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Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Forest Land Use/Cover Change -- Chapter 3. Forest Classifications and Working Circles -- Chapter 4. National Parks, Wildlife Sanctuaries, and Conservation Reserves -- Chapter 5. Forest Diversity and Distribution -- Chapter 6. Forest Stocks and Products -- Chapter 7. Environmental Index -- Chapter 8. Ecosystem Goods and Services -- Chapter 9. Drivers of Forest Degradation and Conservation Measures -- Chapter 10. Climate Change and Forests -- Chapter 11. Cultural and Socio-Economic Significance of Forests -- Chapter 12. Sustainable Forest Management -- Chapter 13. Conclusions.

Description / Table of Contents: 1.1 General Introduction Principal -- 2. Zoloogical Groups -- 2.1 Arachnids -- 2.2 Insects: Migrants, endemics, and old to new pests -- 2.3 Freshwater decapod crustaceans: the challenges of documenting and preserving a very diverse fauna -- 2.4 Mexican molluscs: In the process of a 'silent extinction' -- 2.5 Amphibians and reptiles -- 2.6 Anthropocene impacts on the Mexican freshwater fish fauna -- 2.7 Mexican avifaunas of the Anthropocene -- 2.8 Marine birds -- 2.9 Terrestrial mammals -- 2.10 Marine mammals -- 2.11Mexican bats: conservation challenges in the Anthropocene -- 3. Ecosytems -- 3.1 The impact of the growth of urban environments on Mexican fauna -- 3.2 Anchialine fauna of the Yucatan Peninsula -- 3.3 Semi-terrestrial and aquatic invertebrates and fish in mangroves in México -- 3.4 Defaunation of Mexican tropical forests3.5 Mezcal boom and extinction debts in Mexican arid ecosystems -- 3.6 Deep sea life -- 3.7 The importance of agroecosystems for the Mexican fauna -- 3.8 The salamanders of the Mexican cloud forest -- 3.9 Human effects on caves in Mexico -- 3.10 Fauna of lakes and rivers -- 3.11 Coral reef faunal assemblages in the Mexican Caribbean: assessing the cryptic biodiversity -- 4 Processes -- 4.1 Contemporary climate change impacts on Mexican fauna -- 4.2 Invasive alien species of invertebrates and fishes introduced to Mexican freshwater systems -- 4.3 Are marine fisheries sustainable? -- 4.4 Pest dynamics in Mexican forests -- 4.5 Pollination by wild and managed animal vectors -- 4.6 Social participation strategies for the conservation of Mexican fauna -- 4.7 Citizen science for deep ocean biodiversity: a crowdsourcing tool in support of conservation -- 4.8 Legal actions for the conservation of fauna.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I. Introduction -- Chapter 1. Southern Baltic Coastal Systems Analysis: Questions, Conceptions and Red Threads -- Chapter 2. Coastal Ecosystems from a Social-Ecological Perspective -- Part II. Ecological Structures and Functions of the German Baltic Sea Coast -- Chapter 3. The Abiotic Background: Climatic, Hydrological and Geological Conditions of the Southern Baltic -- Chapter 4. Geological and Sedimentary Conditions -- Chapter 5. Environmental Conditions at the Coast: The Terrestrial Ecosystems -- Chapter 6. Environmental Conditions at the Coast: Shoreline Ecosystems -- Chapter 7. Ecosystem and Landscape Functions of the Coast: Recent Research Results -- Chapter 8: Benthic Habitats and Their Inhabitants -- Part III. Ecological Structures and Functions of Coastal Water and Offshore Ecosystems -- Chapter 9. Introducing the Ecological Aspects -- Chapter 10. Baltic Sea Aquatic Ecosystems in a Gradient from Land to Open Sea -- Chapter 11. Comparison of Abiotic Parameters and Dominant Primary Producers Between the Two Main Investigation Areas -- Chapter 12. Short-Term Variability, Long-Term Trends and Seasonal Aspects in the Darß-Zingst Bodden Chain -- Chapter 13. Carbon Fluxes/Food-Webs: Effect of Macrophytes on Food Web Characteristics in Coastal Lagoons -- Chapter 14. Ecological Structure in Benthic Habitats of Offshore Waters -- Chapter 15. Patterns of Bioturbation and Associated Matter Fluxes -- Chapter 16. Seasonal Aspects and Short-Term Variability of the Pelagic Offshore Ecosystems -- Chapter 17. Long-Term Trends of the Offshore Ecosystems -- Chapter 18. Nutrient and Limitation Regimes in Coastal Water Ecosystems -- Part IV. Combining the Aspects: Ecosystem Service Assessment -- Chapter 19. The Human Factor: Coastal Social-Ecological Systems -- Chapter 20. Introduction: The Concept of Ecosystem Service Assessment Applied to Coastal Systems -- Chapter 21. The Missing Links in Ecosystem Service Research -- Chapter 22. Eudaimonic Valuation of Cultural Ecosystem Services -- Chapter 23. Economic Valuation of Cultural Ecosystem Services -- Chapter 24. Spatial Ecosystem Service Assessment Across the Land-Sea-Interface -- Chapter 25. Temporal Changes in Aquatic Ecosystem Services Provision: Approach and Examples -- Chapter 26. Assessing Temporal Changes in Ecosystem Service Provisions: Conceiving Future Pathways -- Part V. Synthesis: Assessment as a Tool for Managing Coastal Ecosystems? -- Chapter 27. Applying the Integrated Approach -- Chapter 28. Mechanisms of Ecosystem Service Production: An Outcome of Ecosystem Functions and Ecological Integrity in Coastal Lagoons -- Chapter 29. Ecosystem Service Assessment in European Coastal and Marine Policies -- Chapter 30. Ecosystem Services and Sustainable Development: The Case for Strong Sustainability -- Chapter 31. Concluding Remarks.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Nitrogen and Sulfur Metabolism in Microalgae and Plants: 50 Years of Research -- 2. Progress Toward Deep Sequencing-Based Discovery of Stress-Related MicroRNA in Plants and Available Bioinformatics Tools -- 3. Recent Advances in MS-Based Plant Proteomics: Proteomics Data Validation Through Integration with Other Classic and -Omics Approaches -- 4. Membrane Trafficking and Plant Signaling -- 5. Molecular Aspects of Iron Nutrition in Plants -- 6. Urea in Plants: Metabolic Aspects and Ecological Implications -- 7. Biosynthesis and Regulation of Secondary Cell Wall -- 8. Stress-Induced Microspore Embryogenesis in Crop Plants: Cell Totipotency Acquisition and Embryo Development -- 9. Potential of Microalgae Biomass for the Sustainable Production of Bio-commodities -- 10. Crassulacean Acid Metabolism and Its Role in Plant Acclimatization to Abiotic Stresses and Defence Against Pathogens -- 11. The Role of the Shikimate and the Phenylpropanoid Pathways in Root-Knot Nematode Infection -- 12. Functional Diversity of Photosynthesis, Plant-Species Diversity, and Habitat Diversity -- 13. When the Tree Let Us See the Forest: Systems Biology and Natural Variation Studies in Forest Species -- 14. The Ecological Importance of Winter in Temperate, Boreal, and Arctic Ecosystems in Times of Climate.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 Introduction to Environment -- Chapter 2 Components of the Earth -- Chapter 3 Earth and its Resources -- Chapter 4 Basics of Ecosystem -- Chapter 5 Major Biochemical Cycles -- Chapter 6 Biodiversity and its Conservation -- Chapter 7 Air Pollution and its Mitigation -- Chapter 8 Pollution and its Mitigation -- Chapter 9 Soil Pollution and its Mitigation -- Chapter 10 Oil Pollution -- Chapter 11 Human Population and the Environment -- Chapter 12 Climate Change: Threat of Era.

Description / Table of Contents: Section I - General considerations -- Chap 1 - Introduction Maria Eugenia Farias (LIMLA, Argentina) -- Chap 2 - Origin and evolution of the central Andes: deserts, salars lakes and volcanoes R.Alonso (U. Nacional de Salta, Argentina) and W. Rojas (Eramine Sudámerica S.A., Argentina) -- Chap 3 - Modern microbilies mats and endovaporite system in Andean lakes: a general approach Maria Eugenia Farias (LIMLA, Argentina) -- Section II - Preandean and andean atacam desert: life at limits -- Chap 4 - Desert polyextreme environment and lithobiontic habitats J. Wierzchos, C. Ascaso, O. Artieda and M.C. Casero (Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Spain) -- Chap 5 - Desert microbiology J. Di Ruggiero (Johns Hopkins University, USA) and M.C. Casero (Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Spain) -- Chap 6 - Desert biosignatures P. Vitek (The Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic) and J. Wierzchos (Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Spain) -- Chap 7 - Microbial characterization of Andean Vega's soil C. Belfiore, M.E. Farias (LIMLA, Argentina) and M. Contreras (Centro de Ecología Aplicada, Chile) -- Section III - Life in Andean Volcanoes and Fumaroles -- Chap 8 - Limits to microbial life at the altitudinal and dry extremes for life on Earth at Llullaillaco and Socompa Volcacones S. Scmidt and P. Sowell (University of Colorado, USA) -- Chap 9 - The biogeochemistry of microorganisms in the geothermal features of El Tatio Geyser Field, Chile K.D. Myers (Columbia University, USA), A.S. Angel (University of Tennessee, USA) and P.C. Bennett (The University of Texas at Austin, USA) -- Chap 10 - The unique holoarchea dominated biofilms associated Diamante Lake inside Galan Volcanoes Microbialites N. Rascova (Aix Marseille Université, France) and M.E. Farias (LIMLA, Argentina) -- Section IV - Endoevaporites and Mats in Salars and Wetlands -- Chap 11 - Endoevaporites dominated by Arquea at Laguna Tebenquiche M.C. Rasuk (LIMLA, Argentina), Pieter V. (University of Connecticut, USA), A.B. Fernández (University of Sevilla, Spain) and M.E. Farias (LIMLA, Argentina) -- Chap 12 - Rare microbial biosphere in Salar de Huasco: hyperdiversity in polyextreme aquatic ecosystem C. Dorador, N. Miranda, V. Ávalos (Universidad de Antofagasta, Chile), V. Molina (Universidad de Playa Ancha, Chile) and M. Hengst (Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile) -- Chap 13 - Microbiome of evaporites and microbial mats in the Salar de Llamara, Atacama desert M. Rasuk and M.E. Farias (LIMLA, Argentina) -- Chap 14 - Microbial diversity in athalassohaline Argentinean salterns M.R. Mora-Ruiz and R. Rosselló-Móra (Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies, Spain) -- Section V - Microbialites at lakes -- Chap 15 - Physicochemical and microbiological processes in carbonate precipitation in hypersaline lakes: the laguna Negra case F.J. Gomez (Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Terra, Argentina), L.C. Kah (University of Tennessee, USA), C. Mlewski, F.J. Boidi (Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Terra, Argentina) and E. Gerard (Université Paris Diderot, France) -- Chap 16 - Microbialites Laguna Socompa V. Albarracin and M.E. Farias (LIMLA, Argentina) -- Chap 17 - Microbialites oncolites and mats at Laguna La Brava P. Visscher (University of Connecticut, USA), M. Contreras (Centro de Ecologia Aplicada, Chile) and M.E. Farias (LIMLA, Argentina) -- Chap 18 - Modern microbiolites of Pozo Bravo lake, Salas de Antofalla, Antofagasta de la Sierra, Catamarca A.I. Lencina, M.N. Soria (PROIMI, Argentina), R. Palma (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) and M.E. Farias (LIMLA, Argentina) -- Section VI - Extremolites: microbes surviving in Andean microbial ecosystems -- Chap 19 - Light sensing and mechanisms of adaptation to high solar irradiation V.H. Albarracín, M. Gorriti, L. Portero, F. Zannier (PROIMI, Argentina), W. Gärtner (Max Planck Institute, Germany) and M.E. Farias (LIMLA, Argentina) -- Chap 20 - Linear megaplasmids spreading the Andean Resistome M.F. Perez and J.R. Dib (LIMLA, Argentina) -- Chap 21 - Arsenic: Not as bad as it sounds Visscher (University of Connecticut, USA), Gallagher, Contreras (Centro de Ecologia Aplicada, Chile), Farias (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina), Philippot (Univesité Paris Diderot, France), Sancho-Tomas and Somogyi (Synchroton Soleil, France) -- Section VII - Prospecting and protecting singular ecosystems -- Chap 22 - Conservation of extremophile communities in complex ecosystems M. Contreras (Centro de Ecologia Aplicada, Chile) -- Chap 23 - Integral prospection of Andean Microbial Ecosystem Project M.E Farias (LIMLA, Argentina) -- Index -- .

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- The marine physical environment during the Polar Night -- Light in the Polar Night -- Marine micro- and macroalgae in the Polar Night -- Zooplankton in the Polar Night -- Benthic communities in the Polar Night -- Fish ecology in the Polar Night -- Biological clocks and rhythms in polar organisms -- Sensor carrying platforms -- Operative habitat mapping and monitoring in the Polar Night -- The Polar Night exhibition: Life and light at the dead of night -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Biodiversity offsets and no net loss - introduction, problem statement and research questions -- Chapter 2. Developing a typology of biodiversity offsets using an internet and expert based approach - methods and materials -- Chapter 3. Applying the concept of voluntariness to explain behavior towards environmental conservation -- Chapter 4.Voluntariness of biodiversity offsets -- Chapter 5. Development of a typology of biodiversity offsets -- Chapter 6. Illustrative case studies for different types of biodiversity offsets -- Chapter 7. Discussion of the development of a typology of biodiversity offsets -- Chapter 8. Putting the developed typology of biodiversity offsets into context: some conclusions -- Chapter 9. Outlook: potential for further improvement and research on the developed typology of biodiversity offsets.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- The weed problem -- The lives of weeds -- Controlling weeds -- Weeds, nature conservation, and global warming -- Coldwater farm habitats -- Drawings, paintings, and photographs -- Plant names -- Desert weeds identification -- Field guide -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- References -- 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: 1.Tools Shape Paradigms of Plant-Environment Interactions -- 2.Gene Expression in Coffee -- 3. Cross-Talk Between Sporophyte and Gametophyte During Anther and Ovule Development In Angiosperms -- 4. The Photosynthetic System in Tropical Plants Under High Irradiance and Temperature Stress -- 5. Plant Peroxisomes and Their Metabolism of ROS, RNS, and RSS -- 6. Ammonium Assimilation and Metabolism in Rice -- 7. How can we Interpret the Large Number and Diversity of Abscisic Acid Transporters? -- 8. Orient in the World with a Single Eye: The Green Algal Eyespot and Phototaxis -- 9. Bidirectional Lateral Transport Barriers in Serving Plant Organs and Integral Plant Functioning: Localized Lignification, Suberinization, and Cutinization -- 10. The Haustorium of Phytopathogenic Fungi: A Short Overview of a Specialized Cell of Obligate Biotrophic Plant Parasites -- 11. Transmission of Phloem-Limited Viruses in the Host Plants by Their Aphid Vectors -- 12. Biotechnology for Biofuel Production -- 13. Modelling Urban Tree Growth and Ecosystem Services: Review and Perspectives.

