscape Processes -- 8.2.4. Ecosystem Processes and Positive Feedbacks -- 8.2.5. Ecosystems are both Fast and Slow -- 8.3. Ecosystems and Landscape Legacies -- 8.4. Patch Juxtaposition and Edge Effects -- 8.4.1. Edge Effects, Revisited -- 8.4.2. Edges and Ecosystem Processes: Forest Carbon -- 8.5. Ecosystems and Meta-ecosystems -- 8.5.1. Couplings between Systems -- 8.5.2. Meta-ecosystems, Revisited -- 8.5.3. Implications of Meta-ecosystem Structure -- 8.6. Summary and Conclusions -- References -- Urban Landscapes -- 9.1. Introduction -- 9.2. Social-Environmental Systems -- 9.2.1. Approaches to Studying Cities -- 9.3. Agents and Implications of Pattern -- 9.3.1. Agents of Pattern -- 9.3.2. Scale and Pattern -- 9.3.3. Implications of Pattern -- 9.3.4. Revisiting the Agents-and-Implications Framing -- 9.4. Urban Landscapes as Laboratories -- 9.4.1. The Urban Stream Syndrome -- 9.4.2. Cities as Mesocosms for Global Change -- 9.5. Summary and Conclusions -- References -- 10. Climate Change: Adapting for Resilience -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2. Framing Adaptation -- 10.2.1. Components of Climate Change -- 10.2.2. The Perspective of Risk Management -- 10.2.3. Options for Response and Adaptation -- 10.2.4. Resilience Planning: the Tasks at Hand -- 10.3. Approaches to Adaptation Planning -- 10.3.1. Levels of Activity and Currency of Assessments -- 10.3.2. Elements of Adaptation -- 10.3.3. A Template for Applications -- 10.4. Illustrations of Approaches -- 10.4.1. NatureServe’s HCCVI -- 10.4.2. Species Range Shifts implied by Climate Change -- 10.4.3. TNC’s Resilient Landscapes Initiative -- 10.4.4. The ACT Framework -- 10.4.5. Complementarity of Approaches -- 10.5. Collateral Benefits and Leverage -- 10.5.1. Adaptation Planning and Conservation Practice -- 10.5.2. Collateral Benefits -- 10.5.3. Adaptation and Mitigation -- 10.6. Summary and Conclusions -- References -- Index.. .

Description / Table of Contents: Part I. Biology and Culture -- Chapter 1. Speciesism in Biology and Culture: How Human Exceptionalism is Pushing Planetary Boundaries -- Chapter 2. Race and Human Genomic Variation -- Chapter 3. Science Without Species: Doing Science With Tree-Thinking -- Part II. Culture and History -- Chapter 4. The Colonization of Islands as Microcosms for Human Impacts on an Interplanetary Scale -- Chapter 5. Species, God, and Dominion -- Chapter 6. Symbols and How We Came to be Human -- Part III. Conservation and Law -- Chapter 7. Law and Nature: Human, Nonhuman, and Ecosystem Rights -- Chapter 8. A Phylogenetic Approach to Conservation: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning for a Changing Globe -- Part IV. Sustainability and the Future -- Chapter 9. Energy and Society: Toward a Sustainable Future.

Description / Table of Contents: Intro: Navigating Patagonian freshwaters- and this book -- 1: Are freshwaters wetlands? -- 2: Patagonian Andean lakes and climate change -- 3: Current state and recent changes of glaciers in the Patagonian Andes (35 °S to 55°S) -- 4: Biogeographical patterns of Patagonian freshwater microbiota -- 5: Extreme freshwater ecosystems from Patagonia: The Copahue-Agrio system -- 6: Mercury in aquatic systems of North Patagonia: sources, processes and trophic transfer -- 7: Diversity patterns across aquatic communities from peat bogs -- 8: Hydrologic Systems, water uses and emerging conflicts around freshwater availability in Patagonia -- 9: Land-use effects on aquatic ecosystems: An overview of environmental impacts and tools for ecological assessment -- 10: Patagonian wetlands: vertientes, vegas, mallines,turberas and lagunas -- 11: Fish and fisheries of the Patagonian steppe -- 12: Invasive species: The case of Didymosphenia geminata in Neuquén Province -- 13: Influence of the fish introduction in lakes of the arid Patagonia -- 14: Patagonian cultural limnology: knowledge and water management in Mapuche rural communities -- 15: Political Ecology, water valoration and Water Law deliberation in the Province of Tierra del Nacional de Tierra del Fuego -- 16: Freshwater systems in protected areas in Patagonia -- 17: Amphibians and waterbirds as bridges to conserve aquatic and terrestrial habitat in Patagonia -- 18: Integrated long term conservation strategies to recover the critically endangered Hooded Grebe (Podiceps gallardoi),an endemic waterbird of Austral Patagonia -- Conclusion: Reaching out for the UNDP Sustainable Development Goals in Patagonia.

Description / Table of Contents: Global plant invasions on the rise -- Invasion of plant communities -- Development of pathways of global plant invasions in space and time -- Plant invasions, rising CO2, and global climate change -- Plant invasions in Asia -- A historical perspective on plant invasion in Australia -- European plant invasions -- Plant invasions in North America -- Plant invasions in South America -- Biological invasions by plants in continental Central America -- Plant invasions in Africa -- Island plant invasions -- Plant invasions in mountains -- Biotic and economic impacts of plant invasions -- Advances in the management of invasive plants -- Moving towards global strategies for managing invasive alien species -- A Future planet of weeds?.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Geo-hazards in Langtang, Nepal -- 2. Impact of climate change on the onset of floods in the Ganges river in Bangladesh -- 3. Water issues in Sri Lanka -- 4. NDVI variability in Bangladesh -- 5. Agro-ecosystems in the Brahmaputra Valley, India -- 6. Going, going, gone? Declining vegetation health in Nepal -- 7. Politics of Urban Land use Planning in South Asia 8. Environmental issues in Myanmar -- 9. Above ground biomass assessment and carbon sequestration potentials in Bhutan -- 10. Prioritization of flood prone villages in Indo-Bangladesh using analytical hierarchy process and geospatial techniques.

Description / Table of Contents: PART I INTRODUCTION: 1. Isotope Dendrochronology: Historical Perspective -- 2. Dendrochronology: Fundamentals and Innovations -- 3. Anatomical, developmental and physiological bases of tree-ring formation in relation to environmental factors -- PART II METHODS: 4. Sample collection and preparation for annual and intra-annual tree-ring isotope chronologies -- 5. Stable isotope signatures of wood, its constituents and methods of cellulose extraction -- 6. Tree-Ring Stable Isotope Measurements: The Role of Quality Assurance and Quality Control to Ensure High Quality Data -- 7. Newer Developments in Tree-Ring Stable Isotope Methods -- PART III: ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATIONS FROM SOURCE TO WOOD: 8. Isotopes – terminology, definitions and properties -- 9. Carbon isotope effects in relation to CO2 assimilation by tree canopies -- 10. Environmental, physiological and biochemical processes determining the oxygen isotope ratio of tree-ring cellulose -- 11. The stable hydrogen isotopic signature: From source water to tree rings -- 12. Nitrogen isotopes in tree rings – Challenges and prospects -- 13. Postphotosynthetic fractionation in leaves, phloem and stem -- PART IV PHYSIOLOGICAL INTERPRETATIONS: 14. Environmental fingerprints in tree-ring stable isotopes: Limits and strengths in mirroring environmental impacts -- 15. Post-photosynthetic carbon, oxygen and hydrogen isotope signal transfer to tree rings – how timing of cell formations and turnover of stored carbohydrates affect intra-annual isotope variations -- 16. Probing tree physiology using the dual-isotope approach -- 17. Intrinsic water-use efficiency derived from stable carbon isotopes of tree-rings -- PART V: ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS IMPACTING THE ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION: 18. Spatial and temporal variations in plant source water: O and H isotope ratiosfrom precipitation to xylem water -- 19. Climate signals in stable isotope tree ring records -- 20. Stable isotopes in tree rings of Boreal Forests -- 21. Stable isotopes in tree rings of Mediterranean Forests -- 22. Stable isotopes in tree rings of Tropical forests -- 23. Forest Management and Tree-Ring Isotopes -- 24. Impact of increasing CO2, and air pollutants (NOx, SO2, O3) on the stable isotope ratios in tree rings -- 25. Insect and pathogen influences on tree-ring stable isotopes -- 26. Process-based ecophysiological models of tree-ring stable isotopes.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. The Role of the Forest-Based Sector in the Bioeconomy and Climate Change (Hetemäki and Kangas) -- Chapter 2. Planetary Boundaries and the Role of the Forest-Based Sector (Hetemäki and Seppälä) -- Chapter 3. Climate Change, Impacts, Adaptation and Risk Management in Forests (Venäläinen et al.) -- Chapter 4. Outlook for a Forest-Based Bioeconomy (Hurmekoski et al.) -- Chapter 5. Forest Biomass Availability (Anttila and Verkerk) -- Chapter 6. Carbon Sequestration and Storage in the Forests of the European Union (Kilpeläinen and Peltola) -- Chapter 7. Contribution of Wood-Based Products to Climate Change Mitigation (Hurmekoski et al.) -- Chapter 8. Synthesis: Climate-Change Mitigation in the Forest-Based Sector (Hurmekoski et al.) -- Chapter 9. Climate-Smart Forestry Approach (Hetemäki and Verkerk) -- Chapter 10. Climate-Smart Forestry Case Study: Czech Republic (Emil Cienciala) -- Chapter 11. Climate-Smart Forestry Case Study: Finland (Peltola et al.) -- Chapter 12. Climate-Smart Forestry Case Study: Germany (Hanewinkel et al.) -- Chapter 13. Climate-Smart Forestry Case Study: Spain (Trasobares et al) -- Chapter 14. The Way Forward: Management and Policy Actions (Hetemäki et al.) .