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: The Coral Tree at the End of the World: Introductory Notes to Coralline Mythology and Folklore from the Indian and Pacific oceans -- The Marine Animal Forests Of South Africa: Importance For Bioregionalisation And Marine Spatial Planning -- Coral and reef fish communities in the thermally extreme Persian/Arabian Gulf: Insights into potential climate change effects -- Marginal reefs in the Anthropocene: they are not Noah’s Ark -- Animal Forests in Submarine Caves -- The Tubeworm Forests of Hydrothermal Vents and Cold Seeps -- Bryozoans: the ‘forgotten’ bioconstructors -- Polychaetes as habitat former: structure and function -- Chemical war in marine animal forests: Natural products and chemical interactions -- The nursery role of marine animal forests -- From Trees To Octocorals: The Role Of Self-Thinning And Shading In Underwater Animal Forests -- Marine animal forests as Carbon immobilizers or why we should preserve these three-dimensional alive structures -- Invasive alien species and their effects on marine animal forests -- Plastics, an additional threat for coral ecosystems -- Visual methods for monitoring mesophotic-to-deep reefs and animal forests: finding a compromise between analytical effort and result quality -- Advances in the Marine Animal Forests Scientific Outreach and Citizen Science.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I. Soil and Sediment Contaminants, Risk Assessment and Remediation -- Chapter 1. Introduction to Part I: Soil and Sediment Contaminants, Risk Assessment and Remediation -- Chapter 2. Combating Arsenic Pollution in Soil Environment via Alternate Agricultural Land Use -- Chapter 3. Temporal and Seasonal Variation in Leachate Pollution Index (LPI) in Sanitary Landfill Sites- A Case study of Baidyabati landfill, West Bengal, India -- Chapter 4.Quantification of Landfill Gas Emission and Energy Recovery Potential: A Comparative Assessment of LandGEM and MTM Model for Kolkata -- Chapter 5. Assessment of natural enrichment of heavy minerals along coastal placers of India: Role of lake and river mouth embayment and its implications -- Chapter 6. Assessment the Impact of Plastic Contaminated Fertilizers on Agricultural Soil Health: A Case Study in Memari II C.D.Block, Purba Bardhaman,West Bengal, India -- Chapter 7. Determining the Role of Leaf Relative Water Content and Soil Cation Exchange Capacity in Phytoextraction Process – Using Regression Modelling -- Chapter 8. Phytoremediation of Arsenic using Allium sativum as Model System -- Chapter 9. Spatio-temporal analysis of open waste dumping sites using Google Earth: A case study of Kharagpur City, India -- Part II. Water Contaminants, Risk Assessment and Remediation -- Chapter 10. Introduction to Part II: Water Contaminants, Risk Assessment and Remediation -- Chapter 11. Groundwater Arsenic Contamination Zone based on geospatial modeling, risk and remediation -- Chapter 12. Geospatial assessment of surface water pollution and industrial activities in Ibadan, Nigeria -- Chapter 13. Aquaculture-based water quality assessment and risk remediationalong the Rasulpur River belt, West Bengal -- Chapter 14. Heavy Metal Contamination in Groundwater and Impact on Plant and Human -- Chapter 15. Emerging Threats of Microplastic contaminant in freshwater environment -- Chapter 16. Exploring Particle Size Transport Variability of Suspended Sediments in two Alpine Catchments over the Lesser Himalayan Region, India -- Chapter 17. Salinity and corrosion potential of groundwater in Mewat district of Haryana, India -- Chapter 18. Threats to quality in the coasts of the Black Sea: heavy metal pollution of seawater, sediment, macro-algae and sea-grass -- Chapter 19. Geospatial assessment of groundwater quality for drinking through Water Quality Index and Human Health Risk Index in an upland area of Chotanagpur Plateau of West Bengal, India -- Chapter 20. Existence of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products (PPCPs) in the conventional water treatment process -- Chapter 21. Arsenic-rich surface and groundwater around eastern parts of Rupnagar district, Punjab, India -- Part III. Environmental Contaminants, Impacts and Sustainable Management -- Chapter 22. Introduction to Part III: Environmental Contaminants, Risk Assessment and Remediation -- Chapter 23. Dynamics of ultra-fine particles in indoor and outdoor environments: a modelling approach to study the evolution of particle characteristics -- Chapter 24. Environmental impacts of coal-mining and coal-fired power-plant activities in a developing country with global context -- Chapter 25. Overview of Indoor air pollution: A human health perspective -- Chapter 26. Mineralogy and Morphological characterization of Technogenic Magnetic Particles (TMP) from industrial dust: Insights into environmental implications -- Chapter 27. Pesticides: Recent Updates on Types Toxicity and Bioremediation Strategies -- Chapter 28. Commonly available plant neem (Azadirachtaindica A. Juss) ameliorates dimethoate induced toxicity in climbing perch Anabas testudineus -- Chapter 29. Estimating Particulate Matter concentrations from MODIS AOD considering meteorological parameters using Random Forest Algorithm -- Chapter 30 Bio-monitoring and bioremediation of a trans-boundary river in India: Functional roles of benthic mollusks and fungi -- Chapter 31 Assessing the Maximum Aerobic Biodegradation Potential of Leaf Litter, an Organic Fraction of Municipal Solid Waste, Under Optimum Nutrient Conditions -- Chapter 32. Rising trend of air pollution and its decadal consequences on meteorology and thermal comfort over Gangetic West Bengal, India.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction to Fire Ecology across USA Forested Ecosystems: Past, Present, and Future (Cathryn H. Greenberg, Beverly S. Collins, Scott Goodrick, Michael C. Stambaugh, and Gary R. Wein) -- Chapter 2. The Role of Fire in the Dynamics of Piedmont Vegetation (Joanna Spooner, Robert K. Peet, Michael P. Schafale, Alan S. Weakley and Thomas R. Wentworth) -- Chapter 3. Fire Ecology and Fire Management of Southeastern Coastal Plain Pine Ecosystems (Jeff S. Glitzenstein, J. Stephen Brewer, Ronald. E. Masters, J. Morgan Varner, and J. Kevin Hiers) -- Chapter 4. Fire Ecology and Management in Eastern Broadleaf and Appalachian Forests (Mary A. Arthur, J. Morgan Varner, Charles W. Lafon, Heather D. Alexander, Daniel C. Dey, Craig A. Harper, Sally P. Horn, Todd F. Hutchinson, Tara L. Keyser, Marcus A. Lashley, Christopher E. Moorman, and Callie J. Schweitzer) -- Chapter 5. Fire Ecology and Management of Forest Ecosystems in the Western Central Hardwoods and Prairie-Forest Border (Michael C. Stambaugh, Benjamin O. Knapp, and Daniel C. Dey) -- Chapter 6. Fire in Floodplain Forests of the Southeastern USA hy (Paul R. Gagnon, Loretta L. Battaglia, Brice B. Hanberry, William H. Conner, and Sammy L. King) -- Chapter 7. History and Future of Fire in Hardwood and Conifer Forests of the Great Lakes-Northeastern Forest Region, USA(Lee E. Frelich, Craig G. Lorimer, and Michael C. Stambaugh) -- Chapter 8. Fire Ecology of Rocky Mountain Forests(Sharon M. Hood, Brian J. Harvey, Paula J. Fornwalt, Cameron E. Naficy, Winslow D. Hansen, Kimberley T. Davis, Mike A. Battaglia, Camille Stevens-Rumann, Victoria Saab) -- Chapter 9. Fire Ecology of the North American Mediterranean-Climate Zone(Hugh D. Safford, Ramona J. Butz, Gabrielle N. Bohlman, Michelle Coppoletta, Becky L. Estes, Shana E. Gross, Kyle E. Merriam, Marc D. Meyer, Nicole A. Molinari, and Amarina Wuenschel) -- Chapter 10. Fire Ecology and Management in Pacific Northwest Forests(Matthew J. Reilly, Jessica E. Halofsky, Meg A. Krawchuk, Daniel C. Donato, Paul F. Hessburg, James Johnston, Andrew Merschel, Mark E. Swanson, Joshua S. Halofsky, and Thomas A. Spies) -- Chapter 11. Fire Ecology and Management of Southwestern Forests(Peter Z. Fulé, Catrin M. Edgeley, Carol L. Chambers, Serra Hoagland, Blanca Céspedes) -- Chapter 12. Fire and Forests in the 21st Century: Managing Resilience under Changing Climates and Fire Regimes in USA Forests(James M. Vose, David L. Peterson, Christopher J. Fettig, Jessica E. Halofsky, J. Kevin Hiers, Robert E. Keane, Rachel Loehman, and Michael C. Stambaugh).

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 Lake Alchichica: History of Human Settlements -- Chapter 2 Geological Evolution of the Alchichica Crater -- Chapter 3 Paleoenvironmental Change in Central Mexico During the Last 20,000 Years -- Chapter 4 Recent Climate of Serdán-Oriental Basin -- Chapter 5 Hydrogeology and Hydrochemistry of the Serdán-Oriental Basin and the Lake Alchichica -- Chapter 6 Meteorological Regime, Local Climate, and Hydrodynamics of Lake Alchichica -- Chapter 7 Physicochemical Characteristics -- Chapter 8 The Littoral Environment -- Chapter 9 Aquatic Vegetation -- Chapter 10 The Littoral Community -- Chapter 11 Bacterioplankton -- Chapter 12 -- Phytoplankton of Alchichica: A Unique Community for an Oligotrophic Lake -- Chapter 13 Protozooplankton -- Chapter 14 Metazooplankton: The Joys and Challenges of Living in a Saline, Oligotrophic, Warm Monomictic Lake -- Chapter 15 Alchichica Silverside -- Chapter 16 -- The Axolotl of Alchichica -- Chapter 17 The Deep Benthic Zone. - Chapter 18 Lake Metabolism. - Chapter 19 Lake Food Webs -- Chapter 20 Diversity and Endemisms -- Chapter 21 Conservation Actions -- Chapter 22 Microbialites: Diversity Hotspots in the Mexican Plateau -- Chapter 23 The Lake Alchichica from an Astrobiological Perspective -- Chapter 24 Lake Alchichica Traditions, Myths, and Legends: Interviews with Local Residents. .

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Chapter 1: Evolution of Bilateria from a Meiofauna Perspective – Miniaturization in the Focus -- Chapter 2: Meiofauna Shaping Biogeochemical Processes -- Chapter 3: Meiofauna and Biofilms – the Slimy Universe -- Chapter 4: Meiofauna Meets Microbes: Chemosynthetic Symbioses -- Chapter 5: Marine Meiofauna Diversity and Biogeography – Paradigms and challenges -- Chapter 6: Freshwater Meiofauna – a Biota with Different Rules? -- Chapter 7: Hidden Players – Meiofauna Mediates Ecosystem Effects of Anthropogenic Disturbances in the Ocean -- Chapter 8: Deep-Sea Meiofauna – a World of its Own or Deeply Connected? -- Chapter 9: Polar Meiofauna – Antipoles or Parallels? -- Chapter 10: Cave Meiofauna - Models for Ecology and Evolution -- Chapter 11: Meiofauna – Adapted to Life at the Limits -- Concluding Remarks -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Introducing the tree -- Chapter 2. The Urban Forest: from oxymoron to critical resource -- Chapter 3. The great tree migration: from forest to city center -- Chapter 4. Growing the Urban and Community Forest Today for the City of Tomorrow: connecting our trees and their needs to their human associates -- Chapter 5. The Global Experience in Green Participatory Place-making: a worldwide sampling of Urban and Community Forest connectivity -- Chapter 6. Making a difference – questions asked and questions answered -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: 1 Introduction -- Part I: Forest and woodland biomes -- 2 White sand ecosystems in the Amazon basin: geographic distribution, distinctive features, and ecology. An overview -- 3 The forests of the Rio Negro basin in the north-western Amazon: a phytosociological classification -- 4 Amazon caatinga complex: sclerophyllous vegetation on nutrient-poor white sand soils -- Part II: Meadow biomes -- 5 Mapping white-sand ecosystems by integrating Global PALSAR-2 and SENTINEL-1 with NDVI (LANDSAT data) -- 6 The study areas: landscapes and soils -- 7 Soil properties, formation, distribution, and classification -- 8 Origin and sources of sand: from highlands to lowlands -- 9 Sand dynamics and distribution: a geo-sedimentological approach -- 10 Features and trends of meadow landscape evolution -- 11 Meadow phytodiversity: flora, endemism, vegetation types, and geographic distribution patterns -- 12 Synthesis: white-sand and meadow-vegetation relationships.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Part I. Historical Perspectives -- Vertebrates of Upper Mesopotamia: Present Evidence and Archaeological Data -- Fishing Gears and Methods: A Comparison of Ancient Mesopotamia and Other Ancient Worlds -- Ichthyological Characteristics Available in the Fish Images Existed in the Art of the Ancient Mesopotamia -- The Effectiveness of Ancient Mesopotamian Medical Practices: The Example of šūšu-Licorice -- Part II. The Abiotic Aspects of the Tigris–Euphrates River System -- Management of Water Resources Using Storage Reservoirs -- Estimation of Irrigated Agricultural Area and Water Consumption in Iraq -- The Nature of Tigris–Euphrates Rivers Flow: Current Status and Future Prospective -- Streamflow Alteration Impacts with Particular Reference to the Lower Zab River, Tributary of the Tigris River -- Ecohydrology in Iraq: Challenges and its Future Pathways -- Oil Pollution in the Shatt Al-Arab River and its Estuary 1980–2018 -- Pesticides in the Waters, Sediments, and Biota of the Shatt Al-Arab River for the Period 1980–2017 -- Surface Water Salinity of the Euphrates, Tigris, and Shatt al-Arab Rivers -- Renewable Energy for Water–Energy Nexus in Euphrates and Tigris River Basin: A Literature Review -- Impacts of Dams on Aquatic Biodiversity, Fisheries, Fishes and Their Environment: Problems that Could Be Present in Iraq with Recommendations -- Water, Politics and Dams in the Mesopotamia Basin of the Northern Middle East: How Turkey Instrumentalises the South-Eastern Anatolia Project for Political, Military and Strategic Interests -- Dams and their Impacts on Fishes in Iran -- Part III. The Biotic Aspects of the Tigris–Euphrates River System -- Preliminary Review of the Aquatic Biodiversity in Al-Kahla River, Missan Province, Iraq -- Freshwater Fish Biodiversity in Iraq: Importance, Threats, Status, and Conservation Challenges -- Effect of Climate Changes on the Freshwater Biodiversity in the Mesopotamian Plain: Recommendations for Avoidance and Plans for the Future -- River Corridors as a Refuge for Freshwater Biodiversity: Basic Information and Recommendations to the Policymakers for Possible Implications in Iraq -- Biodiversity of Fungi in Aquatic Environment of Iraq -- Potability of Drinking Water in Basra-Iraq -- Algal Studies in Iraqi Inland Waters. A Review -- The Distribution of Epilitic Diatoms in the Turkish Part of the Tigris-Euphrates River Basin -- Plant Biodiversity in Shatt Al-Arab Estuary and Ecological Variations -- Medicinal Plants of Shatt al-Arab River and Adjacent Area -- The Role of Plants as a Canopy in the Inland Waters: Basic Information for Application in Iraq -- The Zooplankton Fauna of the Turkish Part of the Euphrates-Tigris River Basin -- Kinds and Distribution of Icthyoplankton in Shatt Al-Arab River -- Rotifer Diversity in Iranian Waters: A Review -- Biodiversity of the Freshwater Amphipods in Iran -- The Freshwater Molluscs of the Mesopotamian Plain -- Freshwater Annelida of Iraq -- A Critical Checklist of the Inland Fishes Native to the Euphrates and Tigris Drainages -- Fish Fauna of Shatt al-Arab River, Basrah, Iraq: A More than Quarter a Century of Changes -- The Common Carp, Cyprinus carpio: Effect on the Environment and the Indigenous Fish Species in Iraq -- The Good and the Bad in Releasing the Grass Carp Ctenopharyngodon idella in the Freshwater System: Recommendations for the Policymakers in Iraq -- The Avifauna of Tigris and Euphrates River Basin -- The Feasible Approaches to Assist Migratory Birds Visiting the Southern Reaches of Mesopotamia -- A Proposal for Establishing Bird Observatory Centre in the South of Iraq -- The Potential Role of Waterbirds as a Vector in Dispersing Invertebrates and Plants in the South of Iraq -- The Wild Mammals of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers Basin -- The Amphibians and Reptiles of Euphrates and Tigris Basin -- A Preliminary Pictorial Guide to the Herpetofauna of Tigris and Euphrates River Basin -- Policy Guidance for Sustainable Aquaculture in the Inland Waters of Iraq -- How Possible to Use the Desert Area in Iraq for Aquaculture Industry: Basic Facts and Recommondations -- Aquaculture Industry in Iraq: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives -- Towards an Improved Tilapia Farming in Iraq: Recommendations for Future Application -- Information and Recommendations of Aquaculture Stress and its Source in Hatcheries: The Iraqi Aquaculture Industry Investors -- Exotic and Invasive Freshwater Fishes in the Tigris-Euphrates River System -- Part IV. Water Resources -- The Ecology and Modelling of the Freshwater Ecosystems in Iran -- Enhancing Rural Women’s Participation in Fisheries in Iraq -- The Impact of Destructive Fishing Gear on the Fish Biodiversity in the Inland Waters of Iraq -- Evaluating Variations in Fisheries by Means of Fishers’ Information: Suggested Methodology to Improve Small-Scale Fisheries in Rivers in Iraq -- A Possibility to Apply a Traditional Fisheries Enforcement Programme in the Inland Waters of Iraq -- Market-Resource Relations and Fish Seller Livelihood as Seen in Inland Waters of Iraq -- The Potential Impact of Deformities in Fishes upon Aquatic Production: Case of Iraq -- The Impact of some Social Taboos on Fisheries in Iraq -- Inland Water Fishes and Fisheries in Iran -- The Possibility of Introducing an Inland Fisheries Education in Iraq -- The Marine and Diadromous Fisheries of Iraq -- Part V. Stress of the Environment of the Two Rivers -- Fish Deformities in the Freshwater Fishes of Iraq: A Short Review and a Study Case on the Indian Catfish Heteropneustes fossilis -- The Phenomenon of Fluctuating Asymmetry: As Fish Welfare Indicator Represented by Case Study from the Freshwater Fishes of Iraq -- The Studies on Sediments Pollution by Different Types of Metals in Turkey -- Macroplastic and Microplastic in the Freshwater Environment of Southern Iraq: Evidences Obtained from Freshwater Fish Species -- Heavy Metals in Freshwater Invertebrates of Iran: A Review on the Bioaccumulation and Effects -- Fish Parasites of Tigris and Euphrates River Systems -- The Parasites of Fishes of the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers: Iraq and Turkey -- Ornamental Fishes: A Looming Danger for Inland Fish Diversity of Iraq -- Part VI. The Health of the Human Community Inhabiting Freshwater Zones -- Aquatic Snails as a Vector of Diseases to the Human in Iran -- Death by Drowning in Rivers in Iraq -- The Dangerous Catfish Species in the Freshwater System of Iraq: First Time Reports on Cases of Envenomation -- Fish Species of the Order Cypriniformes as a Source of Ichthyootoxin and Ichthyogallotoxin in Iraq: Cases Reports -- First Reports on Cases of Hallucinatory Fish Poisoning (Ichthyoallyeinotoxism) and Scombrotoxic Fish Poisoning in Iraq -- Part. VII. Conservation -- Freshwater Management and Conservation in Iran: Past, Present, and Future -- The Need of Biodiversity Conservation Strategies in Iraq: The State of Protected Areas -- Benthic Macroinvertebrates of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in Turkey -- Freshwater Ecosystem Conservation in Iraq: Recommendations for Management -- Utilising Phenotypic Difference to Regulate Protection Value: A Scheme for Application of a Novel Approach to the Inland Water of Iraq -- Hatchery-Reared Fish Stocks Released into the Wild: A Conservation Problem as Seen in a Case Study from Iraq -- Part VIII. Social Perspectives -- Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full? An Appraisal of the Four Decades of Turkey’s Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP) -- Part IX. Food Security -- How Possible to Build Rice–Fish Farming in Iraq in order to Support Food Security Plan: Positive and the Negative Aspects -- The Importance of Non-commercial and Small-Sized Fish Species: A Proposal for an Additional Revenue to Iraq -- Sociocultural Aspects Influence Food Consumption Habits in Iraq: Management of Food Security -- A Preliminary Investigation of Determinants of Food Security in Rural Areas of Basrah Province, Iraq.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Science for the Future: The Use of Citizen Science in Marine Research and Conservation -- 2. A Literature Review on Stakeholder Participation in Coastal and Marine Fisheries -- 3. Law and Policy Dimensions of Ocean Governance -- 4. Status and Threats to Marine Biodiversity in the Anthropocene -- 5. Challenges in Marine Restoration Ecology: How Techniques, Assessment Metrics and Ecosystem Valuation can lead to Improved Restoration Success -- 6. Understanding how Microplastics Affect Marine Biota on the Cellular Level is Important for Assessing Ecosystem Function – A Review -- 7. Chemical Biodiversity and Bioactivities of Saponins in Echinodermata with an Emphasis on Sea Cucumbers (Holothuroidea) -- 8. Secondary Metabolites of Marine Microbes: From Natural Products Chemistry to Chemical Ecology -- 9. Sponges Revealed: A Synthesis of their Overlooked Ecological Functions within Aquatic Ecosystems -- 10. Theories, Vectors, and Computer Models – Marine Invasion Science in the Anthropocene -- 11. Benthos-Pelagos Interconnectivity: Antarctic Shelf Examples -- 12. Investigating the Land-Sea Transition Zone -- 13. Fisheries and Tourism: Social, Economic and Ecological Trade-offs in Coral Reef Systems -- 14. Progress in Microbial Ecology in Ice Covered Seas -- 15. Complex Interactions Between Aquatic Organisms and Their Chemical Environment Elucidated from Different Perspectives.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Foreword -- 1. Concerns and Threats of Contamination on Aquatic Ecosystems -- 2. Effect of Pesticides on Fish Fauna: Threats, Challenges and Possible Remedies -- 3. Impact of Invasive Plants in Aquatic Ecosystems -- 4. Role of Modern Innovative Techniques for Assessing and Monitoring Environmental Pollution -- 5. Global Scenario of Remediation Techniques to Combat Environmental Pollution -- 6. Biopesticides: clean and viable technology for healthy environment -- 7. Inoculum addition in the presence of plant rhizosphere for petroleum polluted soil remediation -- 8. Vermicomposting: An Eco-friendly Approach for Recycling /Management of Organic Wastes -- 9. Bio-Fertilizers: Ecofriendly Approach for Plant and Soil Environment -- 10. Phytoremediation of heavy metals: an ecofriendly and sustainable approach -- 11. Credibility of in situ Phytoremediation for Restoration of Disturbed Environments -- 12. Role of White Willow (Salix alba L.) for Cleaning up the Toxic Metal Pollution -- 13. Mycoremediation: a Sustainable Tool for Abating Environmental Pollution -- 14. Microbial Biofilm Cell Systems for Remediation of Wastewaters -- 15. Pollution remediation by way of using genetically modified plants (GMP) -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction. The Lake Charr: Biology, Ecology, Distribution, and Management -- Distribution -- Paleoecology -- Ecological Diversity -- Genetic Diversity -- Habitat -- Movement Ecology and Behavior -- Life History and Population Dynamics -- Trophic Ecology -- Reproduction -- Contaminants and Ecotoxicology -- A General, Life History Based Model for Sustainable Exploitation of Lake Charr across their Range -- Terminology Issues in Lake Charr Early Development.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I. Introduction -- Using the Concepts and Tools of Social Ecological Systems and Ecosystem Services to Advance the Practice of Ecosystem-Based Management -- Part II. Foundational Concepts -- Advancing Aquatic Ecosystem-Based Management with Full Consideration of the Social-Ecological System -- Ecosystem-Based Management: Moving from Concept to Practice -- From DPSIR the DAPSI(W)R(M) Emerges… a Butterfly – ‘protecting the natural stuff and delivering the human stuff’ -- The Promise and Pitfalls of Ecosystem Services Classification and Valuation -- Approaches for Estimating the Supply of Ecosystem Services: Concepts for Ecosystem-Based Management in Coastal and Marine Environments -- The Final Ecosystem Goods & Services (FEGS) Approach: A Beneficiary-Centric Method to Support Ecosystem-Based Management -- Part III. Tools and Techniques -- Ecosystem-Based Management and Natural Capital Accounting -- Establishing a Common Framework for Strategic Communications in Ecosystem-Based Management and the Natural Science -- Prioritizing Stakeholders, Beneficiaries, and Environmental Attributes: A Tool for Ecosystem-Based Management -- Linkage Frameworks: An Exploration Tool for Complex Systems in Ecosystem-Based Management -- Projecting Changes to Coastal and Estuarine Ecosystem Goods and Services – Models and Tools -- An Integrated Multi-Model Decision Support Framework for Evaluating Ecosystem-Based Management Options for Coupled Human-Natural Systems -- Mathematical Modeling for Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM) and Ecosystem Goods and Services (EGS) Assessment -- The Ecosystem Services Gradient: A Descriptive Model for Identifying Levels of Meaningful Change -- Rapid Benefit Indicator Tools -- Part IV. Governance -- The Ecosystem Approach in International Marine Environmental Law and Governance -- Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM) and Ecosystem Services in EU Law, Policy and Governance -- Ecosystem Services in U.S. Environmental Law and Governance for the Ecosystem-Based Management Practitioner -- Unravelling the Relationship between Ecosystem-Based Management, Integrated Coastal Zone Management And Marine Spatial Planning -- Part V. Case Studies -- Models and Mapping Tools to Inform Resilience Planning After Disasters: A Case Study of Hurricane Sandy and Long Island Ecosystem Services -- Ecosystem-Based Management to Support Conservation and Restoration Efforts in the Danube Basin -- Combining Methods to Establish Potential Management Measures for Invasive Species Elodea nutallii in Lough Erne Northern Ireland -- Mitigating Negative Unintended Impacts on Biodiversity in the Natura 2000 Vouga Estuary (Ria de Aveiro, Portugal) -- Ecosystem-Based Management for More Effective and Equitable Marine Protected Areas: A Case Study on the Faial-Pico Channel Marine Protected Area, Azores -- Using Stakeholder Engagement, Translational Science and Decision Support Tools for Ecosystem-Based Management in the Florida Everglades -- Remediation to Restoration to Revitalization: Engaging Communities to Support Ecosystem-Based Management and Improve Human Wellbeing at Clean-up Sites -- Predicting Future Vegetated Landscapes Under Climate Change: Application of the Environmental Stratification Methodology to Protected Areas in the Lower Mekong Basin.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Geological history and transition of the biota of Lake Biwa -- 2. Biodiversity of Lake Biwa -- 3. Ecological changes in Lake Biwa -- 4. History of the relationship between people and Lake Biwa -- 5.The use of Lake Biwa and people’s lifestyle -- 6. Evolving issues toward improvement of Lake Biwa – Yodo river basin governance -- 7. Environmental conservation of Lake Biwa.

Description / Table of Contents: SECTION I. Natural and human environment of coastal ecosystems -- Chapter 1. Ecological modelling and conservation on the coasts of Mexico -- Chapter 2. SE Pacific: the ecosystem and its use along the Chilean and Peruvian coast -- SECTION II. Marine ecosystem models in the South East Pacific coast -- Chapter 3. Modelling the Northern Humboldt Current Ecosystem; from winds to predators -- Chapter 4. Marine ecosystem models in the South Pacific coast -- Chapter 5. Keystone Species Complexes and macroscopic properties for improving ecosystem-based conservation practices in kelp forest along the north-central Chilean coast -- Chapter 6. Exploring alternative management policies for benthic ecological systems of northern Chile (SE Pacific) -- SECTION III. Central Pacific, Caribbean and Atlantic coastal ecosystem models -- Chapter 7. How much biomass must remain at the sea after fishing to conserve ecosystem -- functioning? The case of the Monterey sardine in the Gulf of California, Mexico -- Chapter 8. Dynamic and spatial model of the coral reef of Banco Chinchorro Biosphere Reserve (Caribbean Sea) for assessment harvest scenarios: short-term responses -- Chapter 9. Ecological role of sharks assessed by Ecopath models -- SECTION IV. System-based conservation and management: conclusions -- Chapter 10. Graph theory in food webs: uses and applications for conservation of marine ecosystems -- Chapter 11. Modelling aim the conservation of coastal marine ecosystem in Latin America.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 - Ecosystem services as a tool for decision-making in Patagonia -- Chapter 2- Assessment of provisioning ecosystem services in terrestrial ecosystems of Santa Cruz province, Argentina -- Chapter 3 - Grazing management and provision of ecosystem services in Patagonian arid rangelands -- Chapter 4 - Synergies and trade-offs among ecosystem services and biodiversity in different forest types inside and off-reserve in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina -- Chapter 5 - Shrubland management in northwestern Patagonia: an evaluation of its short-term effects on multiple ecosystem services -- Chapter 6 - Silvopastoral systems in northern Argentine-Chilean Andean Patagonia: Ecosystem services provision in a complex territory -- Chapter 7 - Ecosystem services values of the northwestern Patagonian natural grasslands -- Chapter 8 - The ecosystem services provided by peatlands in Patagonia -- Chapter 9 - Restoration for provision of ecosystem services in Patagonia-Aysén, Chile -- Chapter 10 - The North American beaver invasion and the impact over the ecosystem services in the Tierra del Fuego archipelago -- Chapter 11 - Social links for a nexus approach from an ecosystem services perspective in Central-East Patagonia -- Chapter 12 - Salmon farming: is it possible to relate its impact to the waste remediation ecosystem service? -- Chapter 13 - Using the ecosystem services approach to understand the distributional effects of marine protected areas in the Chilean Patagonia -- Chapter 14 - Socio-cultural valuation of ecosystem services in Southern Patagonia, Argentina -- Chapter 15 - Looking beyond ecosystem services supply: co-production and access barriers in marine ecosystems of the Chilean Patagonia -- Chapter 16 - Ecosystem services and human well-being: a comparison of two Patagonian social-ecological systems -- Chapter 17 - Urban Planning In Arid Northern Patagonia Cities To Maximize Local Ecosystem Services Provision -- Chapter 18 - Land size, native forests and ecosystem services inequalities in the rural Chilean Patagonia -- Chapter 19 - Imaginaries, transformations and resistances in Patagonian territories from a socio-ecological perspective -- Chapter 20 - The challenges of implementing ecosystem services in the Argentinean and Chilean Patagonia -- Chapter 21 - Natural capital and local employment in Argentine Patagonia -- Chapter 22 - Ecosystem services in Patagonia: a synthesis and future directions. .

Description / Table of Contents: Habitat: Sunlit Rocky Grounds -- Habitat: Shady Rocky Grounds -- Habitat: Dark Caves -- Habitat: Intertidal Zone -- Habitat: Sandy Grounds -- Habitat: Seagrass -- Habitat: Muddy Grounds -- Habitat: Open Waters -- Humans and the Sea.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction: The Reality of Insect Declines -- Chapter 2. The Problems of Interpreting Changes -- Chapter 3. Assessing and Understanding Insect Diversity -- Chapter 4. Improving Understanding of Insect Diversity -- Chapter 5. Drivers of Decline -- Chapter 6. Insect Conservation Need in the Southern Hemisphere -- Chapter 7. Levels of Concern and Approach -- Chapter 8. Defining and Countering Threats -- Chapter 9. Facilitating Conservation Progress -- Chapter 10. A Future for Australia’s Insects.

Description / Table of Contents: The Ecology of Plant Litter Decomposition in Stream Ecosystems: An Overview -- Multi-scale Biophysical Factors Driving Plant Litter Dynamics in Streams -- Stoichiometry of Plant Litter Decomposition in Stream Ecosystems -- Global Patterns of Plant Litter Decomposition in Streams -- Plant Litter Decomposition in Intermittent Rivers and Ephemeral Streams -- Plant Litter Decomposition in Terrestrial Ecosystems Compared to Streams -- Biodiversity and Plant Litter Decomposition in Streams -- The Role of Key Plant Species on Litter Decomposition in Streams: Alder as Experimental Model -- Linking Microbial Decomposer Diversity to Plant Litter Decomposition and Associated Processes in Streams -- The Role of Macro Invertebrates on Plant Litter Decomposition in Streams -- The role of Microscopically Small Invertebrates in Plant Litter Decomposition in Streams -- Individual and Interacting Effects of Elevated CO2, Warming, and Hydrologic Intensification on Plant Litter Decomposition in Streams -- Causes and Consequences of Changes in Riparian Vegetation for Plant Litter Decomposition Throughout River Networks -- Effects of Exotic Tree Plantations on Plant Litter Decomposition in Streams -- Salt Modulates Plant Litter Decomposition in Stream Ecosystems -- Pathways, Mechanisms and Consequences of Nutrient-stimulated Plant Litter Decomposition in Streams -- How Toxicants Influence Plant Litter Decomposition in Streams -- Effects of Engineered Nanoparticles on Plant Litter Decomposition in Streams -- The Construction of Plant Litter Decomposition Curves -- Design and Analysis of Laboratory Experiments on Aquatic Plant Litter Decomposition -- Plant Litter Decomposition as a Tool for Stream Ecosystem Assessment -- Plant Litter Decomposition as a Contributor to Stream Ecosystem Service Provision.