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. An Introduction to Climate-Smart Forestry in mountain regions -- Chapter 2. Defining climate-smart forestry -- Chapter 3. Assessment of indicators for climate smart management in mountain forests -- Chapter 4. National Forest Inventory data to evaluate Climate-Smart Forestry -- Chapter 5. Efficacy of trans-geographic observational network design for revelation of growth pattern in mountain forests across Europe -- Chapter 6. Changes of tree and stand growth. Review and implications -- Chapter 7. Modelling future growth of mountain forests under changing environments -- Chapter 8. Climate-smart silviculture in mountain regions -- Chapter 9. Smart harvest operations and timber processing for improved forest management -- Chapter 10. Continuous monitoring of tree responses to climate change for smart forestry – a cybernetic web of trees -- Chapter 11. Remote sensing technologies for assessing climate-smart criteria in mountain forests -- Chapter 12. Economic and social perspective of Climate-smart Forestry: incentives for behavioral change to climate-smart practices in the long-term -- Chapter 13. Assessing the economic impacts of climate change on mountain forests: a literature review -- Chapter 14. Review of policy instruments for climate-smart mountain forestry -- Chapter 15. The role of forests in climate change mitigation: the EU context -- Chapter 16. Smartforests Canada – A network of monitoring plots for forest management under environmental change -- Chapter 17. Climate-Smart Forestry in Brazil.

Description / Table of Contents: Agri-food systems are facing a growing climate change problem and opportunity (Introduction) -- 2. Putting a farm into an emissions test lab -- 3. Governance issues in carbon emissions – can a food emissions gate be avoided? -- 4. How difficult is it to reach carbon neutrality? Tales of different agri-food chains -- 5. Carbon neutrality as business: decoupling growth from emissions while managing climate risks -- 6. Towards a carbon labelled world? -- Conclusions.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: values of pollution free atmosphere -- Plant and Algae Classes Recognition, Biomass Production and Potential Source of Biofuel -- Plant and Algae Metabolites Alternative and Clean Source of Energy -- Mechanism and methods of extraction of biofuels -- Metabolic routes to biofuels extraction -- Optimizations on steps involved on biofuel obtainment and their validation -- Economic consideration on biofuel and energy security -- Technical challenges of biofuel obtainment -- Conclusion and Future Perspectives.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- 1. The need to preserve cultural heritage; Karol Król et al -- 2. The Italian National Register of historical rural landscape; Mauro Agnoletti, Antonio Santoro -- 3. Cultural heritage in the region of Eastern Slovakia; Slavomír Marcinčák et al -- 4. Agricultural and food heritage of the Moravian region; Martin Král et al -- 5. Wine quality as a part of cultural heritage affected by different geographical origins; Martina Fikselová et al -- 6. Food and meals from a cultural-historical perspective; Josef Kameník -- 7. Regional gastronomy as transmitter of cultural heritage; Agnieszka Filipiak-Florkiewicz et al -- 8. Culinary traditions of the Lemkovyna; Marcin Łukasiewicz et al -- 9. Genetic uniqueness of local cattle populations as part of homeland heritage; Radovan Kasarda, Nina Moravčíková -- 10. Objectification of reliability of selected methods of identification and quantification of meat and its substitutes; Jozef Golian et al -- 11. Traditional cheeses from the Malopolska region; Dorota Najgebauer-Lejko, Jacek Domagała -- 12. Traditional unfermented and fermented liquid milk products from the Malopolska region; Domagała Jacek, Najgebauer-Lejko Dorota -- 13. Farm animals and traditional products of the Carpathian Mountains; Władysław Migdał et al -- 14. Traditional crops cultivated in southern Malopolska; W. Berski et al -- 15. Fruits of traditional varieties; Jacek Słupski et al -- 16. Edible mushrooms of the Polish Carpathians; Emilia Bernaś et al -- 17. Usage of wild growing plants as foodstuffs; Piotr Gębczyński et al -- 18. Ecological structure of cultural landscapes in suburban areas; Renata Różycka-Czas, Barbara Czesak -- 19. South African agriculture/viniculture, land ownership, and sustainable development; Betty J. Harris, Edward Sankowski -- 20. Metamorphosis of the Polish villages as a result of semi-urbanization; Magdalena Wilkosz- Mamcarczyk, Barbara Olczak -- 21. Assessment of land-use and land-cover changes in a rural cultural landscape: the case of a Polish municipality; Tomasz Noszczyk et al -- 22. Land use and landscape in rural China after 40 years of reform and opening up; Chen Gaiying et al -- 23. Rural areas in historical cities; Bohdan Cherkes.24. Sustainable economic development and cultural landscapes: some US-Poland comparisons and connections; Edward Sankowski.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I. Introduction -- Chapter 1. Metal Munching Microbes -- Chapter 2. Chemical Constraints for Transition Metal Cation Allocation -- Part II. Understanding Commonality of the Basic Processes -- Chapter 3. The Mosaic Landscape of Algal Metal Transport and Usage -- Chapter 4. Metal-based Antimicrobials – Uses and Challenges -- Part III. When Microbes are the Best Tool for the Job -- Chapter 5. Microbial Consortium: A Promising Strategy for Bioleaching of Metals from Industrial Wastes -- Chapter 6. Molecular Mechanisms that Mediate Microbial Synthesis of Metal Nanoparticles -- Chapter 7. Bacterial Production of Metal(loid) Nanostructures -- Part IV. Uniqueness of the Elements -- Chapter 8. Microbes: Key Players of the Arsenic Biogeochemical Cycle -- Chapter 9. Microbial Transformations of Antimony -- Chapter 10. Microbial Remediation of Chromium -- Chapter 11. Microbial Interactions with Gold and Uranium -- Chapter 12. Prokaryotic Ferrous Iron Transport: Exploiting Pools of Reduced Iron Across Multiple Microbial Environments -- Chapter 13. Pterin Containing Microbial Molybdenum Enzymes -- Chapter 14. Microbial Metabolism of Nickel -- Chapter 15 -- Microbial Transformation of Silicon in Soil -- Chapter 16. Microbial Interactions with Titanium -- Chapter 17. Microbial Tungsten Assimilation -- Chapter 18. Vanadium-based Transformations Effected by Algae and Microbes -- Chapter 19. How Is a Zinc Ion Correctly Allocated to a Zinc-Dependent Protein?.

Description / Table of Contents: 1)Sources of selenium and nano-selenium in soil and plants -- (2)Use of selenium and nano-selenium in agro-biotechnologies -- (3)Selenium and nano-selenium as a new frontier of biostimulants -- (4)Selenium and nano-selenium in plant nutrition and crop quality -- (5)Uptake and metabolism of selenium in plants: recent progress and future perspectives -- (6)Synthesis and characterization of nano-selenium using plant biomolecules and their potential applications -- (7)Selenium and nano-selenium mediated salt stress tolerance in plants -- (8)Selenium and nano-selenium mediated drought stress tolerance in plants -- (9)Selenium and nano-selenium mediated heat stress tolerance in plants -- (10)Selenium and nano-selenium mediated cold stress tolerance in plants -- (11)Selenium and nano-selenium mediated heavy metal stress tolerance in plants -- (12)Selenium and nano-selenium mediated biotic stress tolerance in plants -- (13)Selenium bioavailability and nutritional improvements in crop plants -- (14)Effect of selenium application on quality improvements of seeds and fruits -- (15)The genetics of selenium accumulation by plants: recent progress and future perspectives -- (16)Agronomic bio-fortification crops with exogenous selenium application -- (17)Selenium toxicity and tolerance in plants: recent progress and future perspectives -- (18) Selenium bio-fortification for quality and nutritional improvements -- (19)Manipulation of selenium metabolism in plants for tolerance and accumulation -- (20)Selenium hyper-accumulation and phytoremediation: recent progress and future perspectives -- (21) Selenium in food chain in relation to human and animal nutrition and health.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I: About Environmental Education -- Chapter 1 - Training and dissemination about the Environment: keys to impulse the abiotic component of Environmental Education -- Chapter 2 Educating to deliver environmentally focused social innovation -- Chapter 3 - Environmental education for sustainable development: working for fundamental rights -- Chapter 4 - Nature as a teaching resource and the nature of learning -- Part II: Environmental Education and it´s Teaching -- Chapter 5 - The importance of Nature-based solutions to enhance Cabo Verde's Environment -- Chapter 6- Development of Scientific Literacy and the impact of environmental attitudes of citizens in a geological natural space -- Chapter 7- A PBL approach to Environmental Education through a Field Trip and a Science Centre Visit -- Chapter 8- Living labs in higher education: sustainable buildings technologies -- Chapter 9 - What is doing Latin America regarding the teaching of Nature-based solutions to boost Environmental Education? -- Chapter 10 - Lessons learned from including aquaponic experiments into five different tertiary education curricula -- Chapter 11 - Recommendations for promoting Environmental Education through Nature-based solutions at Turkish Higher Education Institutes -- Part III: Environmental Education and Social Engagement -- Chapter 12 - Bees and Society: native biodiversity as a strategy for environmental education based on the processes of nature -- Chapter 13- Perceptions about Sustainable Development of visitants in an Environmental Education Natural Park -- Chapter 14 - Start Park project: co-designing green-blue infrastructures to build resilient communities to climate change -- Chapter 15 - Societal embedding in geoparks: a case study in Portugal -- Chapter 16 - Environmental Education in Naturtejo UNESCO Global Geopark (Portugal): a nature-based approach -- Part IV: – Environmental Education and Nature-Based Solutions -- Chapter 17- Green Roof and walls technology standardisation and market across Europe -- Chapter 18- How Nature-Based Solutions can Contribute to Enhance Circularity in Cities -- Chapter 19- Nature-based solutions to promote environmental education on integral ecological sanitation -- Chapter 20 - Nature-based solutions for environmental education in the East Asian context -- Chapter 21- Decarbonizing the European energy sector: frameworks, examples and how education plays a key role -- Chapter 22- Nature-based solutions for water pollution control: promoting environmental education through case studies.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1:doomsday shelfs -- Chapter 2:incoming storms -- Chapter 3:the beryllium-10 factor -- Chapter 4:absentis diebus quattuor -- Chapter 5:a clou within the frozen eyewall -- Chapter 6:doomed logistics -- Chapter 7:the evacuation attempt -- Chapter 8:lone -- Chapter 9:salvaging -- Chapter 10:the plight of the emperors -- Chapter 11:journeying -- Chapter 12:as the last continent vanishes -- Chapter 13:a floating archipelago -- Chapter 14:quantum ecodynamic substrates -- Chapter 15:looming equations for lost and found -- Chapter 16:gardens in the fog -- Chapter 17:the legacy of Thomas ralph merton -- Chapter 18:petrus discovers wonderland -- Chapter 19:in the morning -- Chapter 20:1400 miles to bruges -- Chapter 21:adventure in Extremadura -- Chapter 22:the French -- Chapter 23:affable landscapes -- Chapter 24:coming into focus -- Chapter 25:going home -- Chapter 26:a new life -- Chapter 27:rights of passage -- Chapter 28:the state of the world, cont. -- Chapter 29:a stroll through town -- Chapter 30:the castle -- Chapter 31:acclimation -- Chapter 32:basics -- Chapter 33:the codex stefanus -- Chapter 34:the emergency beacon -- Chapter 35:the science of restraint -- Chapter 36:ethical choices and fine wine -- Chapter 37:something not human -- Chapter 38:and that night -- Chapter 39:that day -- Chapter 40:miracles -- Chapter 41:town crier -- Chapter 42:genes and molecules awry -- Chapter 44:leviathans -- Chapter 45:dinner with hans -- Chapter 46:the radio -- Chapter 47:the search for dulce -- Chapter 48:stranger memories -- Chapter 49:new world -- Chapter 50:coda.

Description / Table of Contents: Foreword -- Part I: Introduction – Traditional cultural landscapes in the world -- Part II: A sustainable balance between intensively and extensively used landscapes -- Part III: Traditional cultural landscapes on the world’s agenda -- Part IV: Restoration and revitalization of traditional cultural landscapes towards multifunctionality -- Part V: Case studies - Restoration of traditional cultural landscapes put into practice -- Part VI: Conclusions Take-home messages based on the book are shortly summarized. .