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: 1. Introduction to Rangeland Wildlife Ecology and Conservation -- Part I Rangeland Ecosystems and Processes -- 2. Rangelands of Western North America -- 3. A History of North American Rangelands -- 4. Western Rangeland Livestock Production Systems and Grazing Management -- 5. Manipulation of Rangeland Wildlife Habitats -- 6. Role and Management of Fire in Rangelands -- 7. Water is Life: Importance and Management of Riparian Areas for Rangeland Wildlife -- 8. Rangeland Biodiversity -- Part II Species Accounts -- 9. Prairie Grouse -- 10. Sage-Grouse -- 11. Quails -- 12. Rangeland Songbirds -- 13. Wetland Birds of Rangelands -- 14. Avian Predators in Rangelands -- 15. Burrowing Rodents -- 16. Mesocarnivores of Western Rangelands -- 17. Black-tailed and Mule Deer -- 18. White-tailed Deer -- 19. Pronghorn -- 20. Elk -- 21. Feral Equids -- 22. Mountain Ungulates -- 23. American Bison -- 24. Large Carnivores -- 25. Amphibians and Reptiles -- 26. Insects in Grassland Ecosystems -- Part III Social-Ecological Considerations -- 27. Wildlife, Rural Communities, and the Rangeland Livelihoods they Share: Opportunities in a Diverse Economies Approach -- 28. Living with Predators: A 20-year Case Study in the Blackfoot River Watershed of Montana -- 29. A Perspective on Rangeland and Wildlife Disciplines: Similarities Over Differences -- 30. Future of Rangeland Wildlife in North America.

Description / Table of Contents: 1- Basic concepts of ecology applied on the neotropic ecosystems -- 2 - Natural resources and sustainable development in Peru -- 3 - Classification of the Peruvian Ecosystems -- 4 - Peruvian ecosystems geography -- 5 - Biodiversity and endemism of the Andes -- 6 - Ecological communities, populations and metapopulations -- 7 - Succession and change of the ecosystems -- 8 - Biodiversity of the Amazonia Basin -- 9 - Peruvian protected natural areas -- 10 - The paramo ecosystems -- 11 - The Humboldt National Forest -- 12 - The Northwest Biosphere Reserve -- 13 - Urban ecosystems and development -- 14 - Climate changes -- 15 - Traditional land-use systems and agrobiodiversity in Peru -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Vegetation of Las Yungas (Serranías de Zapla, Jujuy, Argentina): Subtropical Mountain Forest -- General Features of Serranías de Zapla Multiple Use Ecology Reserve -- Bioclimatology -- Geobotany of Serranías de Zapla Multiple Use Ecology Reserve: Flora and Vegetation -- Biodiversity Analysis: A Geobotanic Interpretation -- Final Remarks.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Navigating Scientific Literature -- Chapter 3: The Scientific Method in Environmental Science -- Chapter 4: Establishing Cause-Effect Connections -- Chapter 5: Critical Thinking -- Chapter 6: Systems Thinking -- Chapter 7: Interdisciplinary Frameworks -- Chapter 8: Socio-ecological systems: The Human Connection -- Chapter 9: Working Across Scales: Time -- Chapter 10: Working Across Scales: Space -- Chapter 11: Thinking Outside the Box -- Chapter 12: Translating Science: communicating like a professional -- Chapter 13: Ecological Justice.

Description / Table of Contents: Socio-economic and Eco-biological Dimensions in Resource Use and Conservation: Prologue -- Climate Change impacts and implications: an Indian Perspective -- Local Socio-economic dynamics shaping forest ecosystems in Central Himalayas -- Forests resources of Jharkhand, Eastern India: Socio-economic and bio-ecological perspectives -- Traditional Agroforestry Systems of Northeast India -- Studies on Diversity of Macrofungi In the Tropical Moist Sal Forest of Kamrup District, Assam, India -- Exploring synergistic inter linkages among three ecological issues in the aquatic environment -- Carbon Sequestration Potential of trees in Kuvempu University campus forest area, Western Ghats, Karnataka -- Impact of Weather Shock on Food Insecurity: A Study on India -- Livelihood Strategies and Agricultural Practices In Khonoma Village of Nagaland In India: Observations From Field Study -- Socio-economic and Eco-biological Dimensions in Resource Use and Conservation: Epilogue.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 -- The construction and destruction of successful agricultural lands: case study of viticultural areas in Northern Mexico. Chapter 2 -- Pastoralism and achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: a missing piece of the puzzle. Chapter 3 -- Trends in the use of groundwater in dry lands of Mexico: case of a complex urbanized socio -- ecosystem of the Chihuahua desert. Chapter 4 -- The socio -- ecological systems approach to research the integrated aquifer management in an agricultural dryland in Mexico. Chapter 5 -- Assessment of climate change impact on drought and flood regime using climatological data derived from GLDAS -- 1, GLDAS -- 2, and MERRA -- 2 over semi -- arid zones of northern Mexico: analysis of temporal patterns of precipitation. Chapter 6 -- Understanding Drylands with a transdisciplinary and participatory approach: participatory observatories and the case of RISZA. Chapter 7 -- Sustainable development Goals and drylands. Chapter 8 -- Conservation and Development in the Mapimi Biosphere: a transdisciplinary and participatory project to understand climate change adaptation. Chapter 9 -- Education for sustainable development (ESD): expert net as promoter of transdisciplinarity through the SDGs. Chapter 10 -- The forced modernization of the Altiplano: disruption of the ecosystem function of the dryland zones in San Luis Potosí, Mexico. Chapter 11 -- Sustainable development in modern times: forgotten native communities in northwestern México. Chapter 12 -- Looking at the past to face the challenges for sustainable development in drylands: the protection of the biocultural heritage in the Tehuacán -- Cuicatlán Biosphere Reserve. Chapter 13 -- The Agadir Platform: a tripartite transatlantic cooperation to achieve sustainable Dryland. Chapter 14 -- The Atlas Workshops of Agdz, Morocco: a model region for a scientific -- artistic dialogue. Chapter 15 -- Drylands, aridification and land governance in Latin America: a regional geospatial perspective. Chapter 16 -- Vulnerability to the effects of climate change: coastal watersheds of arid Mexico. Chapter 17 -- Desert experts through time: traditional hunter -- gatherers from Northern Mexico and its implications for resource management and governance. Chapter 18 -- Governing drylands through Environmental Mainstreaming: how to cope with natural resources scarcity and climate change.

Description / Table of Contents: Foreword -- Chapter 1. History of canopy precipitation partitioning -- Chapter 2. Measurement of canopy interception -- Chapter 3. Measurement of throughfall -- Chapter 4. Measurement of stemflow -- Chapter 5. Residence time of precipitation entrained as throughfall and stemflow -- Chapter 6. Dissolved organic matter -- Chapter 7. Dissolved inorganic solutes -- Chapter 8. Isotopic composition -- Chapter 9. Particulate matter (including microbes) -- Chapter 10. Modelling of precipitation partitioning -- Chapter 11. Modelling of canopy exchange -- Chapter 12. Differences among precipitation types (Rain, fog, snow, rime) -- Chapter 13. Differences between plant functional types -- Chapter 14. Differences with stand age and management -- Chapter 15. Global patterns in precipitation partitioning -- Chapter 16. Relevance of precipitation partitioning to the global climate system -- Chapter 17. Precipitation recycling -- Chapter 18. Arboreal epiphytes and hemiparasites -- Chapter 19. Treehole ecosystems -- Chapter 20. Soil erosion -- Chapter 21. Soil physicochemical properties -- Chapter 22. Soil microbial community structure and function -- Chapter 23. Streams -- Chapter 24. Soil and groundwater -- Chapter 25. Reflections & future directions: Research opportunities in canopy precipitation partitioning -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction. Reclaiming and rewilding river cities for outdoor recreation -- Cities and their waterways -- With rivers to the sea: Ecological restoration of rivers and estuaries and nature-based activities -- Behind good ecological status, the quest to reconquer water territories -- Planning and designing facilities that enhance rivers and encourage the development of tourist and recreational spaces: urban promenades -- Outdoor leisure activities at odds with the city. Arcachon Bay and the Massif des Calanques -- “On the conquest of wild nature” ... but what is meant by ‘nature’? -- The Darsena di Milano (Italy): ‘restoration’ of an urban artificial aquatic environment between citizens' hopes and municipal projects -- Grenoble, the river city facing the mountains (End 19th century-1930s) -- The role and significance of the recreational reconquest of port spaces: Rouen (France), reinvention at the neck of the estuary -- Recreational Activities, Economic and Territorial Development: Caen (France) in the Reconquest of its River? -- Bordeaux’s playful and sporty maritime life: a revolution of venues and activities.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter1: Managing Carbon Cycle Linkage to Livelihood in HKH Region -- Chapter2: Climate Change Mitigation and Pastoral Livelihood in the Hindu Kush Himalaya Region: Research Focuses, Opportunities and Challenges -- Chapter3: Tracking of Vegetation Carbon Dynamics from 2001 to 2016 by MODIS GPP in HKH region -- Chapter4: Livelihood and Carbon Management by Indigenous People in Southern Himalayas -- Chapter5: Effects of Different Grassland Management Patterns on Soil Properties on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau -- Chapter6: Carbon Management of the Livestock Industry in the HKH Region -- Chapter7: Wetlands as a Carbon Sink: Insight into the Himalayan Region -- Chapter8: Milk and Dung Production by Yaks (Poephagus grunniens): Important Products for the Livelihood of the Herders and for Carbon Recycling on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau -- Chapter9: Interactive Mechanism of Service Function of Ecosystems and the Effect of Climate Change to the Service Function of Ecosystem in Alpine Grassland of Tibetan Plateau -- Chapter10: Prospects of Biochar for Carbon Sequestration and Livelihood Improvement in the Tibetan Grasslands -- Chapter11: Optimizing the Alpine Grazing System to Improve Carbon Management and Livelihood for Tibetan Herders -- Chapter12: Promoting Artificial Grasslands to Improve Carbon Sequestration and Livelihood of Herders -- Chapter13: Prospects for REDD+ Financing in Promoting Forest Sustainable Management in HKH -- Chapter14: Designing Water Resource Use for Poverty Reduction in the HKH Region: Institutional and Policy Perspectives -- Chapter15: Indigenous Practice in Agro-pastoralism and Carbon Management from a Gender Perspective: A Case from Nepal -- Chapter16: Adaptation by Herders on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau in Response to Climate Change and Policy Reforms: the Implications for Carbon Sequestration and Livelihoods -- Chapter17: Developing Linkages for Carbon Sequestration, Livelihoods and Ecosystem Service Provision in Mountain Landscapes--Challenges and Opportunities in the Himalaya Hindu Kush (HKH) Region -- Chapter18: Experience for Future Good Practice and Policy of Combined Carbon Management and Livelihood in HKH Region.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter1. Introduction: An Overview of Biogeochemical Cycle of Estuarine System -- Chapter2. Geological set up of east coast of India -- Chapter3. Aquatic biogeochemistry of the estuarine and coastal waters of the Bay of Bengal: Impact of physical forcing and extreme atmospheric events -- Chapter4. Carbon dynamics of the estuaries along the east coast of India -- Chapter5. A systematic review of biogeochemistry of Mahanadi river estuary: Insights and future research direction -- Chapter6. Mercury resistant marine bacterial population in relation to abiotic variables at Bay of Bengal, India -- Chapter7. Persistent organic pollutants in the coastal and estuarine regions adjoining the Indian periphery of the Bay of Bengal. Chapter8. Characterizing the human health risk along with the bioaccumulation of heavy metals in the aquatic biota in the east coastal waters of the Indian peninsula -- Chapter9. Geo-statistical analysis of suspended particulate matter along the north-western coastal waters of Bay of Bengal -- Chapter10. Multiple facets of aquatic pollution in the estuarine and continental shelf waters along the east coast of India -- Chapter11. Nutrient cycling and seasonal dynamics of primary production in near shore waters of east coast of India -- Chapter12. Microzooplankton in estuaries, mangroves and lagoons of east coast of India -- Chapter13. Influence of physical processes on nutrient dynamics and phytoplankton in the coastal Bay of Bengal -- Chapter14. A review of estuarine CDOM dynamics of east coast of India Influenced by hydrographical forcing -- Chapter15. The Indian Sundarbans: biogeochemical dynamics and anthropogenic impacts.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1-Covid-19 And The Environment -- Chapter 2-Impact Of Covid-19 Lockdown On Air Quality -- Chapter 3-Impact Of Covid-19 Lockdown On Marine And Estuarine Water Quality -- Chapter 4-Impact Of Covid-19 Lockdown On Coastal Biodiversity -- Chapter 5-Impact Of Covid-19 On Livelihoods Of The Lower Gangetic Delta.

Description / Table of Contents: Basics of Atmospheric Measurement Techniques -- In-situ Measurement Techniques -- Remote Sensing Techniques (Ground-Based) -- Remote Sensing Techniques (Space- and Aircraft-Based) -- Complex Measurements - Methods and Applications -- Measurements Networks.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Historical implementation of the Hula Drainage and followed "Hula Project" -- Chapter 2. Regional Geographical and geological system structure -- Chapter 3. Meteorology: Climate change: air temperature, precipitation, dryness and desertification trends -- Chapter 4. Hydrology: Hydrological System structure: Head waters. Valley Canals (efore and after "Hula Project, agricultural development, Agmon-Hula, River Discharge, Runoff, Subterranean flows, Ground water Table, the impact of seasonal and multi-annual fluctuations of climate change on Hula Valley water balance -- Chapter 5. Nutrients: Water quality in River discharges, Hula Valley canals, and underground flows; the impact of Hula Valley on Nutrient inputs into Lake Knneret through Jordan River, Seasonal and long term fluctuations, the impact of climate change on nutrients dynamic -- Chapter 6. Agricultural management in the Hula valley: Crops diversity, irrigation policy, prevention of soil deterioration and linkage with touristic function maintenance -- Chapter 7. The Peat- Soil Convention: Conceptual and practical implementation: prevention of soil deterioration by moisture level control -- Chapter 8. The Agmon-Hula system: The impact of Agmon-Hula system on Nutrients removal from the Kinneret loads, Agmon water and nutrient balances, plants and birds distribution -- Chapter 9. Eco-tourism and ecological management of the the Hula Project: The Crane Case: Tourism-agricultural linkage -- Chapter 10. Conclusions and future perspectives of management.

Description / Table of Contents: Digitization of Financial Markets: A Literature Review on White-collar crimes -- Intervention of Chatbots –Recruitment Made Easy!!!! -- Affecting attributes to use food ordering app by young consumers -- Exploring influencing factors for m payment apps uses in the Indian context -- Modelling Enablers of Customer-Centricity in Convenience Food Retail -- Emotion AI: Integrating Emotional Intelligence with Artificial Intelligence in the digital workplace -- Factors affecting online grocery shopping in Indian culture -- A Study on Role of Digital Technologies & Employee Experience -- Driving employee engagement in today’s dynamic workplace: A literature review -- Is Online Teaching Learning Process An Effective Tool For Academic Advancement.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. The Food Security, Biodiversity, and Climate Nexus -- 2. Impacts of Climate Change on Biodiversity Resources, Especially on Forests and Wildlife Distribution -- 3. Mangrove Ecosystems within a Changing Climate: Threats and Opportunities -- 4. Realizing Food Security in Saline Environments in a Changing Climate: Mitigation Technologies -- 5. Land Use Land Cover Change in Salt Range Wetlands Complex of Pakistan in Response to Climate Change -- 6. Therapeutic Floras and Unindustrialized Behavior to Combat the Hunger: An Implication to Populace Health -- 7. Fostering Health Security through Biodiversity: A Case Study from Ogun and Lagos States, Nigeria -- 8. Impacts of Climate Change on Biodiversity in Pakistan: Current Challenges and Policy Recommendations -- 9. Socio-Economic Implications of Crop Raiding Around Pendjari Biosphere Reserve, Northern Benin -- 10. Burgeoning Desert Locust Population as Transboundary Plant Pest: A Momentous Threat to Regional Food Security -- 11. Climate Change Impacts on Mountain Ecosystems and Food Security in Pakistan -- 12. Climate Change and Disappearing Habitats: The Case of Majuli Island in Northeast India -- 13. Sustainable Agriculture and Plant Diseases to Ensure Global Food Security – An Epidemiological Perspective -- 14. Community-Based Adaptation in Drylands Associated to Crop Biodiversity: A Viable Pathways to Foster Climate and Food Resilience -- 15. Non-timber Forest Products Income: What Implications for Social Safety Nets in Afaka Forest Reserve Communities, Kaduna-Nigeria? -- 16. Human Activities as Potential Risk to the Sustenance of Barawa Forest Reserve in Katsina State, Northern Nigeria -- 17. Potential of Baobab (Adansonia digitata L.) in Adaptation to the Environmental Change -- 18. Managing the Soil Erosion through the Use of Polyacrylamide: An Empirical Study.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter1. The use of remote sensing to enhance biodiversity monitoring & detection—a critical challenge for the 21st century. - Chapter2. Applying Remote Sensing to Biodiversity Science -- Chapter3. Scaling Functional Traits from Leaves to Canopies -- Chapter4. The Laegeren Site: An Augmented Forest Laboratory -- Chapter5. Lessons Learned from Spectranomics: Wet Tropical Forests -- Chapter6. Remote Sensing for Early, Detailed, and Accurate Detection of Forest Disturbance and Decline for Protection of Biodiversity -- Chapter7. Linking Leaf Spectra to the Plant Tree of Life -- Chapter8. Linking Foliar Traits to Belowground Processes -- Chapter9. Linking Foliar Traits to Belowground Processes -- Chapter9. Using Remote Sensing for Modeling and Monitoring Species Distributions -- Chapter10. Remote Sensing of Geodiversity as a Link to Biodiversity -- Chapter11. Predicting Patterns of Plant Diversity and Endemism in the Tropics Using Remote Sensing Data: A Study Case From the Brazilian Atlantic Forest -- Chapter12. Remote Detection of Invasive Alien Species -- Chapter13. A Range of Earth Observation Techniques for Assessing Plant Diversity -- Chapter14. How the Optical Properties of Leaves Modify the Absorption and Scattering of Energy and Enhance Leaf Functionality -- Chapter15. Spectral Field Campaigns: Planning and Data Collection -- Chapter16. Consideration of Scale in Remote Sensing of Biodiversity -- Chapter17. Integrating Biodiversity, Remote Sensing, and Auxiliary Information for the Study of Ecosystem Functioning and Conservation at Large Spatial Scales -- Chapter18. Essential Biodiversity Variables: Integrating in Situ Observations and Remote Sensing Through Modeling -- Chapter19. Prospects and pitfalls for spectroscopic remote sensing of biodiversity at the global scale -- Chapter20. Epilogue – Towards a Global Biodiversity Monitoring System. .

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I. Historical perspectives -- Chapter 2. Cities in the Water: Waterscape and Evolution of Urban Civilization in Southern Mesopotamia as seen from Tell Zurghul, Iraq (Davide Nadali) -- Chapter 3. Reed-Swamps in the Sumerian Material Culture: Archaeological, Archaeobotanical and Experimental Insights from the Abu Tbeirah Excavations (Licia Romano, Alessandra Celant, Maria Virginia Montorfani, Franco D'Agostino) -- Chapter 4. Human Ecology of the Marshes (Ariel I. Ahram) -- Chapter 5. Role of women in ancient Mesopotamia and the southern marshes of Iraq: a comparative account (Laith A. Jawad) -- Part II. Environmental factors -- Chapter 6. Physical and chemical characters of Mesopotamian marshes: a short review (Bahram K. Maulood and Fikrat M. Hassan) -- Chapter 7. Hydrologic structures in the Tigris Euphrates Bas and their impact on the vitality of the Marshes (Toon Bijnens) -- Chapter 8. Importance of Hydrological and Hydrogeological Studies in Wetlands: Examples from Turkey (Melis Somay-Altas) -- Chapter 9. Use of Multispectral and Hyperspectral Satellite Imagery for Monitoring Water Bodies and Wetlands (Mahdi Hasanlou and Seyd Teymoor Seydi) -- Chapter 10. Usage of Satellite technology in monitoring the wetlands of Turkey, Tigris and Euphrates Watershed (Gordana Kaplan, Zehra Yigit Avdan, Ugur Avdan) -- Part III. Geology -- Chapter 11. Sedimentology and Mineralogy of Quaternary Sediments of Marshes, South of Iraq (Badir N. Albadran) -- Part IV. Major biotope -- Chapter 12. Phytoplankton and Primary Production in Iraqi marshes (Bahram K. Maulood and Fikrat M. Hassan) -- Chapter 13. Distribution patterns, diversity centres and priorities for conservation of Iranian true aquatic plants (Ahmadreza Mehrabian) -- Chapter 14. Compiled checklist of aquatic invertebrates of the southern marshes of Iraq (Laith A. Jawad) -- Chapter 15. The Indian shad Tenualosa ilisha (Hamilton, 1822) in the southern marshes of Iraq: a revision and evaluation of a compiled data (Laith A. Jawad) -- Chapter 16. The presence of Gambusia fish in the southern marshes of Iraq: bad or good (Laith A. Jawad) -- Chapter 17. Checklist of freshwater fishes of southwestern wetlands of Iran (Hamid Reza Esmaeili) -- Chapter 18. Checklist of fishes of the Caspian Sea basin: Land of Wetlands (Hamid Reza Esmaeili, Keyvan Abbasi) -- Chapter 19. The ornithological importance of the southern marshes of Iraq (Mudhafar A. Salim, Salwan A. Abed, and Richard F. Porter) -- Part V. Biodiversity aspects -- Chapter 20. Northern Gulf Marine Biodiversity in Relevance to the River Discharge (Faiza Al-Yamani, Igor Polikarpov, Maria Saburova) -- Chapter 21. A possible threat to the fish biodiversity in the southern marshes of Iraq: a mini review (Laith A. Jawad) -- Chapter 22. Biotic homogenisation: a process that happening in the southern marshes of Iraq (Laith A. Jawad) -- Part VI. Natural resources -- Chapter 23. Fish, fishing methods and Fisheries of the southern marshes of Iraq (Laith A. Jawad) -- Chapter 24. The artisanal fishers in the southern marshes of Iraq and the traditional ecological knowledge (Laith A. Jawad) -- Part VII. The marshes and human health -- Chapter 25. Fish consumption of mothers and their children in fishermen society in the marsh areas (Laith A. Jawad) -- Chapter 26. Ingestion of fish bones: clinical cases from the marsh areas of Iraq (Laith A. Jawad) -- Part VIII. Environmental challenges -- Chapter 27. The status of pollution in the southern marshes of Iraq: A short review (Nader A. Salman, Hamid T. Al-Saad, Faris J. Al-Imarah) -- Chapter 28. The effects of man-made noise on the fishes in the marshes of Iraq (Laith A. Jawad) -- Chapter 29. Heavy metals in wetlands in Turkey (Onur Can Türker and Jan Vymazal) -- Chapter 30. Locals’ awareness of ecotourism in the southern marshes of Iraq (Laith A. Jawad) -- Chapter 31. The effects of thermal pollution on the aquatic life in the southern marshes of Iraq (Laith A. Jawad) -- Part IX. Conservation -- Chapter 32. What ecological principles required for a proposed establishment and management of national parks in the southern marshes of Iraq (Laith A. Jawad) -- Chapter 33. The possible difficulties and outcomes of the biodiversity conservation of the southern marshes of Iraq (Laith A. Jawad) -- Chapter 34. Co-Management scheme to protect the southern marshes of Iraq: a proposal (Laith A. Jawad) -- Chapter 35. Eradication as a method to manage the non-native fish in the marsh environment: a proposal (Laith A. Jawad) -- Chapter 36. Freshwater commercial bycatch in the southern marshes of Iraq: the unexploited aquatic wealth and understated conservation problem (Laith A. Jawad) -- Part X. Socio-economic aspects -- Chapter 37. Ornamental fish farming: a proposal for a successful small scale aqua business project in the southern marshes of Iraq (Laith A. Jawad) -- Chapter 38. Migration of youth to the big cities from the southern marshes of Iraq: solutions to keep locals with an upgrading for their skills and livelihood (Laith A. Jawad) -- Chapter 39. The daily life of the marsh Arab of the southern marshes of Iraq through a camera lens (Laith A. Jawad) -- Chapter 40. Socio-economic status comparison of fishermen community in two marsh areas in southern Iraq (Laith A. Jawad).

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1-Introduction -- Chapter 2-Historical perspectives of the wetlands with special reference to geomorphic evolution of East Kolkata Wetlands -- Chapter 3-Underlying ecological principles for the functioning of Wetland Ecosystems -- Chapter 4-Basics of Remote Sensing Techniques applicable in the aquatic freshwater system: Classificatory Approaches of East Kolkata Wetlands -- Chapter 5-Biodiversity of East Kolkata wetlands: Concept of biodiversity -- Chapter 6-Ecosystem services and values of Wetlands (East Kolkata Wetlands). Chapter 7-Seasonal Dynamics of Physico-Chemical Parameters of Soil and Water -- Chapter 8-Threats and pollution of wetlands: Special reference to East Kolkata Wetland (E.K.W) -- Chapter 9-Biomonitoring and Bioremediation -- Chapter 10-Sustainable conservation strategy (Waste Water Recycling) -- Chapter 11-Conclusion.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction - Ponds of Indian Sundarban as an important socio-ecological systems -- Assessment of Pond water quality and its impact on health and local livelihood in the Indian Sundarban -- Role of Fe2+ on the enhancement of Phytoplankton Community in pond system of Indian Sundarban -- Role of controlled lime treatment on the productivity of pond ecosystem. .

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 - Introduction -- Chapter 2 - Conventional fisheries management and the need of the ecosystem approach -- Chapter 3 - Ecosystem trophic structure and dynamics: basic concepts Chapter 4 - Fisheries within the ecosystem context: the production, surplus production and balanced harvest -- Chapter 5 -Holistic indicators: theoretical basis -- Chapter 6 - Resilience -- Chapter 7 - Reference Points: Stock-based BRP vs. ecosystem(holistic)-based BRP -- Chapter 8 - Managing fisheries under an holistic approach -- Chapter 9 - Adaptability as management policy -- Chapter 10 - Selected study cases -- Chapter 11- Holistic approach and management practice.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Freezing of lakes -- Structure and properties of lake ice -- Thermodynamics of Seasonal lake ice -- Mechanics of lake ice -- Proglacial lakes -- Lake Water Body in the Ice Season -- Ice-Covered Lakes Environment -- Lake ice Climatology -- Future of frozen lakes -- Annex: Ice Properties and Useful Formulae -- References -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I: Ecosystem Services Basics -- Chapter 1. Overview of the ecosystem services concept -- Part II: Ecosystem Services of Slovakia -- Chapter 2. Methodology of national ES assessment -- Chapter 3. Provisioning ecosystems services -- Chapter 4. Regulatory ecosystem services and supporting ecosystem functions -- Chapter 5. Cultural ecosystems services -- Part III: Synthesis -- Chapter 6. Synthesis of ecosystem services assessment in Slovakia.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Biodiversity in the Gulf of Guinea Oceanic Islands: A Synthesis -- Chapter 2. Physical Geography of the Gulf of Guinea Oceanic Islands -- Chapter 3. Classification, Distribution and Biodiversity of Terrestrial Ecosystems in the Gulf of Guinea Oceanic Islands -- Chapter 4. Territory, Economy and Demographic Growth in São Tomé and Príncipe: Anthropogenic Changes in the Environment -- Chapter 5. The History of Biological Research in the Gulf of Guinea Oceanic Islands -- Chapter 6. Biogeography and Evolution in the Oceanic Islands of the Gulf of Guinea -- Chapter 7. Species Ecology in the Gulf of Guinea Oceanic Islands: Distribution, Habitat Preferences, Assemblages and Interactions -- Chapter 8. Fungi of São Tomé and Príncipe: Basidiomycete Mushrooms and Allies -- Chapter 9. The Bryophyte Flora of São Tomé and Príncipe (Gulf of Guinea): Past, Present and Future -- Chapter 10. Diversity of the Vascular Plants of the Gulf of Guinea Oceanic Islands -- Chapter 11. A Checklist of the Arachnids From the Gulf of Guinea Islands (Excluding Ticks and Mites) -- Chapter 12. The Beetles (Coleoptera) of Príncipe, São Tomé and Annobón -- Chapter 13. Butterflies and Skippers (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) of the Gulf of Guinea Oceanic Islands -- Chapter 14. Dragonflies and Damselflies (Odonata) of São Tomé, Príncipe, and Annobón -- Chapter 15. Diversity and Distribution of the Arthropod Vectors of the Gulf of Guinea Oceanic Islands -- Chapter 16. Terrestrial Mollusca of the Gulf of Guinea Oceanic Islands -- Chapter 17. The Fishes of the Gulf of Guinea Oceanic Islands -- Chapter 18. The Amphibians of the Gulf of Guinea Oceanic Islands -- Chapter 19. The Terrestrial Reptiles of the Gulf of Guinea Oceanic Islands -- Chapter 20. The Sea Turtles of São Tomé and Príncipe: Diversity, Distribution and Conservation Status -- Chapter 21. The Avifauna of the Gulf of Guinea Oceanic Islands -- Chapter 22. Current Knowledge and Conservation of the Wild Mammals of the Gulf of Guinea Oceanic Islands -- Chapter 23. Cetaceans of São Tomé and Príncipe -- Chapter 24. Biodiversity Conservation in the Gulf of Guinea Oceanic Islands: Recent Progress, Ongoing Challenges, and Future Directions -- Chapter 25. Environmental Education in São Tomé and Príncipe: the Challenges of Owning a Unique Biodiversity -- Chapter 26. A Thriving Future for the Gulf of Guinea Oceanic Islands.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Water Development, Consumptive Water Uses, and Great Salt Lake -- Chapter 2:Climate Change and Great Salt Lake -- Chapter 3: Relationships between Humans and Great Salt Lake: Dynamics of Change -- Chapter 4: Microbialites of Great Salt Lake -- Chapter 5: Unexpected complexity at salinity saturation: microbial diversity of the north arm of Great Salt Lake -- Chapter 6: Invertebrates and phytoplankton: is salinity the driving factor? -- Chapter 7: Great Salt Lake Artemia: Ecosystem Functions and Services with a Global Reach -- Chapter 8: Importance of Great Salt Lake to Pelagic Birds: Eared Grebes, Phalaropes, Gulls, Ducks, and White Pelicans -- Chapter 9: Great Salt Lake Shorebirds, Their Habitats and Food Base -- Chapter 10: American White Pelicans of Gunnison Island, Great Salt Lake, Utah -- Chapter 11: Amphibians and Reptiles of Antelope Island, Great Salt Lake, Utah -- Chapter 12: Shoreline Plants of Great Salt Lake -- Chapter 13: Invasive plants of Great Salt Lake wetlands: what, where, how, and why? -- Chapter 14: Mercury Bioaccumulation and Biomagnification in Great Salt Lake Ecosystems -- Chapter 15: The Rozel Point Tar Seeps and Their Impact on the Local Biology -- Chapter 16: Great Salt Lake as an astrobiology analogue for ancient Martian hypersaline aqueous systems.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I: Introduction And Context -- Chapter 1: Introduction And Context -- Part II: Case Studies -- Chapter 2: Kenya Case Study One -- Chapter 3: Guatemala Case Study -- Chapter 4: Ghana Case Study One -- Chapter 5: Pacific Island Case Study -- Chapter 6: Saudi Arabia Case Study -- Chapter 7: Philippines Case Study One -- Chapter 8: Kenya Case Study Two -- Chapter 9: Tanzania Case Study -- Chapter 10: Indonesia Case Study -- Chapter 11: Panama Case Study -- Chapter 12: Philippines Case Study Two -- Chapter 13: Bangladesh Case Study -- Chapter 14: Ghana Case Study Two -- Chapter 15: Ecuador Case Study -- Chapter 16: Thailand Case Study -- Chapter 17: Peru Case Study -- Part III: Evaluation And Synopsis -- Chapter 18: Evaluation And Synopsis.

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. Fundamentals towards Understanding Global Vegetation -- Chapter 2. Zonal Vegetation of the Tropical Zone with Year-Round Rain -- Chapter 3. Zonal Vegetation of the Tropical Zone with Summer Rain -- Chapter 4. Tropical Azonal Vegetation -- Chapter 5. Vegetation of the Tropical High Mountains -- Chapter 6. Zonal Vegetation of the Tropical-Subtropical Dry Zone -- Chapter 7. Zonal Vegetation of the Subtropical (Warm-Temperate) Zone with Year-Round Rain -- Chapter 8. Zonal Vegetation of the Subtropical (Warm-Temperate) Zone with Winter Rain -- Chapter 9. Temperate Azonal Vegetation -- Chapter 10. Vegetation of the Temperate High Mountains -- Chapter 11. Zonal Vegetation of the Humid Nemoral (Cool-Temperate) Zone -- Chapter 12. Zonal Vegetation of the Dry Nemoral (Cool-Temperate) Zone -- Chapter 13. Vegetation of the Boreal (Cold-Temperate) Zone -- Chapter 14. Vegetation of the Polar Zone.