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Meta-Observation -- 2. What it Means to be El Niño Ready -- 3. Case study overviews -- 4. Africa -- 4.1 Ethiopia -- 4.2 Kenya -- 4.3 South Africa -- 4.4 Zimbabwe -- 5. Asia -- 5.1 China -- 5.2 Vietnam -- 5.3 The Philippines.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: A Brief Introduction to Hot Desert Environments: Climate, Geomorphology, Habitats and Soils -- Chapter 2: Novel methods for studying the structure and function of hot desert microorganisms and their communities -- Chapter 3: Phototrophic Mats of the Desert: The Bacteria of the Biological Soil Crust Community- Chapter 4: Microbial Ecology of Hot Desert Soils -- Chapter 5: Biology of Desert Endolithic Habitats -- Chapter 6: Journey of a thousand miles: The evolution of our understanding of viruses in hot Deserts -- Chapter 7: C, N and P nutrient cycling in Drylands -- Chapter 8: Diversity and plant growth promoting properties of microbiomes associated with plants in desert soils -- Chapter 9: Insights of Extreme Desert Ecology to the Habitats and Habitability of Mars -- Chapter 10: Survival under stress: Microbial adaptation in hot desert soils -- Chapter 11: The response of soil microbial communities to hydration and desiccation cycles in hot desert ecosystems -- Chapter 12: Hot Desert Microbiology: Perspectives in a Warming World.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I. Introduction -- Chapter 1. Why Study Urbanization in Southeast, East, and North Asia (SENA)? -- Chapter 2. The Research Design -- Part II. Land and Population -- Chapter 3. Urban Land Transition -- Chapter 4. Urban Population Dynamics -- Part III. Urban Environmental Challenges -- Chapter 5. Urban Air Pollution -- Chapter 6. Urban Green Space -- Part IV. Driving Urbanization: The Visible Hand of the State -- Chapter 7. Governing the Land -- Chapter 8. Transforming Urban Planning -- Chapter 9. From Planning to the Change of Urban Landscape -- Chapter 10. Conclusion -- Postface.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I -- 1. Voices of Justice and Equality in Struggles for Change -- 2. Science, Technology, and the Discourse on Development: Mira Behn and Sarala Behn in a Colonial World and in Gandhi’s India -- 3. Mira Behn: Environment and Development -- 4. Sarala Behn: Nai Talim, Social Transformation, and the Rise of Local Women’s Power -- Part II -- 5. Crucial Roles of Mira Behn and Sarala Behn in the Emergence of the Sarvodaya Environmental Movements -- 6. The Bridge Builders: The Integrative Philosophy of Mira Behn and Sarala Behn.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Historical review of research on Arctic and Subarctic Aleocharinae -- Material and methods -- Impact of climate change on northern fauna and flora -- Aleocharinae as indicators of change -- Faunal analysis and discussion -- Key to tribes occurring in Arctic and Subarctic zones -- Tribe Gymnusini Heer, 1839 -- Tribe Aleocharini Fleming, 1821 -- Tribe Oxypodini C.G. Thomson, 1859 -- Tribe Tachyusini C.G. Thomson, 1859 -- Tribe Hypocyphtini Laporte, 1835 -- Tribe Myllaenini Ganglbauer, 1895 -- Tribe Liparocephalini Fenyes, 1918 -- Tribe Homalotini Heer, 1839 -- Tribe Placusini Mulsant and Rey, 1871 -- Tribe Athetini Casey, 1910 -- Tribe Falagriini Mulsant and Rey, 1873.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction (Deborah C. Hayes, Becky K. Kerns, Toral Patel-Weynand, and Deborah M. Finch) -- Chapter 2. Impacts of Invasive Species in Terrestrial and Aquatic Systems in the United States (Albert E. Mayfield III, Steven J. Seybold, Wendell R. Haag, M. Tracy Johnson, Becky K. Kerns, John C. Kilgo, Daniel J. Larkin, Rima D. Lucardi, Bruce D. Moltzan, Dean E. Pearson, John D. Rothlisberger, Jeffrey D. Schardt, Michael K. Schwartz, and Michael K. Young) -- Chapter 3. Impacts of Invasive Species on Forest and Grassland Ecosystem Processes in the United States (Chelcy Ford Miniat, Jennifer M. Fraterrigo, Steven T. Brantley, Mac A. Callaham, Jr., Susan Cordell, Jeffrey S. Dukes, Christian P. Giardina, Shibu Jose, and Gary Lovett) -- Chapter 4. Effects of Climate Change on Invasive Species (Deborah M. Finch, Jack L. Butler, Justin B. Runyon, Christopher J. Fettig, Francis F. Kilkenny, Shibu Jose, Susan J. Frankel, Samuel A. Cushman, Richard C. Cobb, Jeffrey S. Dukes, Jeffrey A. Hicke, and Sybill K. Amelon) -- Chapter 5. Invasive Species Response to Natural and Anthropogenic Disturbance (Susan E. Meyer, Mac A. Callaham, Jr., Jane E. Stewart, and Steven D. Warren) -- Chapter 6. Early Intervention Strategies for Invasive Species Management: Connections Between Risk Assessment, Prevention Efforts, Eradication, and Other Rapid Responses (Robert C. Venette, Doria R. Gordon, Jennifer Juzwik, Frank H. Koch, Andrew M. Liebhold, Robert K.D. Peterson, Sharlene E. Sing, and Denys Yemshanov) -- Chapter 7. Management of Landscapes for Established Invasive Species (Therese M. Poland, Jennifer Juzwik, Allen Rowley, Cynthia D. Huebner, John C. Kilgo, Vanessa M. Lopez, Deanna H. Olson, Dean Pearson, Robert Progar, Robert Rabaglia, John D. Rothlisberger, Justin B. Runyon, and Sharlene E. Sing) -- Chapter 8. Restoration of Landscapes and Habitats Affected by Established Invasive Species (Jennifer Koch, Dean E. Pearson, Cynthia D. Huebner, Michael K. Young, and Richard A. Sniezko) -- Chapter 9. Sectoral Impacts of Invasive Species in the United States and Approaches to Management (Anne S. Marsh, Deborah C. Hayes, Patrice N. Klein, Nicole Zimmerman, Alison Dalsimer, Douglas A. Burkett, Cynthia D. Huebner, Robert Rabaglia, Laura A. Meyerson, Bonnie L. Harper-Lore, Jamie L. Davidson, Marla R. Emery, Travis Warziniack, Rebecca Flitcroft, Becky K. Kerns, and Vanessa M. Lopez) -- Chapter 10. Inventory and Monitoring of Invasive Species (Sonja Oswalt, Chris Oswalt, Alycia Crall, Robert Rabaglia, Michael Schwartz, and Becky K. Kerns) -- Chapter 11. Tools and Technologies for Quantifying Spread and Impacts of Invasive Species (Matt Reeves, Inés Ibáñez, Dana Blumenthal, Gang Chen, Qinfeng Guo, Catherine Jarnevich, Jennifer Koch, Frank Sapio, Michael K. Schwartz, Bruce K. Wylie, and Stephen Boyte) -- Chapter 12. Social and Cultural Dynamics of Non-Native Invasive Species (John Schelhas, Janice Alexander, Mark Brunson, Tommy Cabe, Alycia Crall, Michael J. Dockry, Marla R. Emery, Susan J. Frankel, Nina Hapner, Caleb R. Hickman, Rebecca Jordan, Michael J. LaVoie, Zhao Ma, Ross K. Meentemeyer, Joe Starinchak, and Jelena Vukomanovic) -- Chapter 13. The Role of International Cooperation in Invasive Species Research (Andrew Liebhold, Faith Campbell, Doria R. Gordon, Qinfeng Guo, Nathan Havill, Bradley Kinder, Richard MacKenzie, David R. Lance, Dean Pearson, Sharlene E. Sing, Travis Warziniack, Robert C. Venette, and Denys Yemshanov) -- Chapter 14. Economics of Invasive Species (Travis Warziniack, Robert G. Haight, Denys Yemshanov, Jenny L. Apriesnig, Thomas P. Holmes, Amanda M. Countryman, John D. Rothlisberger, and Christopher Haberland) -- Chapter 15. Legislation and Policy (Faith T. Campbell, Hilda Diaz-Soltero, and Deborah C. Hayes) -- Chapter 16. Future Invasive Species Research Challenges and Opportunities (Becky K. Kerns, Therese M. Poland, Robert C. Venette, Toral Patel-Weynand, Deborah M. Finch, Allen Rowley, Deborah C. Hayes, Mike Ielmini) -- APPENDIX 1: Regional Summaries.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Biotechnology of 21st Century -- 3. Considerations on the Scaling of biological and chemical reactors -- 4. Design of a cultivation media for the production of metabolites with practical application in the biodegradation of industrial dyes -- 5. Obtaining and characterizing new biomaterials based on starch, for use in the food and health industry -- 6. Influence of immersion time in pitahaya (Hylocereus undatus) proteolytic enzyme solutions on the texture of bovine meat -- 7. Determination of free amino acids in fermented and toasted cocoa (Theobroma cacao) samples, using high performance liquid chromatography with UV detection by diode arrangement -- 8. Characterization of cassava and bee wax residues for their use in the obtaining of bioplastic -- 9. Development of a thermoplastic material from the residues of the banana (Musa paradisiaca) -- 10. Chemical ecology and its role in the conservation of threatened species: a case study in the Galapagos islands -- 11. Energy evaluation of solid biofuels made from mixtures of lignocellulosic biomass -- 12. Reforestation and conservation of vegetable germ plasm: challenges and expectations -- 13. Characterization of Moniliophthora roreri evans and evaluation of biological control alternatives in cacao (Theobroma cacao), for the Ecuadorian amazon -- 14. Application of biotechnology to the search and selection of PGPR in the control of phytosanitary problems in cocoa (Theobroma cacao) and banana (Musa acuminata) -- 15. Sustainability of organic quinoa cultivation (Chenopodium quinoa) in communities of colta Ecuador -- 16. Effects of artificial light intensity and temperature on the growth of lettuce (Lactuca sativa l.) in a vertical urban farm in low cost indoor -- 17. Efficiency of led lights in the propagation and field of summer flowers in Ecuador -- 18. Evaluation of extraction methods to obtain a natural flocculant from the tamarind seed (Tamarindus indica) -- 19. Bicomponent adsorption of Brilliant blue FCF and tartrazine under dynamic conditions using rice husk -- 20. Kinetic approach to the biocoagulation process of mixtures of Moringa oleífera and Caesalpinia spinosa in synthetic turby water -- 21. Sustainable alternatives in the treatment of liquid industrial waste -- 22. Biodegradation of industrial dyes with enzymatic extracts obtained in FES and FEL systems with Pleurotus djamor -- 23. Removal of petroleum hydrocarbons from medium and soil (lab & field conditions) by microorganisms isolated from the Ecuadorian amazon rainforest -- 24. Chemistry of natural products -- 25. Evaluation of the antimicrobial activity of natural extracts of altamisa (Ambrosia artemisiifolia) and melissa (Melissa officinallis) for the control of pathogenic agents -- 26. Phenolic compounds of cocoa (Theobroma cacao) shell extraction and antimicrobial activity -- 27. Susceptibility to antimicrobials in strains of environmental origin, a public health problem -- 28. Inhibition effect of oregano (Origanum vulgare) essential oil on an active biodegradable film -- 29. Current Challenges and Future Prospective of Biotechnology.

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Description / Table of Contents: Male infertility: a complete guide to lifestyle and environmental factors -- Use of folic acid in the treatment of oxidative-stress associated male infertility: a myth or reality? -- Methylglyoxal induced mitochondrial perturbation and neuronal toxicity in Alzheimer disease -- Free radicals-mediated oxidative damage in memory loss: Are antioxidant therapies useful? -- ROS-induced neural toxicity in Parkinson's Disease -- Cyclin-dependent Kinase in oxidative stress and development of cancer -- Radiation induced free radical formation lead to head and neck cancer -- Pathophysiology of radiations: Radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation oxidative stress and carcinogenesis -- Heavy metal contamination induced oxidative tress lead to neurodegenerative diseases -- Networking of nanoparticles toxicity in environment and possible role of ROS in disease mechanism -- Free radicals and microbes in nature -- Relevance of ROS and NOS in Leishmaniasis: A recent update -- Alcohol-induced neuronal toxicity in Alzheimer disease.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Urban Services to Ecosystems: An introduction (Riccardo Guarino, Maria Beatrice Andreucci, Manfredi Leone, Francesca Bretzel, Salvatore Pasta & Chiara Catalano) -- Part I: Green Infrastructure, Urban Ecology and Vegetation Science -- Chapter 2. Improving extensive green roofs for endangered ground-nesting birds (Nathalie Baumann, Chiara Catalano & Salvatore Pasta) -- Chapter 3. A plant sociological procedure for the ecological design and enhancement of urban green infrastructure (Chiara Catalano, Salvatore Pasta & Riccardo Guarino) -- Chapter 4. Functional and phylogenetic characteristics of vegetation: effects on constructed green infrastructure (Amy Heim, Garland Xie & Jeremy Lundholm) -- Chapter 5. Green Infrastructure within urban and rural landscapes following Landscape Bionomics (Vittorio Ingegnoli) -- Chapter 6. Roof greening with native plant species of dry sandy grasslands in northwestern Germany (Kathrin Kiehl, Daniel Jeschke & Roland Schröder) -- Chapter 7. Nature-Based Solutions as Tools for Monitoring the Abiotic and Biotic Factors in Urban Ecosystems (Federica Larcher, Chiara Baldacchini, Chiara Ferracini, Monica Vercelli, Martina Ristorini, Luca Battisti & Carlo Calfapietra) -- Chapter 8. Anthosart Green Tool: selecting species for green infrastructure design (Patrizia Menegoni, Riccardo Guarino, Sandro Pignatti, Claudia Trotta, Francesca Lecce, Federica Colucci, Maria Sighicelli & Loris Pietrelli) -- Chapter 9. Stewardship innovation: the forgotten component in maximising the value of urban nature-based solutions (Caroline Nash, Heather Rumble & Stuart Connop) -- Chapter 10. Nature as model: Evaluating the mature vegetation of early extensive green roofs (Christine Thuring & Nigel Dunnett) -- Chapter 11. Less is more: soil and substrate quality as an opportunity for urban greening and biodiversity conservation (Francesca Vannucchi, Francesca Bretzel, Roberto Pini & Heather Rumble) -- Part II: Planning and Implementation of Green Infra-structure -- Chapter 12. Public Nature: The Contribution of Urban Agriculture to New Green Infrastructure in Japan (Noriko Akita) -- Chapter 13. Anticipating an Urban Green Infrastructure Design for the Turkish Mediterranean City of Antalya (Meryem Atik, Veli Ortaçesme & Emrah Yildirim) -- Chapter 14. Multifunctional ecological networks as framework for landscape and spatial planning in Italy (Serena D’ambrogi & Matteo Guccione) -- Chapter 15. The foodscape as ecological system. Landscape resources for r-urban bmetabolism, social empowerment and cultural production (Sara Favargiotti & Angelica Pianegonda) -- Chapter 16. Policies and planning of urban Green Infrastructure and sustainable urban drainage systems (Daniele La Rosa & Viviana Pappalardo) -- Chapter 17. Soil and Water Bioengineering as Natural Based Solutions (Paola Sangalli, João Paulo Fernandes & Guillermo Tardío) -- Chapter 18. Guided by Water: Green Infrastructure Planning and Design Adapted To Climate Change (Camila Gomes Sant’anna, Ian Mell & Luciana Bongiovanni Martins Schenk) -- Chapter 19. Abandoned Lands on Lower Danube’s Urban Front as Opportunity to Enhance the River Corridor and the Urban Green Infrastructure (Angelica - Ionela Stan & Mihaela Hărmănescu) -- Chapter 20. The Collserola Special Protection Plan (PEPNat): a bid for coresponsibility in agricultural and forest management (Eugènia Vidal-Casanovas, Laura Cid, Antoni Farrero, Patricia García-Rodríguez & Kyriaki Ilousi) -- Part III: Nature-Based Solutions and Innovative Design Approaches -- Chapter 21. Exploring Regenerative Co-benefits of Biophilic Design for People and the Environment (Maria Beatrice Andreucci, Angela Loder, Beth Mcgee, Jelena Brajković & Martin Brown) -- Chapter 22. Design the Urban Microclimate: Nature-based Solutions and Technology at Nexus (Silvia Coccolo, Marco Delli Paoli, Alessandro Stracqualursi & Maria Beatrice Andreucci) -- Chapter 23. Evolution of the Approaches to Planting Design of Parks and Gardens as Main Greenspaces of Green Infrastructure (Maria Ignatieva) -- Chapter 24. Environment in megacities: Tehran Waterscapes (Manfredi Leone, Ayda Alehashemi & Giuditta Lo Tauro) -- Chapter 25. Cities facing the Wild (Annalisa Metta & Maria Livia Olivetti) -- Chapter 26. Biodiverse Cities: Exploring multifunctional green infrastructure for ecosystem services and human well-being (Alessio Russo & Katie A. Holzer) -- Chapter 27. In Consideration of the Tree: The importance of structure and function in the realization of Ecological Design (Naomi Zürcher) -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Ancient Spores -- Spores of My Life -- Scary Spores -- Spores of the Future -- Conclusions.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface and Introduction -- Part I Risks and Impacts Enhancing the Vulnerability of Social-Ecological Systems -- Part II Environmental and Climate Change Impacts on Social-Ecological Systems – Conflict, Inequality and Human Security -- Part III Human Mobility and Social-Ecological Systems -- Part IV Enhancing the Sustainability and Resilience of Social-Ecological Systems – Some Recommended Paths -- Conclusions.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I: Nitrogen physiology and ecology -- Chapter 1: Physiology and distribution of Nitrogen in soils -- Chapter 2: Ecophysiology of nitrogen in symbiotic relationships of plants and microorganisms -- Chapter 3: Ecological perspectives on soil microbial community involved in N-cycling -- Chapter 4: Pedological assessment of soil organic carbon and total nitrogen contents in wetland rice ecosystems of Majuli river island, Assam, India -- Part II: Nitrogen cycle and pathway -- Chapter 5: Functional Nitrogen in Rhizosphere -- Chapter 6: Potential contribution of soil microflora and fauna in Nitrogen cycle: A comprehensive study -- Chapter 7: Unraveling microbial nitrogen pathway in rhizosphere -- Chapter 8: Role of root exudates on different processes of nitrogen cycle in rhizosphere -- Part III: Techniques and applications -- Chapter 9: Techniques for improving nitrogen use efficiency in rice -- Chapter 10: Tools for characterization of nitrogen fixing microbes -- Chapter 11: Biopriming is emerging as a supplemental strategy for improving nitrogen use efficiency of crop species -- Chapter 12: Overview of the role of nitrogen in copper pollution and bioremediation mediated by plant-microbe interactions -- Part IV: Metagenomics -- Chapter 13: Metagenomics for improving soil fertility -- Chapter 14: Soil microbial diversity and metagenomics -- Part V: Bacteria in nitrogen fixation -- Chapter 15: Beneficial effects of Nitrogen fixing bacteria for agriculture of the future -- Chapter 16: Functional Diversity of Nitrogen-Fixing Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria-The Story so Far -- Chapter 17: Bacterial mutants for enhanced nitrogen fixation -- Chapter 18: Perspectives of nitrogen fixing Bacillus spp -- Chapter 19: Quorum Sensing Enhances Nitrogen Uptake In Plants -- Part VI: Fungi in nitrogen fixation -- Chapter 20: Fungi and nitrogen cycle: symbiotic relationship, mechanism and significance -- Chapter 21: Arbuscular Mycorrhizae in Sustainable Plant Nitrogen Nutrition: Mechanisms and Impact -- Chapter 22: Nitrogen fixing fungi for development of biofertilizer and future strategies -- Chapter 23: Iron toxicity and its relation to nitrogen and phosphorus availability in ectomycorrhizal fungi -- Part VII: Algae in nitrogen fixation -- Chapter 24: Role of Algae in soil nitrogen fixation -- Chapter 25: Role of cyanobacteria in rhizospheric nitrogen fixation -- Chapter 26: Molecular aspects and oxygen relations of nitrogen fixation in cyanobacteria.