Description / Table of Contents: Part 1. Litter dynamics: chapter 1. Litter Input (Arturo Elosegi & Jesús Pozo) -- Chapter 2. Leaf Retention (Arturo Elosegi) -- chapter 3. Manipulating Litter Retention in Streams (Michael Dobson) -- chapter 4. Coarse Benthic Organic Matter (Jesús Pozo & Arturo Elosegi) -- chapter5. Leaching (Felix Bärlocher) -- Chapter 6. Leaf Mass Loss Estimated by the Litter-Bag Technique (Felix Bärlocher) -- Chapter7. Determining Litter Mass Loss by the Plant Tagging Approach (Kevin A. Kuehn & Mark O. Gessner) -- Chapter 8. Wood Decomposition (Arturo Elosegi, Maite Arroita & Libe Solagaistua) -- Chapter9. Decomposition of Fine Particulate Organic Matter (Yoshimura Chihiro) -- Chapter10. Coarse Particulate Organic Matter Budgets (Jesús Pozo & Jon Molinero) -- Part 2. Chemical and Physical Leaf Properties. Chapter11. Total Phosphorus, Nitrogen, and Carbon in Leaf Litter (Mogens R. Flindt, Ana I. Lillebø, Javier Pérez & Verónica Ferreira) -- Chapter12. Total Protein (Mark O. Baerlocher) -- Chapter13. Free Amino Acids (Shawn D. Mansfield & Mark O. Baerlocher) -- chapter14. Determination of Total Carbohydrates (Shawn D. Mansfield) -- chapter15. Determination of Soluble Carbohydrates (Letitia da Ros, Faride Unda, Shawn D. Mansfield) -- Chapter16. Total Lipids (Mark O. Gessner & Paul T. M. Neumann) -- Chapter17. Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids in Decomposing Leaf Litter (Eric Von Elert) -- Chapter18. Total Phenolics (Felix Bärlocher & Manuel A.S. Graça) -- Chapter19. Radial Diffusion Assay for Tannins (Manuel A.S. Graça & Felix Bärlocher) -- Chapter20. Acid Butanol Assay to Determine Bulk Concentrations of Condensed Tannins (Mark O. Gessner & Daniel Steiner) -- Chapter21. Lignin and Cellulose (Mark O. Gessner) -- Chapter22. Physical Litter Properties: Leaf Toughness and Tensile Strength (Manuel A.S. Graça & Martin Zimmer) -- Part 3. Microbial Decomposers. Chapter23. Techniques for Handling Ingoldian Fungi (Enrique Descals) -- Chapter24. Maintenance of Aquatic Hyphomycete Cultures (Ludmila Marvanová) -- Chapter 25. An Illustrated Key to the Common Temperate Species of Aquatic Hyphomycetes (Vladislav Gulis, Ludmila Marvanová & Enrique Descals) -- Chapter26. Sporulation by Aquatic Hyphomycetes (Felix Bärlocher) -- Chapter 27. Ergosterol as a Measure of Fungal Biomass (Mark O. Gessner) -- Chapter 28. Fungal Growth Rates and Production (Keller Suberkropp, Mark O. Gessner & Kevin A. Kuehn) -- Chapter 29. Bacterial Abundance and Biomass Determination in Plant Litter by Epifluorescence Microscopy (Nanna Buesing & Mark O. Gessner) -- Chapter 30. Growth and Production of Litter-Associated Bacteria (Nanna Buesing, Mark O. Gessner & Kevin A. Kuehn) -- Chapter 31. Isolation of Cellulose-Degrading Bacteria (Jürgen Marxsen) -- Chapter 32. ATP as a Measure of Microbial Biomass (Manuela Abelho) -- Chapter 33. Respiration of Litter-Associated Microbes and Invertebrates (Manuel A.S. Graça & Manuela Abelho) -- Part 4. Molecular Microbial Community Analyses. Chapter34. Terminal Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (T-Rflp) to Estimate Fungal Diversity (Liliya G. Nikolcheva & Felix Bärlocher) -- Chapter 35. Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis (DGGE) to Estimate Fungal Diversity (Liliya G. Nikolcheva & Felix Bärlocher) -- Chapter36. Quantitative Real-Time PCR (qPCR) to Estimate Molecular Fungal Abundance (Christiane Baschien & J. Steffen C. Carl) -- Chapter 37. Metabarcoding of Litter-associated Fungi and Bacteria (Sofia Duarte, Christian Wurzbacher & Sahadevan Seena) -- Chapter 38. Identifying Active Members of Litter Fungal Communities by Precursor rRNA (Martina Štursová & Petr Baldrian) -- Chapter 39. Gene Expression Analysis of Litter-Associated Fungi Using RNA-Seq (Elizabeth C. Bourne, Paul R. Johnston, Elisabeth Funk & Michael T. Monaghan) -- Chapter 40. Metaproteomics of Litter-associated Fungi (Katharina M. Keiblinger & Katharina Riedel) -- Part 5. Enzymatic Capabilities. Chapter 41. Extractellular Fungal Hydrolytic Enzyme Activity (Shawn D. Mansfield) -- chapter 42. Cellulases (Martin Zimmer) -- Chapter 43. Viscosimetric Determination of Endocellulase Activity (Björn Hendel & Jürgen Marxsen) -- Chapter 44. Fluorometric Determination of The Activity of β-Glucosidase and other Extracellular Hydrolytic Enzymes (Björn Hendel & Jürgen Marxsen) -- Chapter 45. Pectin-degrading Enzymes: Polygalacturonase and Pectin Lyase (Keller Suberkropp) -- chapter 46. Lignin-degrading Enzymes: Phenoloxidase and Peroxidase (Björn Hendel, Robert L. Sinsabaugh & Jürgen Marxsen) -- Chapter 47. Phenol Oxidation (Martin Zimmer) -- Chapter 48. Proteinase Activity: Azocoll and Thin-layer Enzyme Assay (Manuel A.S. Graça & Felix Bärlocher) -- Part 6. Litter Consumers. Chapter 49. Processing of Aquatic Invertebrates Colonizing Decomposing Litter (John S. Richardson) -- chapter 50. Identifying Stream Invertebrates as Plant Litter Consumers (Luz Boyero, Richard G. Pearson, Ricardo J. Albariño, Marcos Callisto, Francisco Correa-Araneda, Andrea C. Encalada, Marcelo Moretti, Alonso Ramírez, April Sparkman, Christopher M. Swan, Catherine M. Yule & Manuel A.S. Graça) -- chapter 51. Shredder Feeding and Growth Rates (Manuel A.S. Graça & José M. González) -- chapter 52. Feeding Preferences (Cristina Canhoto, Manuel A.S. Graça & Felix Bärlocher) -- chapter 53. Energy Budget of Shredders (Manuel A.S. Graça) -- chapter 54. The Role of Shredders in Litter Dynamics at Stream Scale (José M. González & Manuel A.S. Graça) -- Part 7. Litter Manipulations. Chapter 55. Manipulation of Leaf Litter Stoichiometry (Julio Arce-Funck, Vincent Felten, Michael Danger) -- Chapter 56. Isotopic Labelling of Leaf-litter Nitrogen (Bernd Zeller, Severine Bienaimé & Etienne Dambrine) -- Chapter 57. Decomposition and Consumption Tablets (DECOTABSs) (Gea H. van Der Lee, Ellard R. Hunting, J. Arie Vonk & Michiel H.S. Kraak) -- chapter 58. Inoculation of Leaf Litter with Aquatic Hyphomycetes (Eric Chauvet) -- Part 8. Data Analyses. Chapter 59. A Primer for Statistical Analysis (Felix Bärlocher) -- Chapter 60. Determining Temperature-normalized Decomposition Rates (Mark O. Gessner & Frank Peeters) -- Chapter 61. Biodiversity Analysis (Felix Bärlocher) -- Chapter 62. A Bioinformatics Primer for the Analysis of Illumina MiSeq Data of Litter-associated Fungi and Bacteria (Sahadevan Seena, Sofia Duarte & Christian Wurzbacher) -- Chapter 63. A Primer for Meta-Analysis (Verónica Ferreira & Felix Bärlocher).

Description / Table of Contents: Executive Summary -- Overview and Purposes -- Key Message -- Chapter 1. State Of Forest And Rangeland Soils Research In The United States (Dan Binkley, Daniel D. Richter, Richard V. Pouyat, and Linda Geiser) -- Chapter 2. Soil Carbon (Erin Berryman, Jeff Hatten, Deborah S. Page-Dumroese, Kate Heckman, David D’Amore, Jennifer Puttere, Michael SanClements, Stephanie Connolly, Charles H. (Hobie) Perry, and Grant Domke) -- Chapter 3. Soils And Water (Mary Beth Adams, Vince Archer, Scott Bailey, Kevin McGuire, Chelcy Miniat, Dan Neary, Toby O’Geen, Pete Robichaud, and Mike Strobel) -- Chapter 4. Biogeochemical Cycling In Forest And Rangeland Soils Of The United States (Lindsey E. Rustad, Jennifer Knoepp, Daniel D. Richter, and Andrew Scott) -- Chapter 5. Forest And Rangeland Soil Biodiversity (Stephanie A. Yarwood, Elizabeth Bach, Matt Busse, Jane E. Smith, Mac A. Callaham, Jr., Chih-Han Chang, Taniya Roy Chowdhury, and Steven D. Warren) -- Chapter 6. Wetland And Hydric Soils (Carl Trettin, Randall Kolka, Anne Marsh, Sheel Bansal, Eric Lilleskov, Patrick Megonigal, Marla Stelk, Graeme Lockaby, David D’Amore, Richard MacKenzie, Brian Tangen, Rodney Chimner, and James Gries) -- Chapter 7. Urban Soils (Richard Pouyat, Susan Day, Sally Brown, Kirsten Schwarz, Richard Shaw, Katalin Szlavecz, Tara Trammell, and Ian Yesilonis) -- Chapter 8. Soil Management And Restoration (Mary Williams, Cara Farr, Deborah Page-Dumroese, Stephanie Connolly, and Eunice Padley) -- Chapter 9. Soil Mapping, Monitoring, And Assessment (Mark J. Kimsey, Larry E. Laing, Sarah Anderson, Jeff Bruggink, Steve Campbell, David Diamond, Grant Domke, James Gries, Scott Holub, Greg Nowacki, Deborah Page-Dumroese, Charles H. (Hobie) Perry, Lindsey Rustad, Kyle Stephens, and Robert Vaughan) -- Chapter 10. Challenges And Opportunities (Linda Geiser, Toral Patel-Weynand, Anne Marsh, Korena Mafune, and Daniel Vogt) -- Appendix A: Regional Summaries -- Appendix B: Soils Networks And Resources -- Appendix C: Summary Of Research Questions.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I: Conceptualizing human-nature interactions -- Chapter 1. Conceptualizing human-nature interactions – an overview -- Chapter 2. Environmental Values and Nature’s Contributions to People: Towards methodological pluralism in evaluation of sustainable ecosystem services -- Chapter 3. Disentangling trade-offs between the state of coastal ecosystems with human well-being and activities as a strategy addressing sustainable tourism -- Chapter 4. From human-nature dualism towards more integration in socio-ecosystems studies -- Chapter 5. A network approach to Green Infrastructure: how to enhance ecosystem services provision? -- Chapter 6. Transformations of urban coastal nature(s): Meanings and paradoxes of Blue Urbanism and nature-based solutions for climate adaptation in Southeast Asia -- Part II: Mountain systems -- Chapter 7. Values of mountain landscapes: Insights about the Blue Mountains National Park, Australia from Twitter -- Chapter 8. Earth observations of human-nature interactions from a cultural ecosystem service perspective -- Chapter 9. Gendered Values, Roles, and Challenges for Sustainable Provision of Forest-based Ecosystem Services in Nepal -- Chapter 10. Environmental [in]equity: Accessibility to green spaces in a rapidly urbanizing mountain-city -- Chapter 11. Ecosystem services and sustainable development in the European Alps: spatial patterns and mountain-lowland relationships -- Chapter 12. Human-nature relationships for the Flathead Wild and Scenic River System: Analyzing diversity, synergies, and tensions in a mountainous region of Montana, USA -- Chapter 13. Resilience and sustainability of the Maloti-Drakensberg mountain system: a case study on the upper uThukela catchment -- Chapter 14. Invasive alien plants in the montane areas of South Africa: impacts and management options -- Part III: Urban systems -- Chapter 15. Ecosystem service flows across the rural-urban spectrum -- Chapter 16. A typology for green infrastructure planning to enhance multifunctionality incorporating peri-urban agricultural land -- Chapter 17. Urban green spaces in a post-apartheid city: challenges and opportunities for nature-based solutions -- Chapter 18. Green infrastructure and ecosystem services within spatial structure of city – examples from Poznań, Poland -- Chapter 19. Accessibility to and fragmentation of urban green infrastructure: importance for adaptation to climate change -- Chapter 20. Social Demand for Urban Wilderness in Purgatory -- Chapter 21. The Role of Allotment Gardens for Connecting Nature and People -- Chapter 22. Green spaces and their social functions: specific challenges in urban spaces of arrival -- Chapter 23. The link between urban green space planning tools and distributive, procedural and recognition justice -- Part IV: Coastal-marine systems -- Chapter 24. Can local knowledge of Small-scale fishers be used to monitor and assess changes in marine ecosystems in a European context? -- Chapter 25. Marine ecological democracy: participatory marine planning in Indigenous marine areas in Chile -- Chapter 26. The Socio-Ecological Dimension of Ocean Multi-Use -- Chapter 27. Localizing the Sustainable Development Goals for marine and coastal management in Norway: A venture overdue -- Chapter 28. Coastal-Marine ecosystem accounting to support Integrated Coastal Zone Management -- Chapter 29. Exposure of coastal ecosystem services to natural hazards in the Bangladesh coast -- Chapter 30. Adaptations to climate variability in fisheries and aquaculture social-ecological systems in the Northern Humboldt Current Ecosystem: challenges and solutions -- Chapter 31. Socio-Ecological transformations in coastal wetlands: an approach from the south-central zone of Chile -- Chapter 32. A Nature-based Solution for coastal foredune restoration: The Case Study of Maghery, County Donegal, Ireland.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Multiple Perspectives on Eurasian Drylands -- Dry Land Belt of Northern Eurasia: Contemporary Environmental Changes -- Recent Land Surface Dynamics in Greater Central Asia -- Quantifying the Anthropogenic Signature in Drylands of Central Asia and Its Impact on Water Scarcity and Dust Emissions -- The Complexity and Challenges of Central Asia’s Water-Energy-Food Systems -- Assessment of the influences of dust storms on cotton production in Tajikistan -- Population and Urban Dynamics in Drylands of China -- Hydrology and Erosion Risk Parameters for Grasslands in Central Asia -- A Conceptual Framework for Ecosystem Stewardship Based on Landscape Dynamics: Case Studies From Kazakhstan and Mongolia -- Social-Ecological Systems across the Asian Drylands Belt (ADB) -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I: Agronomy -- Chapter 1. No-till Farming Systems for Sustainable Agriculture: An Overview -- Chapter 2. Managing Crop Rotations in No-till Farming Systems -- Chapter 3. Challenges and Opportunities in Managing Crop Residue for Multiple Benefits -- Chapter 4. Managing Cover Crops in No-till Farming Systems -- Chapter 5. Challenges and Opportunities in Fertilizer Placement in No-till Farming Systems -- Chapter 6. Selecting and Managing No-till Planters and Controlled Traffic Farming in Extensive Grain Production Systems -- Chapter 7. Challenges and Opportunities for Weed Management in No-till Farming Systems -- Chapter 8. Challenges and Opportunities in Managing Pests in No-till Farming Systems -- Chapter 9. Challenges and Opportunities in Managing Diseases in No-till Farming Systems -- Chapter 10. Strategic Tillage for the Improvement of No-till Farming Systems -- Chapter 11. Developing Organic Minimum Tillage Farming Systems for Central and Northern European Conditions -- Part II: Soil Management -- Chapter 12. Controlling Soil Erosion using No-till Farming Systems -- Chapter 13. No-Till Farming Systems for Enhancing Soil Water Storage -- Chapter 14. Enhancing Soil Aggregation in No-till Farming Systems -- Chapter 15. Resilient and Dynamic Soil Biology -- Chapter 16. Earthworms in No-till: the key to Soil Biological Farming -- Chapter 17. Pesticide Retention, Degradation, and Transport Off-Farm -- Part III: Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation -- Chapter 18. No-till Farming Systems to Sequester Soil Carbon: Potential and Reality -- Chapter 19. No-till Farming Systems to Reduce Nitrous oxide Emissions and Increase Methane Uptake -- Chapter 20. Soil carbon Sequestration as an Elusive Climate Mitigation Tool -- Part IV: Economic and Social Impacts -- Chapter 21. Economic Assessment of No-till Farming Systems -- Chapter 22. Socioeconomic Impacts of Conservation Agriculture based Sustainable Intensification (CASI) with Particular Reference to South Asia -- Chapter 23. No-Till Farming Systems in Resource-Limited Contexts: Understanding Complex Adoption Behaviour and Implications for Policy -- Part V: Regional Strategies in No-till Farming Systems -- Chapter 24. Lessons Learnt from Long-Term Experiments on No-till Systems in Semi-Arid Regions -- Chapter 25. Lessons Learnt from Long-Term No-till Systems Regarding Soil Management in Humid Tropical and Subtropical Regions -- Chapter 26. No-Till Farming Systems in South Asia -- Chapter 27. No-till Farming Systems in Rain-fed Areas of China -- Chapter 28. No-till Farming Systems in Southern Africa -- Chapter 29. No-Till Farming Systems in Australia -- Chapter 30. No-till Farming Systems for Sustainable Agriculture in South America -- Chapter 31. No-till Farming Systems in Europe -- Chapter 32. No-Till Farming Systems in North America -- Chapter 33. No-Till Farming Systems in the Canadian Prairies -- Part VI: Perspectives -- Chapter 34. No-Till Farming Systems for Sustaining Soil Health -- Chapter 35. The Future of No-Till Farming Systems for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security.