Description / Table of Contents: What is a Forest? -- Classification of Plant Communities -- Popular Myths -- Forest Anthromes: Domesticated Ecosystems -- Forest Assessment and Observation -- Forest Assessment -- Field Experiments -- Continuous Forest Observation -- Analysing Forest Ecosystems -- Forest Density -- Forest Heterogeneity and Structure -- Assessing Community Dissimilarity -- Analysing Harvest Events -- Reconstruction and Simulation -- The Shape and Growth of Forest Trees -- The Shape of Forest Trees -- Individual Tree Growth Models -- Selecting Trees for Harvest -- Forest Production -- Site Models -- Estimating Forest Production -- Compatible Models of Growth and Production -- Modeling Harvest Events -- Designing Forest Ecosystems -- Risks and Preferences -- Sustaining Planted Forests -- Sustaining Continuous Cover Forests -- Sustaining Green Landscapes -- Literature -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I: Processes, Methods And Tools For Regenerative Design -- Foreword: Regenerative Design In Practice: Digital Design Tools To Enhance The Well-Being Of The Inhabitants Of The Natural And Built Environment (Emanuele Naboni And Lisanne Havinga) -- Chapter 1. Axiomatic Design In Regenerative Urban Climate Adaptation (Clarice Bleil De Souza And Ilya Vladimirovich Dunichkin) -- Chapter 2. Restorative Design Tools For The Existing City: H-Bim Potentials (Carlo Bianchini, Martina Attenni And Giorgia Potestà) -- Chapter 3. The Application Of Urban Building Energy Modeling In Urban Planning (Shimeng Hao And Tianzhen Hong) -- Chapter 4. Adaptation To Climate Change As A Key Dimension Of Urban Regeneration In Europe: The Cases Of Copenhagen, Vienna And Madrid (Sonia De Gregorio Hurtado) -- Chapter 5. Water Runoff And Catchment Improvement By Nature Based Solution (Nbs) Promotion In Private Household Gardens: An Agent-Based Model (Rembrandt Koppelaar, Antonino Marvuglia And Benedetto Rugani) -- Chapter 6. Carbon Accounting For Regenerative Cities (Jukka Heinonen And Juudit Ottelin) -- Chapter 7. How Rating Systems Support Regenerative Change In The Built Environment (Melinda Orova And András Reith) -- Part Ii: Innovative Approaches In Professional Design Practice -- Foreword: Bridging The Gap Between Design And Construction Following A Life Cycle Approach Consisting Of Practical Approaches For Procurement, Construction, Use & Operation And Future Life (Giulia Peretti And Carsten Druhmann) -- Chapter 8. Covering The Gap For An Effective Energy And Environmental Design Of Green Roofs: Contributions From Experimental And Modelling Researches (Laura Cirrincione And Giorgia Peri) -- Chapter 9. Gender Matters! Thermal Comfort And Individual Perception Of Indoor Environmental Quality: A Literature Review (Edeltraud Haselsteiner) -- Chapter 10. Climatic, Cultural, Behavioural And Technical Influences On The Indoor Environment Quality And Their Relevance For A Regenerative Future (Edeltraud Haselsteiner, Marielle Ferreira Silva And Željka Kordej-De Villa) -- Chapter 11. Textile As Material In Human Built Environment Interaction (Preben Hansen, Vesna Gryjoska And Milica Jovanoska) -- Chapter 12. Restorative Design For Heritage Requalification: Selected Roman Works (Luciano Cupelloni) -- Chapter 13. 3d Printing Technology Within A Regenerative Construction Framework (Odysseas Kontovourkis) -- Chapter 14. From Resilient And Regenerative Materials To A Resilient And Regenerative Built Environment (Ferhat Bejtullahu And Naomi Morishita-Steffen) -- Part Iii: Rethinking Technology Towards A Regenerative Economy -- Foreword: Rethinking Technology: Low Impact Technology For Regenerative Indoor Environment (Wilmer Pasut And Roberto Lollini) -- Chapter 15. The Blue Growth Smart Specialisation Challenges Towards The Restorative Economy (Milen Baltov) -- Chapter 16. From Restorative Building To Regenerative Economy: A Model-Theoretical Analysis On Biobased Plastics For The Construction Industry (Daniel Friedrich) -- Chapter 17. Тhe Use Of Waste Sludge: Benefits To The Regenerative Economy In Bulgaria (Angel Sarov) -- Chapter 18. Circular Economy In Construction From Waste To Green Recycled Products In Israel: A Case Study (Zvi Weinstein) -- Chapter 19. Cultural Heritage, Tourism And The Un Sustainable Development Goals: The Case Of Croatia (Željka Kordej-De Villa And Ivan Šulc) -- Chapter 20. The Green Building Approach: Recent Initiatives In The Evolving Italian Scenario (Fabrizio Tucci) -- Chapter 21. Strategies To Promote Deep Renovation In Existing Buildings (Cristina Jiménez-Pulido, Ana Jiménez-Rivero And Justo García-Navarro) -- Chapter 22. Investigating, Implementing And Funding Regenerative Urban Design In A Post-Covid-19 Pandemic Built Environment: A Reading Through The Un Sustainable Development Goals And The Green New Deal (Maria Beatrice Andreucci And Antonino Marvuglia).

Description / Table of Contents: Part I: The Tools for Engineering Plants -- 1. The Evolution of Agriculture and Tools for Plant Innovations. Genome editing methods and applications -- 2. Techniques and Tools of Modern Plant Breeding -- 3. Genomic Methods for Improving Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crops -- 4. New technologies for precision plant breeding -- 5. CRISPR Technologies for Plant Biotechnology Innovation -- Part II: Contributions to the Society -- 6. Intellectual Property Protection of Plant Innovation -- 7. Environmental Impacts of Genetically Modified (GM) Crop Use: Impacts on Pesticide Use and Carbon Emissions -- 8. Is It Possible to Overcome the GMO Controversy? Some Elements for a Philosophical Perspective -- Part III: Sustainable Management -- 9. Sustainable Management of Insect-Resistant Crops -- 10. Effects of GM Crops on Non-Target Organisms -- 11. Virus-Resistant Crops and Trees -- Part IV. Sustainable Environment -- 12. Root Traits for Improving Nitrogen Acquisition Efficiency -- 13. Sustainable Soil Health -- 14. Environmental Phytoremediation and Analytical Technologies for Heavy Metal Removal and Assessment -- Part V: Contributions to Food, Feed, and Health -- 15. Production of Medicines from Engineered Proteins in Plants -- 16. Low gluten and coeliac-safe wheat through gene editing -- 17. Near-isogenic lines as powerful tools to evaluate the effect of individual phytochemicals on health and chronic diseases -- Part VI: Contributions of Genome editing to Agriculture -- 18. Policies and Governance for plant genome editing -- 19. Exploring the roots of the old GMO narrative and why young people have started to ask critical questions. .

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Presentation and Work Guide -- Chapter 2. General identification keys -- Chapter 3. Atlas of the most common xylophagous insects.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Forest Scenario of West Bengal -- Chapter 2. Forest Covers of West Bengal - District-wise Review -- Chapter 3. Characteristics of forest soils -- Chapter 4. Forest Stands -- Chapter 5. Application of Statistical Methods in Forest studies -- Chapter 6. Strategies for Forest Restoration – Fact Finding Surveys -- Chapter 7. Impact of Climate Change -- Chapter 8. Deforestation and Zoonosis.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 Nanocellulose-based Materials for Heavy Metal Removal from Wastewater -- Chapter 2 Visible-Light-Responsive Heterostructured Nanophotocatalysts for Organic Pollutants Decomposition -- Chapter 3 Conductive Polymer Nanobiosensors -- Chapter 4 Fabrication and Potential Applications of Nanoporous Membranes for Separation Processes -- Chapter 5 Nanomaterials for effective control of algal blooms in water -- Chapter 6 Nanotechnological Developments in Nanofiber-Based Membranes Used for Water Treatment Applications -- Chapter 7 Fe-based nanomaterials for removing the environmental endocrine disrupting chemicals in water: a review -- Chapter 8 Plasmonics, Vibrational Nanospectroscopy and Polymers -- Chapter 9 Phyto-Nanosensors: Advancement of Phytochemicals as an Electrochemical Platform for various Biomedical Applications -- Chapter 10 Nano-adsorbents in wastewater treatment for phosphate and nitrate removal.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Definition of sustainable city and public spaces -- Landscape study and methodology -- Botanic for landscapists -- Peruvian gardens -- Park typology and legislation -- Environmental problems -- Urban ecology -- Ecological Restoration.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. The Role of Research for Vegetable Production Under a Changing Climate: Future Trends and Goals -- Chapter 2. Challenges and opportunities in vegetable production in changing climate: mitigation and adaptation strategies -- Chapter 3. Selection of genotypes in vegetable crops for climate change adaptation -- Chapter 4. Response of Solanaceous vegetables to increasing temperature and atmospheric CO2 -- Chapter 5. Climate change impact on cole crops and mitigation strategies -- Chapter 6. Impact of climate change on root crops production and mitigation strategies -- Chapter 7. Impact of climate change on leguminous vegetables productivity and mitigation strategies -- Chapter 8. Impact of climate change on bulb crops production and mitigation strategies -- Chapter 9. Impact of climate change on cucurbitaceous vegetables in relation to increasing temperature and drought -- Chapter 10. Impact of carbon sequestration and greenhouse gasses on soils -- Chapter 11. Impact of green house gasses on vegetable crops and atmosphere -- Chapter 12. Impact of heat on vegetable crops and mitigation strategies -- Chapter 13. Impact of drought and salinity on vegetable crops and mitigation strategies.

Description / Table of Contents: Part 1. Introduction -- 1. Leaf Carbon Flux Responses to Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities (Danielle A. Way, Katie M. Becklin and Joy K. Ward) -- Part 2. Leaf-level Responses to Climate Change -- 2. Stomatal Responses to Climate Change (Jim Stevens, Michele Faralli, Shellie Wall, John D. Stamford and Tracy Lawson) -- 3. Mesophyll Conductance to CO2 Diffusion in a Climate Change Scenario: Effects of Elevated CO2 , Temperature, and Water Stress (Miquel Nadal, Marc Carriquí, and Jaume Flexas) -- 4. Photosynthetic Acclimation to Temperature and CO2: The Role of Leaf Nitrogen (André G. Duarte, Mirindi E. Dusenge, Sarah McDonald, Kristyn Bennett, Karen Lemon, Julianne Radford and Danielle A. Way) -- 5. Trichome Responses to Elevated Atmospheric CO2 of the Future (James M. Fischer and Joy K. Ward) -- Part 3. Population- and Community-Level Responses of Photosynthesis and Respiration to Climate Change -- 6. Intraspecific Variation in Plant Responses to Atmospheric CO2, Temperature, and Water Availability (Michael J. Aspinwall, Thomas E. Juenger, Paul D. Rymer, and Dave T. Tissue) -- 7. Tree Physiology and Intraspecific Responses to Extreme Events: Insights from the Most Extreme Heat Year in U.S. History (Jacob M. Carter, Timothy E. Burnette, and Joy K. Ward) -- Part 4. Responses of Plants with Carbon-Concentrating Mechanisms to Climate Change -- 8. Terrestrial CO2 Concentrating Mechanisms in a High CO2 World (Rowan F. Sage and Matt Stata) -- 9. The Outlook for C4 Crops in Future Climate Scenarios (Alex Watson-Laxowski and Oula Ghannoum) -- 10. Climate Change Responses and Adaptations in Crassulacean Acid Metabolism (CAM) Plants (Paula N. Pereira, Nick A. Niechayev, Brittany B. Blair, and John C. Cushman) -- Part 5. Engineering Photosynthesis for Climate Change -- 11. Engineering Photosynthetic CO2 Assimilation to Develop new Crop Varieties to Cope with Future Climate (Robert E. Sharwood and Benedict M. Long) -- 12. With a Little Help from my Friends: The Central Role of Photorespiration and Related Metabolic Processes in the Acclimation and Adaptation of Plants to Oxygen and Low-CO2 Stress (Hermann Bauwe and Alisdair R. Fernie).

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Concerns and Threats of Heavy Metals Contamination on Aquatic Ecosystem -- Pollution in Aquatic Environs: Sources and consequences -- A Recent Scenario of Groundwater Quality in Northwest Himalaya, India -- Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: Toxic Effects and their Bioremediation Strategies -- Mechanisms and importance of phytoremediation -- Role of Soil Biota and Associated Threats -- Viability of in-situ and ex-situ bioremediation approaches for degradation of noxious substances in stressed environs -- Bioremediation: A viable approach for degradation of petroleum hydrocarbon -- Application of macrophytes for remediation of wastewater in constructed wetlands -- Application of Biotechnology for restoration of degraded environs -- Role of Free Floating Aquatic Macrophytes in abatement of the disturbed Environs -- Genetically Modified Microbes as Biofertilizers -- Nanotechnology: A Modern Waste management approach -- Restoration of Heavy Metal Contaminated Environs through Ectomycorrhizal Symbiosis -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction: Ecological Subsidies as a Framework for Understanding Contaminant Fate, Exposure, and Effects at the Land-Water Interface -- Part I: Ecological Subsidies Drive Exposure -- Chapter 2: Ecological Factors Controlling Insect-Mediated Methylmercury Flux from Aquatic to Terrestrial Ecosystems: Lessons Learned from Mesocosm and Pond Experiments -- Chapter 3: Pathways of Contaminant Transport Across the Aquatic-Terrestrial Interface: Implications for Terrestrial Consumers, Ecosystems and Management -- Part II: Exposure Drives Ecological Subsidies -- Chapter 4: Agriculture and Mining Contamination Contribute to a Productivity Gradient Driving Cross-Ecosystem Associations between Stream Insects and Riparian Arachnids -- Chapter 5: Cross-Ecosystem Linkages and Trace Metals at the Land-Water Interface -- Chapter 6: Metamorphosis and the Impact of Contaminants on Ecological Subsidies -- Part III: Other Global Stressors -- Chapter 7: Variables Affecting Resource Subsidies from Streams and Rivers to Land and their Susceptibility to Global Change Stressors -- Chapter 8: Beyond “Donors and Recipients”: Impacts of Species Gains and Losses Reverberate among Ecosystems due to Changes in Resource Subsidies -- Part IV: Management Applications and Tools -- Chapter 9: Practical Considerations for the Incorporation of Insect-Mediated Contaminant Flux into Ecological Risk Assessments -- Chapter 10: When Nutrients Become Contaminants in Aquatic Systems: Identifying Responses to Guide Terrestrial-Derived Detrital Endpoint Development for Managers -- Chapter 11: Mesocosms to Evaluate Aquatic-Terrestrial Contaminant Linkages using Aquatic Insect Emergence: Utility for Aquatic Life Criteria Development -- Chapter 12: Studying Effects of Contaminants on Aquatic-Terrestrial Subsidies: Experimental Designs using Outdoor and Indoor Mesocosms and Microcosms -- Part V: Syntheses -- Chapter 13: Ecological Networks as a Framework for Understanding and Predicting Contaminant Movement across the Land-Water Interface -- Chapter: 14: Synthesis: A Framework for Predicting the Dark Side of Ecological Subsidies.

Description / Table of Contents: Climate-smart potato: An integrated breeding, genomics and phenomics approach -- Genomic designing for climate-smart tomato -- The importance of genetic and epigenetic research in the Brassica vegetables in the face of climate change -- Eggplant breeding and improvement for future climates.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. From Weed Control To Ethics -- 3. Agriculture- A Brief History -- 4. World Population - Three Views -- 5. Agricultures Moral Dilemmas -- 6. Ethics in Agriculture and Other Disciplines -- 7. Seeking Common Ground -- 8. Ethical Puzzles.

Description / Table of Contents: CHAPTER I: Introduction -- CHAPTER II: Socioecological profile of the Rain-fed Regions -- CHAPTER III: Implementation Process: Quality, equity and Sustenance -- CHAPTER IV: Moving Towards Sustainable -- CHAPTER V: Making of Climate Smart Communities: Experiences and Learnings -- CHAPTER VI: Conclusions and Policy Imperatives -- References -- Appendices.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Arctic Tundra: Where There Are No Trees -- Chapter 2. Arctic Is Not One -- Chapter 3. Arctic Plants in Different Tundras -- Chapter 4. Arctic Plants in Svalbard- Who are they and what do they do?/Svalbard, cold shore -- Chapter 5. The Past Shows the Future.