Description / Table of Contents: Foreword -- Preface -- PART I: Evolution, genetics and distribution -- 1. Phylogenesis and evolution -- 2. Population genetics and genomics -- 3. Conservation and breeding -- 4 Biogeography and local adaptations -- 5. Mediterranean pines as invasive species -- PART II: Ecophysiology of Mediterranean pines: resistance to stress and perturbation -- 6. Physiological trade-offs under stress and perturbation -- 7. Carbon allocation dynamics under stress -- 8 -- Root systems under drought -- 9. Stress and tree mortality -- 10. Forest diseases affecting pines -- 11. Resistance to herbivorous insects -- PART III: Pine and mixed forest ecosystems under global climate change -- 12. Growth and vigor -- 13. Forest distribution resilience under climate change -- 14. Carbon and energy balance -- 15. Soil properties and biogeochemical functioning -- 16. Decomposition -- PART IV: Forest dynamics, biodiversity and biotic interactions -- 17. Dynamics of mixed pine-oak forests -- 18. Bird diversity -- 19 Soil micro- and macrofauna -- 20. Mycorhizae -- PART V: Forest fire ecology and management -- 21. Fire past present and future -- 22. Adaptations to fire -- 23. Post-fire soil erosion -- 24. The impact of grazing on understory fuel load -- 25. Post fire restoration -- 26. Predicting post-fire conifer regeneration in California -- 27. Remote sensing fire damage -- PART VI: Policy and Ecosystem services of Mediterranean pine and mixed forest ecosystems -- 28. Mediterranean forests and the United Nations sustainable development goals -- 29. Ecosystem services -- 30.Multi-disciplinary assessment of cultural ecosystem services supplied by Mediterranean pine and mixed forests -- PART VII: Afforestation and forest management policy -- 31. Dynamics and management of western Mediterranean pinewoods -- 32. From pine monoculture forests into sustainable mixed forest ecosystems -- 33. Forest policy in Israel -- 34. Water based forest management.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction of NFI and LULUCF -- Chapter 2. Definition and uncertainty of forests -- Chapter 3. Tree and its measurement -- Chapter 4. Design of sample plots methods -- Chapter 5. Forest statistics preparation and calculation -- Chapter 6. Remeasurement of sample plots -- Chapter 7. Remote sensing data and methods in NFI -- Chapter 8. Continuous NFI design of a sample plot -- Chapter 9. NFI as open data method -- Chapter 10. Analysis of forest dynamics with NFI data -- Chapter 11. Sustainable forestry analysis method based on sample plot data.

Description / Table of Contents: 1 -- Introduction to landscape ecology -- 2. Theories and models incorporated in the landscape ecology framework -- 3 Scaling patterns and processes across landscapes -- 4 Emerging processes in the landscape -- 5 Emerging patterns in the landscape -- 6 Principles of landscape dynamics -- 7 Principles for landscape conservation, management and design -- 8 Principles of soundscape ecology. - 9 Landscape economics and ecosystem services -- 10 Social dimension of the landscape -- 11 Sustainable landscapes -- 12 Climate changes across landscapes -- 13 Methods in landscape ecology. - 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Metrics in landscape ecology -- 13.3 The fractal geometry approach -- 13.4 Geographic Information Systems (GIS) -- 13.5 Remote sensing in landscape ecology -- 13.6 Global Positioning Systems (GPS) -- 13.7 Spatially Explicit Population Models (SEPM) to describe population patterns in a landscape.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Agro-biodiversity across the food chain -- 2. Emerging risks to plant health -- 3. Future-proofing Plants against Climate Change- A path to ensure Sustainable Food Systems -- 4. The role of Integrated Pest Management for sustainable food production: The soybean example -- 5. (Alternative approaches to pesticide use): Plant-derived pesticides -- 6. Antimicrobial use in animal food production -- 7. Impacts of environment-friendly unit operations on the functional properties of bee pollen -- 8. Microbiome applications for sustainable food systems -- 9. Healthier and sustainable food systems: integrating underutilized crops in a ‘Theory of Change Approach -- 10. Alternative proteins for food and feed.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction: Randall W. Myster -- 2. Dynamics of Andean Treeline Ecotones: Between Cloud Forest and Páramo Geocritical Tropes. Fausto O. Sarmiento -- 3. ANÁLISIS REGIONAL EN ECOSISTEMAS DE MONTAÑA EN COLOMBIA:Una mirada desde la funcionalidad del paisaje y los servicios ecosistémicos. Paola Isaacs-Cubides, Julián Díaz and Tobias Leyva-Pinto -- 4. Ecohydrology of Tropical Andean Cloud Forests. Conrado Tobon Martin -- 5. Litterfall in Andean forests: Quantity, composition, and environmental drivers. Wolfgang Wilcke -- 6. Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Ectomycorrhizas in the Andean Cloud Forest of South Ecuador. Ingeborg Haug, Sabrina Setaro, Juan Pablo Suárez -- 7. Nesting ecology of the Tucuman Amazon (Amazona tucumana) in the cloud forest of Northwestern Argentina. Luis Rivera and Natalia Politi -- 8. Adaptive strategies of frugivore bats to Andean cloud forests. Adriana Ruiz and Pascual J. Soriano -- 9. Diversification and dispersal of Neotropical fauna: Processes and patterns in Andean species diversity. Juan C. Garcia-Ramirez and Angela M. Mendoza-Henao -- 10. Mapping Hydrological Ecosystem Services and Impacts of Scenarios for Deforestation and Conservation of Lowland, Montane and Cloud-Affected Forests. Mark Mulligan -- 11. Randall W. Myster. Conclusions, synthesis and future directions.

Description / Table of Contents: Modelling and simulation of agricultural landscapes -- Challenges and perspectives for integrated landscape modelling to support sustainable land use management in agrolandscapes -- Application of ecosystem modelling methodology on rural areas of Crimea - Systematic approach -- Integral assessment of condition and sustainability of socio-ecological-economic systems -- The use of observation methods and model approaches for estimating regional crop evapotranspiration and yield in agro-landscapes -- Development of landscape-adaptive land use of the Upper Volga region based on geostatistical methods -- Modelling of the suitability of lands to the agrarian use and their resistance to negative processes -- A GIS-based model for the enhancement of rural landscapes: the case-study of Valdera - Tuscany (Italy) -- Models for describing landscape hydrochemical discharge in mountain countries -- Agent-based modelling of a simple synthetic rangeland ecosystem -- The use of multitemporal spectral information to improve the classification of agricultural crops in landscapes -- Global evaluation of the status and sustainability of terrestrial landscapes and water bodies -- Spatial Estimation of Estonian Forest Landscapes’ Soil Cover Humus Status: Methods, Model samples and Assessments -- Dynamics of soil organic matter in agricultural landscapes -- Model based assessment of nutrient load into water bodies from different landscape types -- Model-based estimation of irrigation water demand for different agricultural crops under climate change, presented for the Federal State of Brandenburg, Germany -- Forecasting scanning branches of the hysteresis soil water-retention capacity for calculation of precise irrigation rates in agrolandscapes using a mathematical model -- Estimation of Leaf Area Index (LAI) of Russian Forests Using a Mechanical Model and Forest Inventory Data -- Assessment approach of the spatial wheat cultivation risk for the main cereal cropping regions of Russia -- Model based forecasting winter wheat yields using landscape and climate data -- Actual and model-based assessment of Castor fiber populations for different reserves in the European part of Russia and their impact on ecosystems -- Modelling biodiversity and ecosystem services trade-offs in agricultural landscapes to support planning and policy-making -- Simulating the Effects of Agrochemicals and Other Risk-Bearing Management Measures on the Terrestrial Agrobiodiversity: the RISKMIN Approach -- LandCaRe-DSS – An interactive model-based decision support system for assessing the impacts of climate change on agriculture and agricultural landscapes -- A spatial analysis framework to assess responses of agricultural landscapes to climates and soils at regional scale -- Integrated modelling approach for land-use changes on different scales -- Assessment of soybeans crop management strategies using crop growth models for Central Brazil -- Estimation of Agro-landscape Productivity in Regional Scale using Dynamic Crop Models in a GIS Environment -- Landscape phenology modelling and decision support in Serbia.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: the Habitat and the Ecosystem -- Shallow Hardbottom of East Florida and the Caribbean and the Regional Shelf Setting -- Macroalgae and Cyanobacteria -- Invertebrates -- Fish Assemblages -- Marine Turtles -- Functional Ecological Attributes of Shallow Hardbottom -- Mitigating Shallow Hardbottom Impacts -- Literature Cited -- Appendices.

Description / Table of Contents: Dedication -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Acknowledgements -- Preface to the Second Edition -- 1. Rivers in the Anthropocene -- 2. Streamflow -- 3. Fluvial Geomorphology -- 4. Stream Chemistry -- 5. The Abiotic Environment -- 6. Primary Producers -- 7. Detrital Energy and the Decompposition of Organic Matter -- 8. Stream Microbial Ecology -- 9. Trophic Relationships -- 10. Species Interactions -- 11. Lotic Communities -- 12.Energy Flow and Nutrient Cycling in Aquatic Communities -- 13. Nutrient Dynamics -- 14. Carbon Dynamics and Stream Ecosystem Metabolism -- 15. How We Manage Rivers, And Why. .

Description / Table of Contents: Plant Evolution and Systematics 1982–2022: Changing Questions and Methods as Seen by a Participant -- Plants in Space: Novel Physiological Challenges and Adaptation Mechanisms -- Terrestrialization: The Conquest of Dry Land by Plants -- Legacies of Human Land Use Impacts in Central European Forests -- Global Forest Biodiversity: Current State, Trends, and Threats -- An Overview on Dendrochronology and Quantitative Wood Anatomy Studies of Conifers in Southern Siberia (Russia) -- Holobionts in the Plant Kingdom -- Evolution of Holobiont-Like Systems: From Individual to Composed Ecological and Global Units -- Plant Proteolysis in Development: Insights and Functions -- Experimental Evidence for Fruit Memory and Its Applications to Post-harvest Physiology and Technology: An Overview -- Movement of Aquatic Oxygenic Photosynthetic Organisms -- An Overview of the Ability to Capture Nutritional and Water resources through the Leaves and Roots of Epiphytic Bromeliads -- Phi Thickenings: Their History, Current Status and Role(s) in Mechanically Strengthening the Plant Root.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- An overview of the restoration and management of Chilika Lagoon: successful application of the Ramsar wise use guidelines -- Ecological characterization of Chilika: defining strategies and management needs for wise use -- Ecosystem services: implications for managing Chilika -- Sedimentologic, chemical, and isotopic constraints on the Anthropogenic influence on Chilika Lake, India -- Modelling of hydrodynamics and salinity characteristics in Chilika Lagoon -- Assessment of runoff and sediment yield from selected watersheds in the Western Catchment of the Chilika Lagoon -- Long-term analysis of water quality in Chilika Lagoon and application of bio-optical models for cyclone impact assessment -- Spatio-temporal variation in physicochemical parameters of water in the Chilika lagoon -- Geomorphology, land use/land cover and sedimentary environments of the Chilika Basin -- Spatiotemporal Assessment of phytoplankton communities in the Chilika lagoon -- Fish and fisheries of Chilika: post-restoration scenario -- Avifauna of Chilika, Odisha: assessment of spatial and temporal changes -- Biodiversity of benthic fauna in Chilika lagoon -- Microbial ecology of Chilika Lagoon -- Survey, characterization, ecology, and management of macrophytes in Chilika lagoon -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: PART 1: BACKGROUND -- Chapter 1: Biological invasions in South Africa: An overview -- Chapter 2: A brief, selective history of researchers and research initiatives related to biological invasions in South Africa -- PART 2: BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA -- Chapter 3: The biogeography of South African terrestrial plant invasions -- Chapter 4:Invasive alien aquatic plants in freshwater ecosystems -- Chapter 5: Terrestrial Vertebrate Invasions in South Africa -- Chapter 6: Alien freshwater fauna in South Africa -- Chapter 7: Alien terrestrial invertebrates in South Africa -- Chapter 8: Biological invasions in South Africa’s offshore sub-Antarctic territories -- Chapter 9: Coastal invasions: The South African context -- Chapter 10: Pathogens of vertebrate animals as invasive species: Insights from South Africa -- Chapter 11: Biological invasions in South Africa’s urban ecosystems: Patterns, processes, impacts and management -- PART 3: DRIVERS OF INVASION -- Chapter 12: South Africa’s pathways of introduction and dispersal and how they have changed over time -- Chapter 13: The role of environmental factors in promoting and limiting biological invasions in South Africa -- Chapter 14: Biotic interactions as mediators of biological invasions: Insights from South Africa -- PART 4: IMPACTS OF INVASION -- Chapter 15:Impacts of invasions on terrestrial water resources in South Africa -- Chapter 16:The impact of invasive alien plants on rangelands in South Africa -- Chapter 17: An evaluation of the impacts of alien species on biodiversity in South Africa using different methods -- PART 5: MANAGEMENT OF INVASIONS -- Chapter 18: Biological invasion policy and legislation development and implementation in South Africa -- Chapter 19: More than a century of biological control against invasive alien plants in South Africa: a synoptic view of what has been accomplished -- Chapter 20:Analysing the risks posed by biological invasions to South Africa -- Chapter 21:The extent and effectiveness of alien plant control projects in South Africa -- Chapter 22: Experience and lessons from alien and invasive animal control projects carried out in South Africa -- Chapter 23: Biological invasions and ecological restoration in South Africa -- Chapter 24: The social dimensions of biological invasions in South Africa -- Chapter 25: Education, training and capacity building in the field of biological invasions in South Africa -- PART 6: NEW INSIGHTS -- Chapter 26: South Africa as a donor of naturalized and invasive alien plants to other parts of the world -- Chapter 27: South Africa as a donor of alien animals -- Chapter 28: Knowing-doing continuum or knowing-doing gap? Transferring research results to managers of biological invasions in South Africa -- Chapter 29: Biological invasions as a component of South Africa’s global change research effort -- Chapter 30: South Africa’s Centre for Invasion Biology: An experiment in invasion science for society -- PART 7: THE WAY FORWARD -- Chapter 31:Potential futures of biological invasions in South Africa.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Part 1. Conceptual Framework -- Chapter 1. Introduction to the Phenomenon of Biological Invasions -- Chapter 2. Biological Invasions in the Anthropocene -- chapter 3. Transport and Introduction -- Chapter 4. Naturalisation -- Chapter 5. Range Expansion -- Chapter 6. Impacts on Health, Economy and Diversity -- Chapter 7. Ecological Impacts -- Part 2. Case Studies -- Chapter 8. European Rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) in Chile: The Human Dimension Behind a Biological Invasion -- Chapter 9. Invasive European Wild Rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) in Argentina: State of the Art and Prospects for Research -- Chapter 10. Wild Boar Invasion in Argentina and Chile: Ecology, Impacts and Distribution -- Chapter 11. Reconceiving the Biological Invasion of North American Beavers (Castor Canadensis) in Southern Patagonia as a Socio-ecological Problem: implications and opportunities for research and management -- Chapter 12. Invasion by a Carnivore: the case of american mink (neovison vison) in south america -- Chapter 13. Homogenization of the Freshwater Fish Fauna in Chile: analysing the ichthyogeographic provinces. References. .