Description / Table of Contents: Genomic Designing for New Climate-Resilient Almond Varieties -- Challenges and Strategies for Developing Climate-Smart Apple Varieties through Genomic Approaches -- Genomic Designing for New Climate-Resilient Apricot Varieties in a Warming Context -- Breeding Climate Resilient Bananas.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I: Introductory Communications -- Chapter 1. Our Future and The Oceans -- Chapter 2. General guidelines for future exchanges in marine science and technology between the two Sociétés franco-japonaises d’Océanographie -- Part II: Identification and Analysis of Environmental Stressors -- Chapter 3. The Japan Sea: a changing Pacific Asian marginal sea -- Chapter 4. Statistical analysis of surface circulation in Sagami Bay using High Frequency（HF）Radar -- Chapter 5. Statistical analysis of high frequency pCO2 data acquired with the Astan buoy (Southern Western English Channel, off Roscoff) -- Chapter 6. Spatial variation in pCO2 based on 16 years of in-situ measurements in the Seto Inland Sea, Japan -- Chapter 7. The Bay of Seine: a resilient socio-eco-system under cumulative pressures -- Chapter 8. Effect of bacterial infection on the expression of stress proteins and antioxidative enzymes in Japanese flounder -- Part III: Impacts on Socio-Eco-Systems and Biological Resources -- Chapter 9. A Review of the Effects of Global Warming and Currents Trends on Fisheries and its Impact on Important Commercial Species in Japan -- Chapter 10. Physiology of winter coral bleaching in temperate zone -- Chapter 11. Preliminary report of impacts of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami and subsequent events on macrobenthic community in a shallow brackish lagoon in Sendai Bay, Japan -- Chapter 12. Post-tsunami oyster feeding environment in Nagatsuraura Bay for three years -- Chapter 13. Seagrass-oyster farmers interaction detected by eelgrass DNA analysis in Hinase area of the Seto Inland Sea, Japan -- Chapter 14. Fisheries Biology of Blue Sharks in Sagami Bay, Japan -- Part IV: Vulnerability of Coastal Ecosystems and Risk Assessment -- Chapter 15. Temperature and salinity changes in coastal waters of Western Europe: variability, trends and extreme events -- Chapter 16. Risk Based Consenting of Offshore Renewable Energy Projects (RICORE) -- Chapter 17. Does global warming favour the occurrence of recent blue mussel mortality events in France? -- Chapter 18. Integrated ecosystem management for exploited coastal ecosystem dynamics under oligotrophication and climate changes -- Chapter 19. Forty years of decline and 10 years of management plan: are European eels (Anguilla anguilla) recovering? -- Chapter 20. The management of Mediterranean coastal habitats: a plea for a socio-ecosystem-based approach.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter1.Introduction: What Persists, what Changes -- Chapter2.The mountains -- Chapter3.It's getting warm down here -- Chapter4.Water towers of the west -- Chapter5.Trees, forests, and carbon -- Chapter6.Ecological disturbance -- Chapter7.Creatures great and small -- Chapter8.Extremes, Thresholds, Vulnerabilities -- Chapter9.Mountains and People in a Warming World.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. The Exhibition MARE PLASTICUM: Art and Science for the Environment -- Chapter 2. A Brief History of Plastics -- Chapter 3. Plastics and Microplastics: Impacts in the Marine Environment -- Chapter 4. The (Un)Natural History of the “Plastisphere”, A New Marine Ecosystem -- Chapter 5. Polarquest 2018 Expedition: Plastic Debris at 82°07’ North -- Chapter 6. The Impact of Marine Litter in Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in the Mediterranean Sea: How Can We Protect MPAs? -- Chapter 7. Plastic in China: A Short History of a Crisis -- Chapter 8. "Down by the River": (Micro-) Plastic Pollution of Running Freshwaters with Special Emphasis on the Austrian Danube -- Chapter 9. Small Plastic Wastes in Soils: What Is Our Real Perception of the Problem? -- Chapter 10. Europe's Move Towards Plastic-Free Ocean -- Chapter 11. Plastic Pollution in the Oceans - A Systemic Analysis—Status Quo and Possible Sustainable Solutions -- Chapter 12. Toys for the Winter -- Chapter 13. "The Bottlenose Dolphin” (An Eco-comic).

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Chapter 1 Hemp Production -- Chapter 2 Traditional and New Applications of Hemp -- Chapter 3 Industrial Hemp in the USA: A Brief Synopsis -- Chapter 4 Hemp Fibers in Serbia: Cultivation, Processing, and Applications -- Chapter 5 Physico-chemical Characterization and Development of Hemp Aggregates for Highly Insulating Construction Building Materials -- Chapter 6 Modelling of the Hygrothermal Behaviour of Hemp Concrete -- Chapter 7 Hempseed Protein: Processing and Functional Properties -- Chapter 8 Functional and Bioactive Properties of Hemp Proteins -- Chapter 9 Hemp Seed as a Source of Food Proteins -- Chapter 10 Hemp Fibers for Wastewater Treatment.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Chapter 1 – Antimicrobial resistance paradigm and One-health approach -- Chapter 2 – Global surveillance programs on antimicrobial resistance -- Chapter 3 – Antimicrobial resistance, food systems and climate change -- Chapter 4 – In silico approaches for prioritizing drug targets in pathogens -- Chapter 5 – Molecular and systems biology approaches for analyzing drug-tolerant bacterial persister cells -- Chapter 6 – Role of gene editing tool CRISPR-Cas in the management of antimicrobial resistance -- Chapter 7 – Control of bacterial biofilms for mitigating antimicrobial resistance -- Chapter 8 - Intrusion of bacterial quorum-sensing for antimicrobial resistance mitigation: A pharmaceutical perspective -- Chapter 9 - Drug discovery for targeting drug resistant bacteria.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. What is the problem? Pesticides in our everyday life -- 2. Pesticide impacts on the environment, and humans -- 3. Where are the solutions to the pesticide problem?

Description / Table of Contents: Stress Management in Crops By Utilizing Landraces: Genetics and Plant Breeding Perspective -- Environmental Impact On Cereal Crop Grain Damage From Pre-Harvest Sprouting and Late Maturity Alpha Amylase -- Plant Nutrients For Crop Growth, Development and Stress Tolerance -- Role of Micronutrients In Biochemical Responses of Crops Under Abiotic Stresses -- Phytomonitoring and Mitigation of Air Pollution By Plants -- Drought Stress and Its Mitigation and Management Strategies In Crop Plants -- Drought Stress: An Impact of Climate Change, Its Consequences and Amelioration Through Silicon (Si) -- Ion Transporter Genes From Wild Relatives of Cereals Hold The Key For The Development of Salinity Tolerance -- Role of Heat Shock Proteins (HSPs) and Heat Stress Tolerance in Crop Plants -- Assessment of Irradiation Stress In Crop Plants With Modern Technical Advances -- Antioxidants: Responses and Importance in Plant Defense System -- Reactive Oxygen Species and Antioxidant Defence Systems In Plants: Role and Crosstalk Under Biotic Stress -- Climate Change Induced Heavy Metal (or Metalloid) Stress In Crop Plants and Possible Mitigation Strategies -- Arsenic Induced Stress and Mitigation Strategies In Plants -- Arsenic Tolerance and Signaling Mechanisms In Plants -- Heme Oxygenase 1(HO1): An Enzyme of Plant System and Its Role Against Various Abiotic Stress -- Role of Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) For Crop Stress Management -- Plant Tissue Culture and Crop Improvement -- Abiotic and Biotic Stress Research In Plants: A Gizmatic Approach of Modern Omics Technologies -- Involvement of Microbes in Different Abiotic Stress Environments of Cropping Lands -- Molecular Insight of Plant-Pathogen Interaction -- Role of miRNAs In Abiotic and Biotic Stress Management In Crop Plants -- Recent Transgenic Approaches For Stress Tolerance In Crop Plants -- Improvement of Crop's Stress Tolerance By Gene Editing CRISPR-CAS9 System -- Application of Bioinformatics For Crop Stress Response and Mitigation -- Nano-Biotechnological Applications For Crop Improvement -- Agrobiodiversity and Advances In The Development of Millets In Changing Environment.

Description / Table of Contents: Genomics-assisted breeding of climate-smart inbred and hybrid rice varieties -- Advanced genomics and breeding tools to accelerate the development of climate resilient wheat.-Increasing genetic gains in maize in stress-prone environments of the tropics -- Genomic approaches for climate resilience breeding in oats -- Genomic designing for climate smart sorghum -- Pearl millet: a resilient crop for arid and semi-arid environments -- Genomic designing for climate smart finger millet.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 Carbon Cycle in Response to Global Warming -- Chapter 2 Agricultural Land Degradation: Processes and Problems Undermining Future Food Security -- Chapter 3 Promising technologies for Cd-contaminated soils: drawbacks and possibilities -- Chapter 4 Climate Change and costal plant lives -- Chapter 5 Climate Change Forecasting and Modeling for the year of 2050 -- Chapter 6 Effects of Climate Change on Irrigation Water Quality -- Chapter 7 Prospects of biochar in alkaline soils to mitigate climate change -- Chapter 8 Biochar; a remedy for climate change -- Chapter 9 Biofortification under Climate Change: The Fight between Quality and Quantity -- Chapter 10 QTL Mapping for Abiotic Stresses in Cereals -- Chapter 11 Effectiveness of conventional crop improvement strategies vs. Omics -- Chapter 12 Development and Applications of Transplastomic Plants; A way towards Eco-friendly Agriculture -- Chapter 13 Alternative and non-conventional soil and crop management strategies for increasing water use efficiency -- Chapter 14 Role of Biotechnology in climate resilient agriculture -- Chapter 15 Insect Pests of cotton crop and management under climate change scenarios -- Chapter 16 Plant-Microbes interactions and functions in changing climate -- Chapter 17 Measuring Vulnerability to Environmental Hazards: Qualitative to Quantitative -- Chapter 18 Soil microarthropods and nutrient cycling -- Chapter 19 Environment, climate change and Biodiversity -- Chapter 20 Consequences of salinity stress on the quality of crops and its mitigation strategies for sustainable crop production: An outlook of arid and semi-arid regions -- Chapter 21 Advances in pyrolytic technologies with improved carbon capture and storage to combat climate change -- Chapter 22 The Effects of Climate Change on Human Behaviors -- Chapter 23 Role of Plant Bioactives in Sustainable Agriculture -- Chapter 24 Microbes and Environment: Global Warming Reverting the Frozen Zombies -- Chapter 25 Extent of climate change in Saudi Arabia and its impacts on agriculture: A case study from Qassim region -- Chapter 26 Rice Production under Climate Change: Adaptations and Mitigating Strategies.