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.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Regional context and maritime governance -- Chapter 3: Alboran Sea area climate and weather -- Chapter 4: The Oceanographic and climatic context -- Chapter 5: A Geological history for the Alboran Sea region -- Chapter 6: Seafloor morphology and processes in the Alboran Sea -- Chapter 7: The biogeochemical context of marine planktonic ecosystems -- Chapter 8: Seaweeds and seagrasses: the marine forests from the Alboran Sea -- Chapter 9: Benthic fauna of littoral and deep-sea habitats of the Alboran Sea: A hotspot of biodiversity -- Chapter 10: Invertebrates: the realm of diversity -- Chapter 11: Biogeographical and Macroecological context of the Alboran Sea -- Chapter 12: Biophysical processes determining the connectivity of the Alboran Sea fish populations -- Chapter 13: Evolving from fry fisheries to early life research on pelagic fish resources -- Chapter 14: Description of artisanal fisheries in northern Alboran Sea -- Chapter 15: Description of artisanal fisheries in southern Alboran Sea -- Chapter 16: Small pelagic resources: A historic perspective and current state of the resources -- Chapter 17: North Atlantic Oscillation effect on the biology and fisheries of tunas species in the Alboran Sea -- Chapter 18: Demersal Resources -- Chapter 19: The Blackspot seabream fishery in the Strait of Gibraltar: lessons and future perspectives of shared marine resource -- Chapter 20: Aquaculture in the Alboran Sea -- Chapter 21: Marine megafauna and charismatic vertebrate species -- Chapter 22: Fisheries economics and management under the impact of Human and varying marine environmental conditions in the Alboran Sea -- Chapter 23: A historical approach to living resources on the Spanish coasts from Alboran Sea between the 16th and 20th centuries -- Chapter 24: Sustainable development and Blue growth in the Alboran Sea: enabling ocean health and ecosystem services through ocean science and equitable governance -- Chapter 25: Marine Protected Areas and Key Biodiversity Areas of the Alboran Sea and adjacent areas.

Description / Table of Contents: Ecosystem Collapse and Climate Change: An Introduction -- PART I. Polar and Boreal Ecosystems -- Ecosystem Collapse on a Sub-Antarctic Island -- Permafrost Thaw in Northern Peatlands: Rapid Changes in Ecosystem and Landscape Functions -- Post-fire Recruitment Failure as a Driver of Forest to Non-forest Ecosystem Shifts in Boreal Regions -- A Paleo-perspective on Ecosystem Collapse in Boreal North America -- PART II. Temperate and Semi-arid Ecosystems -- The 2016 Tasmanian Wilderness Fires: Fire Regime Shifts and Climate Change in a Gondwanan Biogeographic Refugium -- Climate-Induced Global Forest Shifts due to Heatwave-Drought -- Extreme Events Trigger Terrestrial and Marine Ecosystem Collapses in the Southwestern USA and Southwestern Australia -- PART III. Tropical and Temperate Coastal Ecosystems -- Processes and Factors Driving Change in Mangrove Forests: An Evaluation Based on the Mass Dieback Event in Australia’s Gulf of Carpentaria -- Recurrent Mass-Bleaching and the Potential for Ecosystem Collapse on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef -- Sliding Toward the Collapse of Mediterranean Coastal Marine Rocky Ecosystems -- Marine Heatwave Drives Collapse of Kelp Forests in Western Australia -- Impact of Marine Heatwaves on Seagrass Ecosystems.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introducing moth variety and diversity -- Chapter 2: Moth ecology and conservation importance -- Chapter 3: Moth declines and the need for conservation -- Chapter 4: Causes for concern: habitat change as the major imposed threat to moths -- Chapter 5: Causes for concern: confounding threats to moths -- Chapter 6: Australia’s moths and their habitats -- Chapter 7: A closer focus: threats to Australia’s moths -- Chapter 8: Moth flagships in Australia: focus on single taxa -- Chapter 9: Conservation potential for Australia’s moths: focus on wider diversity -- Chapter 10: Bringing potential to practice: a future for Australia’s moths.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter. 1 -- Long-term hydrological research in the humid tropics -- Chapter. 2 -- The forests of the Danum Valley Conservation Area -- Chapter. 3 -- The Danum hydrology project: origins, aims, context -- Chapter. 4 -- The regional physiographical and land management context of the hydrology of Danum Valley -- Chapter. 5 -- Rainfall and its interception by the forest -- Chapter. 6 -- Overland flow -- Chapter. 7 -- Infiltration, soil water and pipeflow -- Chapter. 8 -- Origins of stream flow -- Chapter. 9 -- Sediment supply and movement on slopes -- Chapter. 10 -- Water, sediment and solutes in channels -- Chapter. 11 -- Periodicity of Processes (Impact of extreme events: floods and drought) -- Chapter. 12 -- The lessons from the natural forest -- Chapter. 13 -- The disturbance caused by logging -- Chapter. 14 -- Impact of logging on interception and soil water -- Chapter. 15 -- Changes to erosion rates and sediment yields during and after logging -- Chapter. 16 -- Logging, stream flow, stream chemistry and sediment transport -- Chapter. 17 -- Extreme events and the dynamics of logged catchments -- Chapter. 18 -- Conclusions on the impacts of logging at Danum -- Chapter. 19 -- Mitigating the effects of logging -- Chapter. 20 -- The significance of hydrological and geomorphological processes for lowland tropical rainforest ecology -- Chapter. 21 -- Conclusions from the Long-Term Ecological Research on hydrology at Danum.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Chapter 1. Background - management of forest for varying ecosystem services -- PART I: Forest environment of boreal north and forestry -- Chapter 2. Environmental conditions, site types, and climate change -- PART II: Structure and functioning of selected boreal trees -- Chapter 3. Selected tree species of importance in boreal north -- Chapter 4. Structure of selected trees -- Chapter 5. Regeneration biology of selected trees -- Chapter 6. Physiology, growth and acclimatizing of boreal trees to climate -- PART III: Long-term dynamics of boreal forest ecosystem -- Chapter 7. Successional dynamics of boreal forest ecosystem -- Chapter 8. Management vs ecosystem dynamics -- PART IV: Management strategies, regimes, and operations -- Chapter 9. Preparation of site for natural regeneration and planting in reforestation -- Chapter 10. Natural regeneration in management for regrowth -- Chapter 11. Planting in management for regrowth -- Chapter 12. Management of spacing in pre-commercial phase -- Chapter 13. Management of spacing and thinning in commercial phase -- Chapter 14. Fertilization in management of site fertility -- Chapter 15. Pruning of branches and management of timber quality -- PART V: Management of forest ecosystem for varying services -- Chapter 16. Management strategies for producing different goods and services -- Chapter 17. Dynamics of forest ecosystem vs ecosystem services -- Chapter 18. Risks for forestry under current and warming climate -- Chapter 19. Forest ecosystem services and management under climate change -- Chapter 20. Adaptive management – outlines of theories and practices -- Index -- Appendix: Units and conversions.

Description / Table of Contents: Chap 1. After all, what does GI mean -- Chap 2. Governing Green infrastructure -- Chap 3. Green infrastructure as a tool to build landscape planning and design -- Chap 4. Climate change -- Chap 5. Multiscalarity and green infrastructure planning -- Chap 6. Building green infrastructure guided by water -- Chap 7. Multifunctionality and green infrastructure planning -- Chap 8. Biodiversity and green infrastructure planning -- Chap 9. Social inclusion and green infrastructure planning -- Chap 10. Improving public health with green infrastructure -- Chap 11. Green infrastructure as art -- Chap 12. Green infrastructure as heritage -- Chap13. Building other landscapes renaturing cities.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I. Introduction and Description of Study Area -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Climate Changes Along the German Coast -- Chapter 3. Coastal Landscapes of the North Sea and the Baltic Sea -- Chapter 4. Geography and Study Sites -- Chapter 5. Climate and Weather Conditions Along the German Shores -- Chapter 6 -- Inundation Regimes of the German Coasts and the Impact of the Rising Sea Level -- Chapter 7. The Surface Salinity of the North Sea and Baltic Sea Area -- Chapter 8. Soils -- Part II. Historical and Future Changes of the Dune and Salt Marsh Fauna -- Chapter 9. General Aspects of Coastal Vegetation at the North Sea and the Baltic Sea -- Chapter 10. Predicting Plant Distribution Shifts -- Chapter 11. General Aspects of Coastal Carabid Beetle and Spider Fauna at the North Sea and the Baltic Sea -- Chapter 12. Changes of the Fauna of Digger Wasps and Bees (Hymenoptera, Aculeata) of the North Frisian Island of Sylt – Effects of Climate Change? -- Chapter 13. Historical Changes in the Carabid Beetle Fauna of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania -- Chapter 14. Distribution of Spiders and Carabid Beetles Along a Geographical Gradient -- Chapter 15. Predicting Carabid Beetle Distribution Shifts -- Part III. Experimental Assessments of the Effects of Climate Change on Habitats and Their Organisms -- Chapter 16. Field Experiment: Effects of Increased Temperature on a Tidalic Fluvisol -- Chapter 17. Field Experiment: Effects of Microclimate Modification on Soil Organisms and Aggregate Formation in Dune Sand -- Chapter 18. Expected Vegetation Dynamics in Salt Marshes at the North Sea Coast Under Changed Inundation Conditions as an Effect of Climate Change -- Chapter 19. Effects of Sedimentation and Erosion on the Development of Vegetation -- Chapter 20. Tide Simulation Experiment -- Chapter 21. Storm Surges as Natural Experiments -- Part IV. De-Embankments and Its Effects on the Vegetation and Fauna -- Chapter 22. De-embankments at the North Sea and the Baltic Sea Coasts -- Chapter 23. Salt Marsh Restoration in a Summer Polder at the Wursten Coast -- Chapter 24. Estimated Future Effects of the Sea Level Rise Exemplified by the Wursten Coast -- Chapter 25. Restoration of Salt Meadows at the Baltic Sea Coast: The De-Embankment Experiment at Karrendorf Meadows -- Part V. Synthesis and Conclusions -- Chapter 26. Expert System: Plants -- Chapter 27. Expert System: Spiders and Carabid Beetles. Chapter 28. Consequences of Climate Change for Biota of the Coastal Salt Marshes and Dunes: Synthesis, Final Conclusions, and Ideas of Compensation.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 Introduction -- PART 1: MODELLING -- Chapter 2 Statistical Modelling -- Chapter 3 Geostatistics -- Chapter 4 Crop and Soil Modelling -- Chapter 5 Pest and Disease Modelling -- Chapter 6 Adoption of Model-Based Practices in Precision Agriculture -- PART 2: ACADEMIC/STATE-OF-THE-ART -- Chapter 7 Water -- Chapter 8 Nitrogen -- Chapter 9 Pest Diseases -- Chapter 10 Data Assimilation/Fusion -- PART 3: CASE STUDIES -- Chapter 11 Potato Company McCain.-Chapter 12 Soil Essentials -- Chapter 13 Adapt-N -- Chapter 14 Granular -- Chapter 15 BASF /XARVIO -- Chapter 16 Watch It Grow Belgium -- Chapter 17 Akkerweb -- Chapter 18 Kubota -- Chapter 19 India TATA Consultancy -- Chapter 20 DACOM -- PART 4: SUMMARY AND OUTLOOK -- Chapter 21 Summary -- Chapter 22 Outlook.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter1. Montane grasslands: Biomass estimations using remote sensing techniques and knowledge gap in Africa -- Chapter2. Unravelling regional Geodiversity: a GRID-MAPPING Approach to QUANTIFY GEODIVERSITY in the uThukela District, KwaZulu-Natal -- Chapter3. Monitoring the wildfire activity and ecosystem response on Mt. Kilimanjaro using Earth Observation data and GIS -- Chapter4. Ecological Vulnerability Assessment to Grassland Fires in a Protected Mountainous Area Using Remote Sensing and GIS -- Chapter5. Natural hazards magnitude, vulnerability and recovery strategies in the Rwenzori Mountains, Southwestern Uganda -- Chapter6. Assessing the Vulnerability of the Eastern Africa Highlands’ Soils to Rainfall Erosivity -- Chapter7. Development of Lightning Hazard Map for Fire Danger Assessment over Mountainous Protected Area using Geospatial Technology -- Chapter8. Water resources monitoring over the Atlas Mountains in Morocco using satellite observations and Reanalysis data -- Chapter9. Evaluating Settlement Development Change, Pre, and Post-1994 in the Drakensberg Mountains of Afromontane Region, South Africa -- Chapter10. Digital Soil Mapping for hydropedological purposes of the Cathedral Peak research catchments, South Africa -- Chapter11. Effect of Climate Variability and Change on Land Suitability for Irish Potato Production in Kigezi Highlands of Uganda.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Blue Economy: An overview -- Chapter 2: Advancement of Science and Technology: Future prospect of Blue Economy -- Chapter 3: Marine Ecosystem Services: Viewing from a Sustainable Management Approach -- Chapter 4: Commerce and trade of marine-based industries in a blue economy -- Chapter 5: Role and Prospect of Marine biotechnology in a blue economy -- Chapter 6: Powering the Blue Economy: An Assessment of Marine Renewable Energies -- Chapter 7: Operationalizing of Ocean wealth : Contribution of Fisheries, Edible and Non-edible seafood and aquaculture -- Chapter 8: Desalinisation of ocean water: How far does it contribute to the blue economy -- Chapter 9: Ocean as a repository for waste: An Assessment -- Chapter 10: Role of Blue Carbon in the protection and restoration of marine ecosystems -- Chapter 11: Conservation and Protection of Marine Biodiversity: Assessing the role of blue economy -- Chapter 12: Multifacet role of mangroves in the blue economy and its assessment -- Chapter 13:Tourism and recreation: Valuing its role in the blue economy -- Chapter 14: Monitoring the Health of Blue Ecosystems -- Chapter 15: Climate Change and induced impact on Blue Economy -- Chapter 16: Coastal Urbanisation: Challenges towards a sustainable blue economy -- Chapter 17: Present Status of ocean and International maritime regulations -- Chapter 18: Issues in designing future marine policy in regard to oceans governance and integrated Ocean management.

Description / Table of Contents: Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter 1. The Australian coast: Introduction -- Chapter 2. Tropical Northern province -- Chapter 3. Northwest Division -- Chapter 4. Pilbara region. Chapter 5. Kimberley-Territory division -- Chapter 6. Kimberley region -- Chapter 7. West Northern Territory region -- Chapter 8. North Arnhem Land region -- Chapter 9. Gulf of Carpentaria division -- Chapter 10. East Arnhem Land region -- Chapter 11. Southern Gulf of Carpentaria region -- Chapter 12. Western Cape York Peninsula region -- Chapter 13. Northeast division -- Chapter 14. East Cape York Peninsula region -- Chapter 15. Central Queensland region -- Chapter 16. Southern temperate province -- Chapter 17. Southeast division -- Chapter 18. Central eastern region -- Chapter 19. Southern NSW region -- Chapter 20. Gippsland region -- Chapter 21. East Tasmania region -- Chapter 22. Great southern division -- Chapter 23. West Tasmania region -- Chapter 24. North Tasmania region -- Chapter 25. Central and west Victoria region -- Chapter 26. Southern South Australian region -- Chapter 27. South Australian gulfs region -- Chapter 28. Western Eyre Peninsula region -- Chapter 29. Nullabor region -- Chapter 30. Southern Western Australia region -- Chapter 31. Southwest division -- Chapter 32. Southwest Western Australia region -- Chapter 33. Central west Western Australia region -- Chapter 34. The Australian coast: review and overview -- References -- Appendices.